Adam Lacina and Jiří Lukáš (3rd year) - Man, Village, and Landscape - Vision for Fojtka studio: prof. Ing.arch. Zdeněk Fránek / assistant: Ing.arch. Dana Raková
Our village is struggling with many problems. Some are talked about a lot, some less, and even less is said about the causes of these problems. We are possessed by the desire to find the causes and determine the direction in which the current village could go. Not just any village! We chose a small mountain village located in the Jizera Mountains Protected Landscape Area. We are troubled by the losses that Fojtka has suffered and continues to suffer. The loss of interest in the landscape, the village, and neighbors. Residents seem to only perceive their fences. Fojtka has been overgrown for 60 years. We want to awaken Fojtka, to give it an identity. An identity of a shepherd's settlement. However, do not imagine a romantic scene of freshly grazed hills, but rather hard work, the smell of straw, soil, and manure. We have thought this through properly so that animals can coexist with plants, and those with the landscape, and so the landscape can coexist with people and their homes. Only in this way will everything function. We propose rotational grazing of approximately four hundred sheep, which will roam on seventy-five hectares of pastures and ten hectares of orchards. We have proposed fences for the pastures and beehives for the orchards. We built a sheepfold for the sheep and new slaughterhouses for processing their meat. We did not forget about the people, and we placed a village hall and accommodation in the former spinning mill, along with a juice house and a dairy. We then connected the village hall with a small space to create a solid center of the village. The entire village has a clear boundary in the proposal, which is a service road that holds Fojtka together like a clamp. Everything would be managed by the municipality, or rather the village shepherd. The municipality would lease the land directly from private owners. The beginning would certainly not be easy, but the municipality and the state own some land, and that would be the starting point. Initially on a small scale, gradually everything would expand. More sheep, apple trees, cheeses, honey, meat, apples, and juices would be added. Eventually, there would be work for seven well-paid people in Fojtka.
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