During the mid 1900s, the carriage house was still in its Historicism style of 1874, when the originally Classicist building was lowered, gained a pitched roof and a facade in the spirit of contemporary industrial (railway) architecture. In the 1960s, its desolate state necessitated a reconstruction project in order for it to be used for exhibition purposes. The task was entrusted to the State Institute for the Reconstruction of Heritage Towns and Buildings in Prague, under the leadership of the architect Josef Habětín. The carriage house was to regain its full-fledged storey with oblong windows and hipped roof which it lost during the afore-mentioned 19th century reconstruction.
However, in 1969, there were changes concerning the building's designer, use and appearance. The reconstruction project was carried out by František Čurda of the Regional Department for the Restoration and Maintenance of Monuments Náchod. The project drew inspiration from the original one but, due to the building's intended function as the Central Regional Archive, offices, a library and study had to be incorporated into the first floor. The south section of the building was dramatically transformed with a new staircase, lift, sanitary facilities, and even a transformer station. Changes to the facade were most evident in the use of integrated windows on the first floor.
This state of affairs, insensitive towards the original building – lasted until 2011, when its reconstruction was commenced within the programme for the revitalization of the chateau hill. The project, undertaken by the Prague design studio HŠH architekti, was a real challenge as, thanks to previous building interventions of no great value, it was possible to carry out comparatively radical changes (whilst retaining the building's original historical structure). The designers removed all the additional dividing walls and the staircase from the building. The ground floor, where the carriages used to stand, was adapted to serve as a cafeteria; whose bar, seating and toilet facilities were resolved by the fitting of specifically-shaped elements made of translucent glass-fibre, applied in projects by the same designers in the riding school (01-133b). The wooden gates in the arcade were replaced with sliding, glass “walls” which, when fully opened, enable the café to expand into the forecourt. There is space for offices and a co-working centre on the first floor, accessible through a single-flight staircase, “hidden” in the narrow rectangular mass of the glass-fibre.
Considerable changes were also made to the exterior; the architects modified the shape of the modern cornices which distorted the mass of the building and thus, lowered the overall height of the building; the facade was “cleansed” of all unoriginal decorative cornices and rendered with a bright lime stucco to merge it with the facades of neighbouring outbuildings.
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