4AM Gallery Installation Workshop, 2011. Paradoxically, voids can create high density. The Glacis (protective areas around fortresses), the Green Belt (the ring of vegetation surrounding London) or the Sky Planes (surfaces defining the incidence of light onto the streets in New York) are all artificially defined volumes of emptiness that concentrate cities inside forms prescribed …
Author Archives: Peter Stec Studio
Orchard Avenues, Turku
Turku Kaarninko, Finand Competition, 2011. 2nd Prize, in collab with Mark Balzar. Landscape has had a traditionally immense influence on Finland’s architecture. The expanse of the land and the low density of settlement make the variations of this connection seem inexhaustible. Architectural surveys such as “Build Landscape” attest it (in this case directly through the …
Urbanism Gone Wild, Ostrava
Ostrava Back Meadow International competition, 3rd prize, 2010. With Brian Tabolt and Jimmy Lowder While culture is often described as a product, we are interested in the definition of culture as a process, in the relationship with cultivation – to grow that which is desired while gradually removing that which is not desired. Culture, in other words, …
Tabula E-Rasa
Park Mudrochova Public space commission, Raca municipality, 2021. With studený architekti, Terra Florida and AK Závodný. The existing park forms the background to free-standing apartments in a “superblock” framed by traditional houses on longitudinal plots. The typically socialist residential structure is inspired by the magnificent modernist vision of towers in the park. This reference inspired …
Water Expo
The building aims to showcase water as an element and a topic. The project consists of a renovated pumping station with an interactive 3-D cave and presentation spaces, extended with a new wing containing the interactive gallery. The extension demonstrates the water cycle as its structure. Its inverted pitch roof funnels the rainwater to transparent …