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Twelve students, simple facilities and, at the start, just a pile of planks to assemble. This is also what an unconventional introduction to a summer school focused on building with your own hands rather than paper drawing can look like. After months of theoretical instruction, future architecture adepts now have the opportunity to experience first-hand just how big the difference between academic dreaming and actual realization can be.
"We see the ability to realize our ideas, even with our own hands, as a core part of architectural education. Being able to take a material for years, think about how best to use its properties and then build your own building is an invaluable experience for anyone. A solid foundation for all further designing," says one of the lecturers, architect Jan Mléčka.
The choice of the location in the border village of Ondřejovice was not random. Representatives of local associations, based on the outcomes of previous years in Pelhřimov in Osoblagi, addressed young architects with the themes of the defunct castle park and the related overgrown - and nowadays often only suspected - old paths. Formerly lively places of everyday hustle and bustle or representative resting places are coming back into focus after decades of neglect. Student interventions can thus help to discover the forgotten charm and hidden potential of places or particular situations, thanks to the valuable insight from the outside.
"The theme of the festival connects the torso of the castle park with the surrounding landscape. Remnants of gazebos, ponds, alleys and former composite vistas or overlooks connect with fragments of former chapels, divine torments after the collapse of the perimeter wall. This creates a unique situation where the secular 'celebration' touches the spiritual and creates a whole," describes another lecturer, architect Tomáš Madro. "It is great that the locals are aware of these values. And they are interested in developing and actively promoting them. For example, Zlaté Hory, to which Ondřejovice belongs, even provided the wood that the students will work with," he adds.
The Summer School of Architecture in Ondřejovice near Zlaté Hory will take place from Sunday 23 June to Friday 28 June in the former castle park and the wider surroundings. Visitors will be able to see the work and thinking of the youngest generation of architects. The resulting objects will remain in place throughout the summer.
The event is organized by the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology in cooperation with the town of Zlaté Hory.
Contact persons:
Ing. arch. Jan Mléčka, Ph.D., educator, lecturer. tel.: +420 739 016 898, email: mlecka@vutbr.cz
Ing. arch. Tomáš Madro, lecturer. tel: +420 721 200 964, email: tomasmadro@gmail.com
Architecture students will celebrate the defunct castle park in Ondřejovice near Zlaté Hory
For the sixth time, the future architects and architects of the Brno Technique will travel to the former Sudetenland in the last week of July to draw attention to the lost charm of the landscape and life in it in cooperation with the locals. This year's holiday summer school project, subtitled Celebration, begins in the defunct castle park in Ondřejovice near Zlaté Hory next week.Twelve students, simple facilities and, at the start, just a pile of planks to assemble. This is also what an unconventional introduction to a summer school focused on building with your own hands rather than paper drawing can look like. After months of theoretical instruction, future architecture adepts now have the opportunity to experience first-hand just how big the difference between academic dreaming and actual realization can be.
"We see the ability to realize our ideas, even with our own hands, as a core part of architectural education. Being able to take a material for years, think about how best to use its properties and then build your own building is an invaluable experience for anyone. A solid foundation for all further designing," says one of the lecturers, architect Jan Mléčka.
The choice of the location in the border village of Ondřejovice was not random. Representatives of local associations, based on the outcomes of previous years in Pelhřimov in Osoblagi, addressed young architects with the themes of the defunct castle park and the related overgrown - and nowadays often only suspected - old paths. Formerly lively places of everyday hustle and bustle or representative resting places are coming back into focus after decades of neglect. Student interventions can thus help to discover the forgotten charm and hidden potential of places or particular situations, thanks to the valuable insight from the outside.
"The theme of the festival connects the torso of the castle park with the surrounding landscape. Remnants of gazebos, ponds, alleys and former composite vistas or overlooks connect with fragments of former chapels, divine torments after the collapse of the perimeter wall. This creates a unique situation where the secular 'celebration' touches the spiritual and creates a whole," describes another lecturer, architect Tomáš Madro. "It is great that the locals are aware of these values. And they are interested in developing and actively promoting them. For example, Zlaté Hory, to which Ondřejovice belongs, even provided the wood that the students will work with," he adds.
The Summer School of Architecture in Ondřejovice near Zlaté Hory will take place from Sunday 23 June to Friday 28 June in the former castle park and the wider surroundings. Visitors will be able to see the work and thinking of the youngest generation of architects. The resulting objects will remain in place throughout the summer.
The event is organized by the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology in cooperation with the town of Zlaté Hory.
Contact persons:
Ing. arch. Jan Mléčka, Ph.D., educator, lecturer. tel.: +420 739 016 898, email: mlecka@vutbr.cz
Ing. arch. Tomáš Madro, lecturer. tel: +420 721 200 964, email: tomasmadro@gmail.com
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