Faculty of Information Technology VUT

The area of the Carthusian monastery in Brno-Královo Pole, which was established in the second half of the 14th century, has been used since 1962 by the Brno University of Technology, and since 2002 by the newly created Faculty of Information Technology. A prerequisite for the development of the faculty in this area was the acquisition of unused land and buildings historically related to the former monastery estate and their mutual connection.
The new operational concept of the faculty is designed to ensure that the various parts of the faculty make use of both new and existing buildings as evenly as possible. Therefore, the departments, seminar, and teaching rooms are situated in both parts; in the historical area, there is also the dean's office, library, and a newly built lecture hall, while the new buildings mainly house computer laboratories and underground garages. The mutual connection of both parts is designed by an overhead bridge at the level of the second floor. At this level, the entire area is barrier-free connected.
In order to reconstruct and complete the historical buildings of the monastery, it was necessary first to build new teaching pavilions of classrooms and laboratories, which require advanced technical and technological equipment to create the necessary internal environment.
Classrooms and teachers' offices are located in the institute pavilion, a three-storey building that delineates the area of the former monastery estate from the busy city road. Primarily for this reason, the street façade of this building is designed as a multi-layered soundproof façade. Specialized teaching computer laboratories are concentrated in a laboratory complex, consisting of three two-storey pavilions with green atriums, which are mutually connected by an internal communication system.

The architectural solution emphasizes the appropriateness of the mass arrangement of the new buildings in relation to the historical objects. The main façade of the institute pavilion is composed of several layers, including plain transparent glazing of the soundproof wall and its dynamic partitioning, which is, however, materially subdued. In the second plane, the contemporary regular division of the building's façade is readable. The multi-layered nature of the architectural solution also supports the working lighting in the soundproof wall. However, the double façade, in addition to noise reduction, has a significant positive effect on the building's energy balance in both summer and winter periods. The principle of night ventilation is applied throughout the building. In each floor, there is a fan in the installation core, which draws in courtyard air and pushes it into the cavity floor of the floor. The air passes under the window sill into the room, where it is extracted through grilles with a control flap into the ceiling and then expelled outdoors through the ventilation unit. The unit is used for ventilating the garages during the day and for nighttime ventilation at night. Sunlit façades are further protected by external shading blinds and fabric rollo.
The material solution of the new buildings primarily uses raw concrete, glass, wood, natural linoleum, and stone.