Community Center Dřevák

The modern Sokol hall in Líbeznice is the result of a struggle between people’s natural desire to come together and a lack of funds. Rising above all obstacles is the idea of transforming isolated individuals into a community through a school gymnasium, a Sokol clubhouse, a soccer clubhouse, soccer locker rooms, a fitness center, a maternity center clubhouse, a café, a table tennis club, a music hall, a dance hall, a conference hall, a lecture hall, and a movie theater. In architectural terms, this is expressed by a wooden ark, stripped of technological complexities, situated in an open space in the center of the village, appropriately low, bright and airy inside, colorful, acoustically and structurally sound, with a design that evokes the scent, touch, and texture of wood, and austere on the outside. The combination of these abstract elements then resulted in a contemporary expression. The Líbeznice wooden shoe thus sailed into the cluster of village houses like Moby Dick, and at the same time as the glue, the linchpin, and the common denominator of the community—a competitor to dependence on superficial media, ready to take on the invisible tentacles of smartphones in a battle to bring the generation of computer kids back to the ball.