Solidarity

why? The current grant programme for residential social services, through its restrictions on the number of beds and the range of associated facilities, encourages the development of smaller non-institutional complexes. The result is a typology resembling villas or small apartment buildings, which is however difficult to integrate into the stabilised urban structure in the context of expensive land and complex planning processes. A side effect of this grant policy is the emergence of residential social services on the peripheries of cities, where access to public transport, shops and everyday services is limited. In these newly developing areas, clients find it difficult to form ordinary neighbourly relationships or make use of everyday services. The goal of grant policy is sound deinstitutionalisation, integration of people into society. The side effect, however, may be a new form of segregation the emergence of small institutions on the outskirts of cities, cut off from urban life, services and neighbourly relationships. goal? To integrate social services into a new development on a vacant plot within a stabilised area of broader central Prague, as part of an academic project. The individual services are concentrated so that they can be used across the project, thereby encouraging encounters at several levels. Multiple layers of services and activities should support important social bonds, friendships and neighbourly relations without creating an institutional complex. The set of buildings consists primarily of housing responding to the requirements of accessibility, intergenerational living, material support and supported employment in social services. where? In Podolí an area within a stabilised urban fabric of diverse urban structure and scale. With a touch of irony, on Ulice Ve Svahu (Slope Street), whose name and topographical character work against the accessible design of the buildings. .....a set of buildings with integrated social services Solidarity should be part of our lives...