PRAGUE WILDERNESS
Author: Miloš Šejn
From Štvanice to Vítkov Hill / June 9
Miloš Šejn / Dan Merta / Radek Kolařík
Aleš Hnízdil
OTTOTTO
Jan Soumar
Three days in the wild. Each side of the cabin shows one day in the exotic wilds. The processing of collage produces only simplified shapes from a distance; the closer we get to the work, we find that each element captures certain records or distant memories from individual days spent in a wildlife environment.
LOCATION:
Štvanice Island
50.0969672N, 14.4479486E
Petr Skřivánek & Prague Idiots
Jakub Med, Johana Šimčíková
What does a landscape architect do? Probably designs something. Raised stands, feeders and look-out towers. But do high seats also belong in a city?
Raised stands in the urban jungle as landmarks, meeting places and observation points.
LOCATION:
Štvanice Island, Rohan Island, Vítkov Hill
50.0961533N, 14.4447058E
50.0954911N, 14.4462883E
50.0881475N, 14.4531522E
naOKRAJI
Garden and Landscape Architecture, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague
Supervisor: Doc. Ing. Matouš Jebavý, Ph.D., students: Zuzana Končelová, Sabina Vohralíková, Veronika Vaníčková, Marie Vernerová, Anna Vostruhová, Daniela Karasová, Dang Thi Ha, Pavlína Dvořáková, Marie Kabíčková, Jan Jirásek, Matěj Navrátil, Martina Malcová, Olga Vepřeková
Study of the park embankment in Prague-Holešovice complemented by a bench.
The Holešovice Wilderness is the place where the sounds of the wind in tree branches and birdsong combine with the clamorous thunder of harbour machinery and the sound of creaking boats, where rails which have long been forgotten suddenly emerge from the grass. We tried to project the industrial character in the design, while preserving the unusual genius loci.
LOCATION:
Ostrov Štvanice
50.0966206N, 14.4441561E
RKAW: Radek Kolařík, Lada Kolaříková
Lenka Klodová
Aleš Hnízdil
We and everything around us are permeated by this. From the neural connections in our brain to the processes of matter in outer space. The constant movement of particles that form matter and its decay, as well as the movement of thoughts and consciousness, are constantly changing. The incessant transmission of energy, light and darkness, alternating heat and cold, wind movement and other natural processes are essentially a manifestation of silent movement without a beginning or end.
LOCATION:
Štvanice Island
50.0959564N, 14.4363400E
Prague Idiots
WOVEN (Anna Cséfalvay, Marianna Maczová, Danica Pišteková, Veronika Trnovská)
Petr Lada
Jakub Med, Johana Šimčíková
What does a landscape architect do? Probably designs something. Raised stands, feeders and look-out towers. But do high seats also belong in a city?
Raised stands in the urban jungle as landmarks, meeting places and observation points.
LOCATION:
Štvanice Island, Rohan Island, Vítkov Hill
50.0961533N, 14.4447058E
50.0954911N, 14.4462883E
50.0881475N, 14.4531522E
H3T architekti
The imaginary gateway to the new Rohan Island area, where you can see the planned change and also take a look at the entire site from the viewing platform. The temporary wooden structure of the gate is designed in the Iva© construction system, which is based on a combination of subtle wooden elements with simple fasteners.
LOCATION:
Rohan Island
50.0990003N, 14.4649311E
Marie Zandálková
Benedikt Tolar
Roman Franta
The motif of red sun beetles on chaise lounges on Rohan Island is a complementary contrast to the green meadow, inviting passers-by, visitors to "Port 18600" and employees of the adjacent administrative buildings to relax and spend time in the greenery. The formerly unused land comes alive with people.
LOCATION:
Rohan Island
50.0952081N, 14.4472339E
Roman Franta, Katarína Chalániová
Jana Pyšková, ČAKA/SZKT a kolektiv
On the river bank, but high above the water... You can not come down to it, you can not use it. That's what most of the Prague banks are like. We are creating a swimming pool on the second floor. A beach between the trees, with piers, temporary lakes, frogs and droplets of water.
LOCATION:
Rohan Island
50.0963703N, 14.4484342E
Dagmar Šubrtová
The area formerly extensively used by humans, then deserted and left to its own devices where, in a short period of time, elemental natural processes took over, is once again transformed into an occasionally inhabited zone without official management. Some plant species will prevail here in spontaneous successive processes, others, with the contribution of the current changing climate, will not stand the competition.
LOCATION:
Rohan Island
50.0965347N, 14.4500356E
H3T architekti
Čestmír Suška
Bud was made from an old cement silo that was carried to and fro by wagons on rails for many years. The silo ended up in the hills behind Vsetín, where it lay for a very long time on a farmer's land between the manure and the harvester. I found it on the Internet and brought it to the studio. When working inside the huge container, we had to crawl through its narrow neck. It felt like entering a submarine. Then it nestled in the Mexican desert within the Botanical Garden in Trója, and now it blossoms in the wilderness of the Rohan semi-desert.
LOCATION:
Rohan Island
50.1000111N, 14.4649311E
Jan Paclt
The architectural-sculptural composition by Jan Paclt, made of wooden and metallic elements, is gradually growing on a frequented island in front of a popular café. This minimalist rhythmic structure can only be perceived aesthetically and transforms its purpose through its own physical action. Architecture is a plot, a variable response to the place and needs of the population. The structure created by the repetition and transformation of individual elements may be an artistic tool and a prerequisite for flexibility.
The installation was created within the m3 / Art in Space 2017 project.
LOCATION:
Karlín, Pernerova st.
50.0929322N, 14.4599300E
ZEB ONE
ZEB ONE reached in its implementation from graffiti to plastic, even architectural structures. The implementation covers the walls of the technical building; the geometric composition is reduced to flat painting and the basic black and white contrasting colours with red accents give a constructive impression. ZEB ONE is another writer who has crossed the boundary between the street and the gallery scene and has joined the increasing trend of recent years, which is characterised by the gradual penetration of graffiti into free art without any attributes.
The installation was created within the m3 / Art in Space 2017 project.
LOCATION:
Karlín, Pernerova st.
50.0924383N, 14.4576797E
TIMO
Above the dark hole of the tunnel beneath Vítkov Hill, we see the encouraging inscription of the visual artist and poet, Timo, giving one the courage to pass through the tunnel and life. Timo, as one of the few creators of Street Art, is trying to protect his identity. His pseudonym is derived from the Latin (‘timor’ means ‘fear’). The inscription interventions that respond to the context of the place and the reality of everyday life are typical. Sometimes the artist's poetry is sprayed through templates, sometimes handwritten short messages with an existential dimension or political or anti-consumerist comments.
The installation was created within the m3 / Art in Space 2017 project.
LOCATION:
Karlín, Pernerova st.
50.0904631N, 14.4533803E
Alice Frydrychová, Petra Kunovská, Marek Vrabec, Tereza Žižková
Vítkov, as a green oasis in the city centre, has great potential and deserves more attention.
Will the pink door attract yours? Where does it lead? Ring and you may learn more…
LOCATION:
Karlín, Kollárova st.
50.0898453N, 14.4497806E
Iva Dvořáková, Ondřej Pokoj
Karolinenthal winds beside the river,
but the train cannot stop there,
a one-eyed rider bends over it,
who will win the bloody political contest?
Designer Perner shakes his head,
the city council will not wriggle out of it.
Before Metrostav lies the foundation stone.
the station building made of pallets will serve well.
LOKACE:
Karlín, Pernerova st.
50.0895975N, 14.4480800E
Jakub Med, Johana Šimčíková
What does a landscape architect do? Probably designs something. Raised stands, feeders and look-out towers. But do high seats also belong in a city?
Raised stands in the urban jungle as landmarks, meeting places and observation points.
LOCATION:
Štvanice Island, Rohan Island, Vítkov Hill
50.0961533N, 14.4447058E
50.0954911N, 14.4462883E
50.0881475N, 14.4531522E
Lenka Klodová
The bench for a city park with a figural motif and a comfortable reclining area remind us that urban furniture is not "outdoor furniture", but a political means of regulating the behaviour of the public in public spaces. The bench symbolically emphasises the possible erotic function, in contrast to the tendency that, through the uncomfortable furniture design, the city tries to disable any rest other than sitting stiffly side by side.
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0911108N, 14.4613758E
2021 architekti: Peter Lényi, Ondrej Marko, Marian Lucký, Juraj Hariš
EHL & KOUMAR ARCHITEKTI
‘‘The Vítkov Ridge rises gently from Ohrada, breaks at the highest point and then drops down to the monument. At this highest point, we seek a place to pause. We build a stage that invites you to sit down and watch the joggers and passers-by. The podium rises up to the treetops and narrows into the observation area. There is the aroma of fresh wood underfoot.’’
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0908286N, 14.4609575E
David Karásek, Herrmann&Coufal, Viktor Šašinka
For 100 years, we have organised our affairs alone, some of us even appreciating this seemingly natural thing. Vítkov is connected with something called Czechoslovakia, it was not a bad brand name. You can find it in the grass between the trees and you can also sit down there.
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0904156N, 14.4619336E
Martin Gsandtner, Daniel Avilan
CURTAIN
Martin Gsandtner
The perforated structure of the pavilion creates an intimate area in the public urban space. A place for meditation and rest in the middle of the daily hustle and bustle. The use of parametric design is achieved through dynamic shapes, using prefabricated panels of the same size.
OCCUPY VÍTKOV – THE CZECH NATIONAL BREWERY
Daniel Avilan
The proposed repossession and conversion of the National Monument in Vítkov – once occupied by Nazi and Soviet regimes – to The Czech National Brewery, in pursuit of the democratisation of the monument.
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0911314N, 14.4639106E
Jakub Fišer
The installation highlights an almost forgotten path... which is physically challenging for most of us, compared to the usual walking trails. Amidst the greenery of the treetops, levitating t-shirts with numbers giving information on the height / distance... reminiscence of a tourist climb, a race with flags, the sporting spirit, as well as the fact that such places often serve as a basket for the dirty clothes of the homeless. How long does everything stay in place and how many of them will resist before wearing the outfits?
LOKACE:
Vrch Vítkov
50.0914136N, 14.4628536E
Matouš Lipus
The installation was created within the Statues at Vítkov / 2014 project.
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0906669N, 14.4634036E
Pavlína Hlavsová
The installation was created within the Statues at Vítkov / 2014 project.
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0906633N, 14.4630014E
Milena Dopitová
And we thought we were eternal comprises three boxes of the ancient gods: Zeus, the Supreme God of All the Gods and the Sun, Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, Sexuality, Fertility, Beauty, and Hades from the Realm of the Dead, the God of the Underworld. They fell from the sky in Vítkov and are ready to be revealed. There is obviously something missing. And then there’s a lot of what is in abundance. THEY are here and must have some scheme!
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0900475N, 14.4568108E
Petr Adámek
Ladislav Plíhal
Deana Kolenčíková
Lukáš Gavlovský, Roman Švejda
We are accustomed to regard the linden as a massive tree, a monument in the landscape. What is the message when a tumbled log lies before us? Is it still our lime? Being cut down by a saw removed dignity from the trunk. We look inside to see the rotting centre. The idyll is over. And the century-old lime asks:
"Is everything okay? Something is happening beneath the surface, the rot is already extending deeply everywhere."
Although cut down and fallen, the lime becomes a threatening finger, pointing out:
"It's not me you are looking at, I'm just a symbol of you."
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0881492N, 14.4458028E
Lenka Dřevjaná
Jiří Kovanda
The red rose as a symbol of love, passion, the colour of blood, sharp thorns, dense black straps like a trap, imprisonment, aggression that is actually neat. The artificial flower looks alive, and the living flower in the herbarium is dry... All this in a historically significant place, but totally insignificant in a specific location.
LOCATION:
Vrch Vítkov
50.0904861N, 14.4643517E
50.0888719N, 14.4505719E
Kurt Gebauer, Žanda Gebauer
gojo collective
The landscape,
of the city is changing before our eyes, which often eludes us in the city bustle.
The path,
seduces the visitor to places forgotten over time, from which this transition can be observed at a distance.
The line,
white guides offer only the framework of a journey, behind which it is possible to go at any time…
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0894708N, 14.4527444E
Egoé
Tomáš Vaněk
A hanging, flowing thread, instead of a flag, on a ten-metre flagpole on remarkable Vítkov Hill.
LOKACE:
Vrch Vítkov
50.0896861N, 14.4548956E
František Kowolowski
Information – technology – ideas – the entropy of the great story of modernity … the possibility of providing the viewer with a personal space for the public presentation of opinions on this platform, vox populi, a demonstration without demonstrators…
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0910764N, 14.4657478E
ARCHWERK Martin Kloda, Hana Procházková, Petr Tůma
On the site of the former railway siding, we are building a new connection between Karlín and Žižkov. The temporary wooden staircase should be an inspiration for a permanent architectural work that has a similar potential for Žižkov and Karlín as High Line has for New York City.
LOCATION:
Žižkov, Husitská st.
50.0872603N, 14.4428014E
Eliška Bělochová, Viera Moravčíková, Jitka Benešová, Ján Gajdoš
trevisan atelier+, Jitka Trevisan, Klára Třicátníková, Zuzana Grečnárová, Xavier Nicolau Sansó
A precisely cleared strip of transformation. A lawn carpet laid down, with flowers in hanging baskets. Fences removed, gates opened. From the bridge, new views of the surroundings; Sokol House again connected with Vítkov. After the Festival, a trail will be left which just needs to be maintained.
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0880142N, 14.4554561E
Šárka Roučová
Walls here, walls there! Why is a forest so attractive to me?
The project was created as a reflection of the idea based on my own view of city life.
Although it is a project that can look smiley, it can and should encourage reflection. Wooden blocks running out of the woods towards the people and streets, to me mean the connection of Nature with the environment, with architecture and with the people themselves. City-dwellers are often disconnected from the power of Nature that has the ability to positively affect everyone anywhere. And with this project I would like to say, "If Muhammad does not go to the mountain, the mountain must go to Muhammad."
LOCATION:
Vítkov Hill
50.0881233N, 14.4563064E
Prague Idiots
Anastasia Grigoryeva, Marija Reshetnikova, Alžběta Čiperová
Tachov Square consists of a grassy area and an ugly structure that previously served as public toilets. Therefore, it is logical for us to try to make the unsightly look attractive again. The building is embellished with the stunning motifs of the square in Tachov. The project will thus aptly refer to the name of the square itself and permanently serve for the cultivation of the area.
LOKACE:
Žižkov
50.0875814N, 14.4531778E
Hannes Gröblacher, Carla Lo
The temporary “Žižkov Beach” installation is designed as a public walk-through stage set with a stylised version of a beach and a view of the ocean. It involves the many different leisure activities along the cycle track which was previously a railway line. People walk, cycle, run, skate, rollerblade, or take their dogs for a walk here. For a brief moment, they pass through exotic scenery. The short intervention allows an ironic view of the recreational habits in a big city and the longing for sunshine, beaches and the sea… the desire for the metropolitan areas of Prague to be flooded permanently by the ocean.
LOCATION:
Žižkov
50.0877036N, 14.4519411E
Jiří Ullwer, Sabina Loudová
Pavel Karous
The object works consciously with the flamingo as a symbol of kitsch in American society and a "predator" as an intervention in the public space. The name and the object itself is reminiscent of the "Invaders and Herons" project. It is made of steel sheet and epoxide, and resprayed in distinct inappropriate luminescence colours. The statue of a water bird is a symbol of indifferent artistic realisations within State orders (the libretto Fauna and Flora) – the work is therefore ironic and opens up the question of what State art should look like in the public space and in the architecture of the 21st century.
LOCATION:
Žižkov
50.0872192N, 14.4453522E
Juliána Dolíhalová, Petra Pchálková, Karolína Posová, Vilém Michna
Not only the inability to communicate normally is on the edge in today’s society.
LOCATION:
Žižkov
50.0867492N, 14.4446119E
Eliška Bělochová, Viera Moravčíková, Jitka Benešová, Ján Gajdoš (studenti ZF Mendelovy univerzity v Brně obor Zahradní a krajinářská architektura)
PRAGUE WILDERNESS
Author: Miloš Šejn
From Štvanice to Vítkov Hill / June 9
Miloš Šejn / Dan Merta / Radek Kolařík