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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Wet Topo, Lamac
The revitalization of central Lamac unifies the linear space by molding all surfaces into a continuous topography, smoothly descending towards the currently covered stream. Visitors can walk along natural banks between overgrown greenery and grass plantings, partially screened from road surfaces, or leap across to the opposite bank. The landscape character changes according to the …
Dulovo Sq.
A traffic remodeling bundles car and bike lanes on one side of the square, partially redirecting the flow of vehicles. It allows the textured paving of the pedestrian area to unify the entire square delimited by arcades on its parallel edges. Local environments become malleable thanks to a grid of trees and greenery that alternate …
Plato Staromestská
Urban Park, Bratislava Competition 2022, Schematic Design 2022. Joint venture with studený architekti, Terra Florida, AK Závodný The landscape is a projection of the original moat over an existing highway dividing central Bratislava. It connects the Old Town with the Castle Hill through a green plane extending along the ramparts. With an area of almost 0.5 …
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 …
Leaf Campus, Vistuk
Central European Leadership Academy, Vištuk, Slovakia Competition and Masterplan, 2014. In collab with soma ZTGMBH. The Field The master plan of the Centro European Leadership Academy projects the landscape at the site in Vištuk to define new spaces for the boarding school by keeping the principal quality of the original field: generous open space. We …
Play History, Trencin
City on the River, Trenčín Competition, 2014. Project licensed to municipality. In collab with Kika Rypáková, Mark Balzar and Zeynep Aksoz. We discover a city through fortuitous encounters with its spaces, gradu- ally layering newly perceived images on top of memories. But unlike a metaphor of memory, where newest impressions of a space, or of …
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 …