Revitalization of the Breda Department Store

Breda will live if it continues to evolve. Its story is an open story of effective transformation and necessary self-reflection. It is a gradual journey into the light. The key ambition is to make this object, with which uses and visitors have an active and positive relationship, more functional and visible. Due to this reason, the transformation is aimed at a social value created by a shared and integrated public space of connected interior and exterior.

The process of Breda´s transformation is conditioned by not only physical but also psychological change. Changing an abandoned building into a functional organism requires several intervention phases and a specification of long-term and short-term ambitions. We understand this process to be a self-regenerating process of activation, building reconstruction programming and ‘filling it in’ with content. Hierarchy of the size of interventions to the existing building over time will be based on the specific requirements of further development.

Team: Sadovsky & Architects, GUTGUT, Marko & Placemakers, Michaela Hečková, Gábor Bindics, Martin Jenča, Peter Bohuš

Oliver Sadovský, Natália Okáliová, Marián Stanislav, Eelena Šoltésová, Juraj Izrael, Viliam Zajíček, The Anh Dang, Matúš Stieranka, Marek Trebuľa, Lukáš Kordík, Štefan Polakovič, Matúš Peklanský, Mark Mátis, Igor Marko, Simona Tóthová

Typology: Public architecture

Year: 2024

Location: Opava, Czechia

Status: Competition 3rd place