Design
#structure
#Czech Republic
#Prague
#river
#shops
October 18, 2021
Grace Ebert
New cafes, galleries, and studios are popping up alongside the Vltava River in Prague, though they’re not instantly seen from atop the embankment. Tucked inside former storage models embedded throughout the construction itself are 20 tunnel-like areas redesigned for public use. Showing like glass-doored portals lining the waterfront, the multi-purpose venture is a part of the Czech metropolis’s efforts to revitalize a four-kilometer swath of the riverbank, which beforehand served as a car parking zone, and are the endeavor of architect Petr Janda who helms the Prague-based studio Brainwork.
Every vaulted venue comprises concrete partitions and flooring and gleaming stainless-steel that displays its environment. Areas designated for outlets and galleries function massive, elliptical doorways in glass, whereas the opposite 14 are marked with a sculptural entrance, hiding the remaining house occupied by personal tenants or used for public bogs from view. “The interventions symbiotically merge with the unique structure of the riverside wall, into which they naturally fuse,” Janda informed designboom. “By utilizing the acupuncture technique, they re-create a monumental complete.”
Head to Instagram to seek out preliminary sketches for the redesign and to comply with Brainwork’s future tasks.
#structure
#Czech Republic
#Prague
#river
#shops
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