Experimental house HK 60

 
Address: Markovická 658 ‒ 675, Slezské Předměstí, Hradec Králové
Public transport: Alessandria (BUS 12, 14, 19, 23, 25; TROLEJBUS 3, 6, 27)
GPS: 50.219961, 15.852663
Date: 1959– (P) 1959–1962 (R)
Architects: Jaroslav Škaloud , František Steiner
Builder: Pozemní stavby Hradec Králové n.p.
Investor: Krajský investorský útvar Hradec Králové
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Object Typology
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 Experimental houses were the first to be built as part of the construction of Silesian Suburbs – North. These dwellings were to test the newly developed HK 60 construction system, used by Jaroslav Škaloud and František Steiner, employees of Stavoprojekt in Hradec Králové. The system was to replace the brick panels used to build the earlier residential blocks along SNP Street and the T 02 B and T 03 B block panels. The structural span of the new system was unusually wide, 6.2m (while 6m was the earlier and later standard) and the mass of the ceiling panels was reduced by cylindrical cavities. The HK 60 system thus competed with the oldest Zlín G series, as well as the contemporary B60 system developed in Brno, the G-OS variant developed in Ostrava, and the G57-OL developed in Olomouc.

In Hradec Králové, this system was tested by building six four-storey buildings perpendicular to Markovická Street, with space for lawns and parks between them. Each building had three separate entrances. These first prefabricated buildings included different sized apartments, most often from two- to four bedroom-apartments but the rooms were usually very small. As witnesses attest, at first only cold water was introduced into the flats, which had to be heated; hot water was not introduced until after a few years. The apartments did not have balconies; balconies were only on the landings of the staircases on the mezzanines.
 
Between 1965 and 1966, taller, ten-storey buildings were built to test the improved system, HK 65, in 821–835 Třebechovická Street in Silesian Suburbs – South. The apartments were smaller but with larger rooms and had unified bathroom cores (type B3) and built-in wardrobes. With the HK 65 system, however, the development of the local construction system stopped and the construction of the prefabricated houses in Hradec Králové was dominated by the T 06 B series (developed by František Feistner’s group) and higher systems.
 
All the experimental buildings in Markovická Street underwent a smart reconstruction in the late 1990s, when their simple, late modernist character, mass and uniform expression were preserved. 
 
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Monument Preservation

No protection methods are recorded.

Literature

  • Jaroslav Škaloud, Hradecký panelový dům, Pozemní stavby, roč. VIII, 1960, č. 4, s. 193 

  • Vzniká prototyp celomontovaného domu, Pochodeň, roč. XLVIII, 1959, č. 91, 13. 11., s. 1 

  • Diskuse: K experimentálnímu projektování, Architektura ČSSR, roč. XIX, 1960, s. 559 

  • Karel Storch, Nová technika a architektura v Československu, Praha 1961, s. 27 

  • Jaroslav Pokorný, Nové typové podklady bytových domů, Architektura ČSSR, roč. XXI, 1962, s. 13–23 

  • Ladislav Zikmund-Lender, Struktura města v zeleni: Moderní architektura v Hradci Králové, Hradec Králové 2017, s. 243