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Microcosm on the Road
Svoboda, Marek ; Zein, Lynda (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
Although there is an international vehicular consensus about signing, the maximum speed allowed or connecting the most significant regions together, their nature is different all based on geographical, cultural or social conditions. Rest stops along the roads reflect each country dispositions. Rest stops are the place where different social and national clusters meet. At this moment building up the rest stops is on behalf of the Czech republic which is not that much interested in it. Instead of taking care and maintain them, because the current state of the reststops is not satisfactory, the Czech republic is letting them to the third parties - supranational corporations. This leads to unpleasant lines along the highways accompanying by petrol stations and cheesy fastfoods. There is no place for rest stops without the need of consummation. The Czech republic has currently begun planning and building up new kilometers of highways and the new opportunities of rest stops arise. Because the existing site is overloaded with petrol stations, supranational corporations are no longer interested in these plots. State has an opportunity to take over and redesign these neglected plots on his own.
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Herzlich Willkommen
Dimitrov, Georgi ; Zein, Lynda (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The diploma project is a polemic on the current state of the Czech border region and a speculation on its future development. A test case is the settlement of Hatě, which is part of Chvalovice, a municipality located close to the border with Austria. Hatě is a specific territory - an urban structure that was created in the 1990s right at the border crossing, in the former duty-free zone, and even after its disappearance it is developing into a large commercial and entertainment zone. It targets mainly visitors from Austria, coming to the Czech Republic in search of cheaper goods and services. Hatě is not the only such example - commercial and entertainment zones are regularly repeated at all major border crossings between the Czech Republic and Austria or Germany. The places are defined by bizarre aesthetics, "decadent" businesses and deregulation - as if almost anything is possible here. The project is based on personal experiences with the territory, an attempt to come to terms with a place defined by total non-architecture and asks what is the position of an architect in such a space. Hatě is the antithesis of the city, a "zone" for escaping the everyday, a place that contradicts the basic principles of urbanism. It is a place that offers a reflection on both society and the profession of architecture itself. The work deals not only with the "zone" in Hatě, but also with the municipality of Chvalovice, in whose cadastral territory Hatě is located. Through the mutual synergy of these two places, the project speculates on the possible future development of the area. The polemic is based on the acceleration of the development of the area, which is pushed to the extreme by the proposal. The subject of the proposal is a conceptual master plan or a spatial study that speculates on the possible masterplan of the area of Chvalovice together with the settlement of Hatě.
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Second Nature
Závacká, Paulína ; Zein, Lynda (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The issue of the environment (Umwelt) often fluctuates between two extremes: the cultural environment (architecture) and the natural environment (nature). Although the idea of the "natural environment" can (paradoxically) also be understood as a cultural construct. The project explores the ambiguity of artificial vs. natural through the design of an apartment building. The proposal uses a reinforced concrete skeleton of an abandoned shopping center built at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, into which it inserts individual "dwellings". The design examines the tools ranging from an "artificial stone" in the form of walls made of shotcrete to dramatic views of the nearby Holedná Forest, which both figuratively and literally (eg. during a walk) becomes another room of the apartments. The landscape and human emotions associated with the natural environment are an important motive for the whole proposal. To expose the tension between two modern tendencies: escape from nature vs. return to nature, it samples the topic of apartment and nature.
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Projective space
Štuříková, Blanka ; Zein, Lynda (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The design of the cemetery is based on the findings of the project Projective Space, which analyzes the memories of individuals of their spatial experiences that evoked emotions. Spatial collage as a method of creating an environment which, due to its ambiguity, allows individual interpretation by an individual person and evokes memories, is applied to the design of a cemetery for human composting. After the complete transformation of human remains into fertile land, the grave becomes useless. The dead lose their posthumous address. From a cultural point of view, however, the ritual of burial and the symbolic, mental value of the cemetery play an important role for the relatives in coping with the loss of their beloved. The design works with the culturally conditioned idea of the cemetery as an image of the world. With the disappearance of tombstones and urns, we abandon the concept of a cemetery - the city of the dead and reinterpret it as a cemetery - a landscape made of the dead. Remains in the form of fertile soil become material for modeling of the biodiverse terrain of the cultural landscape, a place that resonates with life.
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Herzlich Willkommen
Dimitrov, Georgi ; Zein, Lynda (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The diploma project is a polemic on the current state of the Czech border region and a speculation on its future development. A test case is the settlement of Hatě, which is part of Chvalovice, a municipality located close to the border with Austria. Hatě is a specific territory - an urban structure that was created in the 1990s right at the border crossing, in the former duty-free zone, and even after its disappearance it is developing into a large commercial and entertainment zone. It targets mainly visitors from Austria, coming to the Czech Republic in search of cheaper goods and services. Hatě is not the only such example - commercial and entertainment zones are regularly repeated at all major border crossings between the Czech Republic and Austria or Germany. The places are defined by bizarre aesthetics, "decadent" businesses and deregulation - as if almost anything is possible here. The project is based on personal experiences with the territory, an attempt to come to terms with a place defined by total non-architecture and asks what is the position of an architect in such a space. Hatě is the antithesis of the city, a "zone" for escaping the everyday, a place that contradicts the basic principles of urbanism. It is a place that offers a reflection on both society and the profession of architecture itself. The work deals not only with the "zone" in Hatě, but also with the municipality of Chvalovice, in whose cadastral territory Hatě is located. Through the mutual synergy of these two places, the project speculates on the possible future development of the area. The polemic is based on the acceleration of the development of the area, which is pushed to the extreme by the proposal. The subject of the proposal is a conceptual master plan or a spatial study that speculates on the possible masterplan of the area of Chvalovice together with the settlement of Hatě.
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Second Nature
Závacká, Paulína ; Zein, Lynda (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The issue of the environment (Umwelt) often fluctuates between two extremes: the cultural environment (architecture) and the natural environment (nature). Although the idea of the "natural environment" can (paradoxically) also be understood as a cultural construct. The project explores the ambiguity of artificial vs. natural through the design of an apartment building. The proposal uses a reinforced concrete skeleton of an abandoned shopping center built at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, into which it inserts individual "dwellings". The design examines the tools ranging from an "artificial stone" in the form of walls made of shotcrete to dramatic views of the nearby Holedná Forest, which both figuratively and literally (eg. during a walk) becomes another room of the apartments. The landscape and human emotions associated with the natural environment are an important motive for the whole proposal. To expose the tension between two modern tendencies: escape from nature vs. return to nature, it samples the topic of apartment and nature.
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Projective space
Štuříková, Blanka ; Zein, Lynda (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The design of the cemetery is based on the findings of the project Projective Space, which analyzes the memories of individuals of their spatial experiences that evoked emotions. Spatial collage as a method of creating an environment which, due to its ambiguity, allows individual interpretation by an individual person and evokes memories, is applied to the design of a cemetery for human composting. After the complete transformation of human remains into fertile land, the grave becomes useless. The dead lose their posthumous address. From a cultural point of view, however, the ritual of burial and the symbolic, mental value of the cemetery play an important role for the relatives in coping with the loss of their beloved. The design works with the culturally conditioned idea of the cemetery as an image of the world. With the disappearance of tombstones and urns, we abandon the concept of a cemetery - the city of the dead and reinterpret it as a cemetery - a landscape made of the dead. Remains in the form of fertile soil become material for modeling of the biodiverse terrain of the cultural landscape, a place that resonates with life.
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Microcosm on the Road
Svoboda, Marek ; Zein, Lynda (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
Although there is an international vehicular consensus about signing, the maximum speed allowed or connecting the most significant regions together, their nature is different all based on geographical, cultural or social conditions. Rest stops along the roads reflect each country dispositions. Rest stops are the place where different social and national clusters meet. At this moment building up the rest stops is on behalf of the Czech republic which is not that much interested in it. Instead of taking care and maintain them, because the current state of the reststops is not satisfactory, the Czech republic is letting them to the third parties - supranational corporations. This leads to unpleasant lines along the highways accompanying by petrol stations and cheesy fastfoods. There is no place for rest stops without the need of consummation. The Czech republic has currently begun planning and building up new kilometers of highways and the new opportunities of rest stops arise. Because the existing site is overloaded with petrol stations, supranational corporations are no longer interested in these plots. State has an opportunity to take over and redesign these neglected plots on his own.
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