Spine for Brno - invitation to the object unveiling
On the feast of the Three Kings on Friday, January 6, 2017, at 6:00 PM, a building "Spine for Brno" will be ceremoniously inaugurated at the courtyard of the Brno-Center Town Hall.
The wooden structure was created as part of the studio Meeting joint (Place of Connection) at the Institute of Experimental Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology, under the guidance of MSc. B.Arch. Martin Kaftan, Ph.D.
Students: Kateřina Bušová, Jarmila Fučíková, Petra Kovaříková, Anna Severová, Kristýna Uhrová, Filip Vítek, Lukáš Vrzgula.
The name of the studio is ambiguous. The first meaning of the name "place of connection" defines the studio's focus on experimenting with wooden structures and creating a modular system using wooden joints.
The team will focus on creating geometrically flexible structural systems from wooden elements (battens), which will be optimized for digital manufacturing. Therefore, there will be an ongoing conversation between the material and the digital representation of form in the studio.
The location is the southern courtyard of the New Town Hall in Brno, which, after a recent renovation and the reopening of the second gate, has become a thoroughfare.
The task is to design a multifunctional architectural object that not only serves as urban furniture for resting but also creates an environment for interaction among the city's citizens. Stage, bench, gazebo, stall, etc., are themes we will work with and combine.
Martin Kaftan (B. Arch., MSc., Ph.D) studied at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the USA and the Bartlett School of Architecture in England. As an architect, he worked in New York and London, particularly for the office of Foster+Partners as a specialist in parametric modeling and optimization of complex structures. He has been involved in the design and realization of buildings from pavilions to skyscrapers on all continents. Academically, he has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University, and currently teaches at TU Graz and FA VUT.
The project was created in collaboration with the Brno-Center municipality.
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The wooden structure was created as part of the studio Meeting joint (Place of Connection) at the Institute of Experimental Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology, under the guidance of MSc. B.Arch. Martin Kaftan, Ph.D.
Students: Kateřina Bušová, Jarmila Fučíková, Petra Kovaříková, Anna Severová, Kristýna Uhrová, Filip Vítek, Lukáš Vrzgula.
The name of the studio is ambiguous. The first meaning of the name "place of connection" defines the studio's focus on experimenting with wooden structures and creating a modular system using wooden joints.
The team will focus on creating geometrically flexible structural systems from wooden elements (battens), which will be optimized for digital manufacturing. Therefore, there will be an ongoing conversation between the material and the digital representation of form in the studio.
The location is the southern courtyard of the New Town Hall in Brno, which, after a recent renovation and the reopening of the second gate, has become a thoroughfare.
The task is to design a multifunctional architectural object that not only serves as urban furniture for resting but also creates an environment for interaction among the city's citizens. Stage, bench, gazebo, stall, etc., are themes we will work with and combine.
Martin Kaftan (B. Arch., MSc., Ph.D) studied at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the USA and the Bartlett School of Architecture in England. As an architect, he worked in New York and London, particularly for the office of Foster+Partners as a specialist in parametric modeling and optimization of complex structures. He has been involved in the design and realization of buildings from pavilions to skyscrapers on all continents. Academically, he has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University, and currently teaches at TU Graz and FA VUT.
The project was created in collaboration with the Brno-Center municipality.
More information >
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