Young architect won with a thesis on the transformation of a factory into housing
Prague – The winner of this year's Diploma Work Showcase, where students from domestic architectural schools compete, is Eva Truncová. A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Brno University of Technology, she won with a design for an alternative solution to the developer's plan for transforming the brownfield of the Kras factory in Brno into residential housing. The best diploma works were announced today at the Center for Architecture and Urban Planning (CAMP) in Prague.
In the 22nd edition of the Diploma Work Showcase, organized by the Czech Chamber of Architects, 86 graduates were vying for the award. The jury highlighted that the graduates consistently and comprehensively tackle realistic and complex assignments, such as relocating a train station in Brno, buildings around the railway, a hall for the philharmonic, and others. "The assignments that follow contemporary architectural competitions are a valuable contribution to the broader social debate and can greatly enrich the students through comparisons of their work with the winning designs," the jury stated.
In her winning project titled Two Thousand Eighty-Four, Truncová offered an alternative approach to residential development on the brownfield of the former Kras factory in Brno and debates the developer's project. "Its essence is the revision of the relationships and ratios that architecture establishes in the emerging neighborhood. Whether it concerns the relationships between buildings and their surroundings, parts to the whole, connections between its residents, finding a balance between stability and adaptability, between regulation and freedom, closure and openness, comfort and climatic reality," the jury explained, noting that the project also revives the forgotten principle of different uses of the house in summer and winter.
The second prize went to Alžběta Pomahačová from the Academy of Fine Arts for her work City Housing Estate: Prefabricated Homes. The judges appreciated that the author in her design for the revitalization of a panel house in Bohnice "tries to identify the qualities of the existing house, whether structural, aesthetic, or residential, to highlight them while also balancing its weaknesses and deficiencies with new interventions". The result is a house that "gained liveliness and variability thanks to the added loggias, softness and warmth due to wood, but at the same time did not lose its original character."
The third place was awarded by the jury to the graduate of the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University in Liberec, Tobiáš Hrabc for the project Student Housing and HUB in Liberec. He designed a residential complex that, according to the judges, achieves a high quality of the intended execution, surprisingly aimed at student housing.
The special award from the Czech Centers was given by the jury to Sára Roeselová from the Faculty of Architecture at CTU for her work Restoration of Settlements in the Šluknov Peninsula, which addressed the topic of the forgotten borderland. The special award from the Ministry of Industry and Trade was awarded to Silvia Matisová from the Faculty of Architecture at CTU in Prague for her work Industrial Zone in Mezitratí. Additionally, partner awards for the competition were distributed, focusing on the design of a new bypass for Litomyšl, public space in the Prague neighborhood of Ďáblice, and the conversion of a cinema in Orlová into a community center.
In the 22nd edition of the Diploma Work Showcase, organized by the Czech Chamber of Architects, 86 graduates were vying for the award. The jury highlighted that the graduates consistently and comprehensively tackle realistic and complex assignments, such as relocating a train station in Brno, buildings around the railway, a hall for the philharmonic, and others. "The assignments that follow contemporary architectural competitions are a valuable contribution to the broader social debate and can greatly enrich the students through comparisons of their work with the winning designs," the jury stated.
In her winning project titled Two Thousand Eighty-Four, Truncová offered an alternative approach to residential development on the brownfield of the former Kras factory in Brno and debates the developer's project. "Its essence is the revision of the relationships and ratios that architecture establishes in the emerging neighborhood. Whether it concerns the relationships between buildings and their surroundings, parts to the whole, connections between its residents, finding a balance between stability and adaptability, between regulation and freedom, closure and openness, comfort and climatic reality," the jury explained, noting that the project also revives the forgotten principle of different uses of the house in summer and winter.
The second prize went to Alžběta Pomahačová from the Academy of Fine Arts for her work City Housing Estate: Prefabricated Homes. The judges appreciated that the author in her design for the revitalization of a panel house in Bohnice "tries to identify the qualities of the existing house, whether structural, aesthetic, or residential, to highlight them while also balancing its weaknesses and deficiencies with new interventions". The result is a house that "gained liveliness and variability thanks to the added loggias, softness and warmth due to wood, but at the same time did not lose its original character."
The third place was awarded by the jury to the graduate of the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University in Liberec, Tobiáš Hrabc for the project Student Housing and HUB in Liberec. He designed a residential complex that, according to the judges, achieves a high quality of the intended execution, surprisingly aimed at student housing.
The special award from the Czech Centers was given by the jury to Sára Roeselová from the Faculty of Architecture at CTU for her work Restoration of Settlements in the Šluknov Peninsula, which addressed the topic of the forgotten borderland. The special award from the Ministry of Industry and Trade was awarded to Silvia Matisová from the Faculty of Architecture at CTU in Prague for her work Industrial Zone in Mezitratí. Additionally, partner awards for the competition were distributed, focusing on the design of a new bypass for Litomyšl, public space in the Prague neighborhood of Ďáblice, and the conversion of a cinema in Orlová into a community center.
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