The reimagined park in Trenčín will serve as a backdrop to the European City of Culture events in 2026. Currently, Štefánik Park is defined by movement between its opposite poles – the city center and its railway station. Over this linear commute, the project inserts a sauntering sequence of stops offering a slowdown focusing on …
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Zone Mierova, St. Tura
The original development on the site represented a simple symbiosis between housing and work. Longitudinal plots formed a gradient of housing, farms, gardens, and fields. What would it be like to re-enter such orchards in the middle of the city, meet neighbors for a harvest, sip fresh apple juice? The current project develops this gradation: …
Studio Prof. Fischer
The painting studio of prof. Fischer is a simple volume connected to the existing house by a translucent crystal. It is an extension of the original atelier, now filled with paintings. Towards the street, the building presents a simple wooden facade separated from the road by dense greenery. From the north, a glazed facade illuminates …
Forest Spirit, Dubai
Slovak Pavilion, Expo 2020 Dubai Competition, 2018. In collab with Loom on the Moon and studený architekti. Slovakia’s image is based on a polarity between the country’s natural and cultural heritage, and its attractiveness as a backbone of logistics and industrial support. It references deep forests and haunting castles (Nosferatu was filmed here), but aims to attract advanced manufacturing (and has …
Panda Pavilion, Prague
ZOO Prague, Czech Republic Competition, 2017. In collab with studený architekti. The panda pavilion presents the animals in an ecosystem referencing the slopes of central China. It adds a protected slice of bamboo and water streams to the ZOO’s diverse mosaic of environmental samples. The thick vegetation, inconspicuous fencing and topography separate the animals from …
Light Zone
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 …
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, …
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 …