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Countryside 3.0
Přikrylová, Monika ; Kekel, Roman (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The proposal follows up on the undergraduate semester work which dealt with a topic of data centers - a lifestyle based on data circulation. Growing needs of city dwellers, coupled with the demand of constant connectivity, are reflected in the transformation of the landscape which is being occupied by gigantic data centers. Those data centres in the loopback reconfigure the environment of cities that use their instant and "unlimited" computing power. The landscape is becoming the engine room of digital urban life. The thesis develops social and environmental issues of "continuity between a city and a country” and outlines a problem of self-sufficiency and awareness of the energy intensity of current urban lifestyle. In my work I focus on one of the by-products of data centers. That is waste heat, which has a negative effect on the quality and lifespan of electronic components - it is undesirable. Data center entrepreneurs have found a way to divert unfavourable attention from the debate about the energy demand of big data. They transform waste into a desired commodity by replacing conventional forms of heating with a system newly based on the supply of waste heat. Therefore, they are becoming significant suppliers of thermal energy. The phenomenon of heat recycling neutralizes external criticism of big data by making urban life literally dependent on it. The sustainable future of data center operations takes place largely without critical debate. On the contrary, it confirms data production as a process that literally drives everyday life. This new wave of green techno-optimism and related implementations is shrouded in a discourse of innovation, environmental friendliness and smart data processing. The diploma thesis deals with the phenomenon of commodification of waste heat of a specific data center, and its potential for symbolic and material transformation of the urban environment. The critical dimension of this transformation allows visitors to literally experience first-hand the manipulation of the climate of a specific location - the new city market in Brno. Other issues arise in connection with the recycling of waste heat. What will happen when big data streams become a raw material to replace older forms of energy supply in an urbanized world? What will be the impact on the city´s heating, the economic and symbolic importance of data center entrepreneurs?
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Baths +
Kekel, Roman ; Zaicek, Martin (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
"Imagine a point in space which you have been continuously looking for only to find it and lose it at the same time." The subjects of functional architecture are deconstructed trough a new layer, therefore changing their "functional" space. What we see and what we expect to see is no longer what we get. Reshaping of expected sequences, disruption of structures, shortening of spaces or lengthening of their perspective sequences all of which are necessary to walk through to reach the desired destination, these are the means which help us discover new (psychological) spaces. It is not only the layout we need to pre-examine but also the movement of the observer who finds him/her self going through numerous feelings such as waving, tilting, embarrassment, isolation, disorientation, etc. never quite knowing what comes next. One section can be gone over quickly or in length, individually or shared within a group. It can bring about intense feelings of both happiness and claustrophobia can occur. It is simply a matter of experiencing time and space in different ways. With the intention of loosing the stereotypical, the everyday, and acquiring awareness of the physical and psychological existence within the boundaries of our world and beyond.
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Twenty Eighty-Four
Truncová, Eva ; Sotelo, MArch Verónica Gallego (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The project follows up on the undergraduate work on the issue of control and surveillance in public space. Tendencies of absolute transparency, well-arranged and controllable public premises, supposedly implying security, are present in most of the newly emerging complexes of buildings and urban planning strategies. Whether it is done consciously or as a result of current “trends” and requirements, which only a few question, the space is built to meet these demands for easy controllability. The second method of control, which has also emerged during the era of modernism, is the control of the indoor climate through "mechanical environmental management" or through the use of fossil fuel energy for heating, cooling and ventilation. Current requirements for the comfort of the indoor environment presuppose a constantly, fully and homogeneously tempered environment, regardless of the outdoor climate or the time of year. Both control regimes permeate all measures of the urban environment and have a direct impact on its organization, form and, above all, on the regimes of its usage. Developers and their commissioned architects repeat well-proven business models and forms, without any major focus on the context of the place, and incorporate this "logic of control" into their buildings and surroundings. Housing complexes are planned and built up as one unit with a rigid structure and only a minimal possibility of their later alteration. The domain of control through transparency penetrates from the public space to the entrance door of the apartment unit. Indoor, social control changes to total control of the interior climate of the apartment, where the boundaries between seasons and day and night are blurred. The proposal is investigating alternative ways of urban planning and architecture. The project deals with the relationship between building, its surroundings and applicable regulations, standards and energy efficiency, along with the idea of adaptive living.
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Baths +
Svoboda, Marek ; Foretník, Jan (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
Spas are designed on the principle of stage and auditorium, where the visitor becomes either actor or observer; actor or spectator. Fragmenting each "act" active activities through a carefully programmed observation sites and vistas is needed to create tension between actor and observer. "Story" is is revealed gradually, and his understanding is necessary to move the proposed space and rotate each "Auditorium". Achieve a comprehensive sensation viewer is associated with the need to crawl space spa. Act is repeated. From the viewer becomes an actor and the actor spectator. The body is in motion and mental marches are a reflection of observation of physical events. (google translator)
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LIBRARY plus - Multiporpouse Building with Library
Marečková, Kateřina ; Foretník, Jan (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
A new architectural centre for Brno is created, including a library in which, instead of the books, the rooms are to be found. The books are stored in a robotic storage tower, enabling delivery to every floor. This opens up completly free movement for the visitor, without dependence on where the book is stored. The rooms are composed irationally on purpose. This creates unexpected correlation, visual axis and fragmentation of space. The walls are dividing lines and borders between different visual experiences. Materials are put into new context, altering their character.
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Prison Story
Štefková, Dominika ; Petermann, Tomáš (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The thesis is a continuation of a pre-diploma project on the stigmatization of buildings and society's perception of buildings that do not have the most pleasant past behind them. The project deals with the question of the new use of the decaying prison in Uherské Hradiště. Through a meaningful program, it seeks to bring the building back to life and incorporate the current 19th century time bubble back into the urban fabric, while not obscuring the grim past of the site. The thesis is a continuation of a pre-diploma project on the stigmatization of buildings and society's perception of buildings that do not have the most pleasant past behind them. It deals with the question of the new use of the decaying building of the former prison in Uherské Hradiště. The project seeks a meaningful program and architectural solution that would bring the building back to life and integrate it back into the urban fabric. The Slovácké Theatre, which operates in Uherské Hradiště, is moving into the building. The Slovácké Theatre is located in the leased space of the former Sokolovna. The big disadvantage of the existing theatre is the small space for its facilities. Workshops and warehouses are not located here at all. In addition, the existing theatre building is located just off a busy road and thus has no space for people to linger after the theatre. On a symbolic level, the theatre is a program that allows the city to deal with the problematic past of the prison building in a lively way. The proposal does not preserve the prison building, it does not "musealize" it. It is not afraid of radical interventions and demolition, which allows not only to harmonize the operation of the theatre with the historical building, but also to make the closed building completely accessible and transparent. Consciously and through architectural design, the object, excluded from society, becomes its own opposite: a social centre accessible to all. A social conscience and a mirror, not a prison, but a theatre. At the same time, the redevelopment does not try to erase the prison past. The remaining fragments of the buildings are left in their rawness, with a clearly legible trace of solitary confinement and a façade in the style of "architecture terrible".
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Archive+
Netrefová, Klára ; Ponešová, Barbora (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The proposal deals with the concept of post-digital manufactory. The predominantly unusual combination of two ascetic materials. Bricks and concrete is dominant. The building has the ambition to become a catalyst for events with the public space of the city of Brno.
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To the Mountains !
Kurajda, Matej ; Matějka, Daniel (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
Defining a new concept NP is based on the personal survival of human failure in nature preservation and giving the opportunity to spend time in deeper places in this mountainous landscape where the biggest negative impacts of forest extraction are. The project doesn’t define only new principle, but the process at the beginning of which makes the tourism of landscape views and clusters has became antiturism, antipanorama and depressed experience from the ruined landscape. Gradually with the restoration of the landscape, our relationship with her is renewed as part of understanding a land.
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Our estranged spaces
Jelínková, Anna ; Štojdl, Václav (referee) ; Kristek, Jan (advisor)
The project is a continuation of the pre-diploma thesis, which was focused on urban voids and "vacant" spaces in the city centre of Chrudim. To understand the urban voids it utilizes Ignasi de Sol-Morales' Terrain vague concept, which questions the emptiness of such spaces. From the perspective of economic yield, the empty spaces may lie outside the systemic circuits of the city, but at the same time they are certainly not without any content. Examples include urban wilderness in the form of encroachments and R-ecosystems that take hold there, or various non-systemic activities for which there is no space left elsewhere. In their ambivalence between emptiness and content, such places embody the possibility of a systemic alternative that has not yet been defined. The diploma thesis then explores the idea of whether the principles of vagueness can be applied to the search for alternative forms of living and coliving.
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