REGION

We Must Develop

Top-Quality Education

Two new buildings of the University of Ostrava will

be built near the Černá louka exhibition grounds by

a  consortium of two companies, the Ostrava branch

of IMOS Brno and Beskydská stavební from Třinec,

who won the competition. The premises, worth about

a  billion Czech crowns, will serve the sports and arts

departments.

“The project is another cornerstone in the history of the

university and of the city. We must develop top-quality

education even outside technical fields. This is why we

together have found a site between the Antonín Dvořák

Theatre and the river, which had long been neglected

despite its strategic location in the very centre of Ostrava.

The project will allow the university to create and run

new programmes of study,” says Jan Lata, Rector of the

University of Ostrava.

City Mayor Tomáš Macura adds, “Both the buildings will

serve the university as well as the public. Donating the

city estate therefore equals a smart investment which will

support the development of the city and all the region.

We will back-up the construction of the new buildings by

donations from the estate along with the construction of

an underground car park to be used by the public.”

The City of Ostrava donated the university estates worth

42 million CZK, and will build the underground car

park (situated under the Sports Department facilities)

worth 117 million CZK. The University of Ostrava was

granted nearly a billion Czech crowns from EU funds.

“This was an exceptional, once-in-a-decade opportunity

to win financing for the project, therefore we had to act

very quickly. Moreover, the grant requires only 5% of

our participation, which is extremely favourable to the

university,” clarifies Lata.

The winning designs came from Simona architectural

studio (architect Roman Kuba) for an atypical building

with an oval running track on the roof; while the other

building, the Cluster of Design and Art of the Faculty of

Fine Arts, was mostly designed by architect Kamil Mrva.

Text:

Petr Svoboda

Foto:

archiv Ostravská

univerzita

www.osu.cz

The new building of the Faculty of Fine Arts will be home

to the musical department with a number of dedicated

rehearsal rooms and classrooms, facilities for the Centre

of Digital Technologies and Design, a multimedia

classroom, a chamber hall and research lab for music

therapy. There will also be the DesignLab, a room to

hold exhibitions, and the MusicLab, a chamber music

rehearsal room.

The new buildings and their environment will connect

sportsgrounds with labs and classrooms furnished with

smart technologies. Modern instruction facilities will

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