The Designblok and Fashionweek shows once again hosted the unique CITY modules

The international showcase Designblok does not need a long introduction. Lovers of design, fashion, and jewelry have the week in October, when this showcase regularly takes place, firmly circled in their calendars.

For the second year, the center of all events has been the Art Nouveau Industrial Palace at the Holešovice Exhibition Grounds, featuring Openstudio, Superstudio, and ART House. The accompanying program took place at several other locations throughout Prague.
This year's edition left a mark in the minds of visitors, among other things, through its overlaps into architecture. This also happened thanks to the modular objects from CITY modules produced by the Vizovice company KOMA Modular. This original Czech company made a name for itself especially in 2015 when it manufactured and built the award-winning Czech pavilion at EXPO in Milan (the Czech pavilion was awarded a bronze medal for architecture and technological solutions) and received the "Company of the Year 2015" award. Its atypical CITY modules, which have a trapezoidal floor plan, have been enlivening public spaces at various cultural events for several years.

Visitors to Designblok could admire modular objects made from CITY modules in practice at two locations in Prague. The first was the space in front of the main entrance to the Industrial Palace, where three black CITY modules were installed, sensitively complemented by yellow wooden elements that perfectly matched the colors of this year's Designblok. The visual concept was created by Adéla Bačová, a graduate of industrial design at UTB in Zlín. The first module showcased implementations from the modules according to their uses - restaurants, school buildings, offices, residential buildings, sports facilities, and the Czech modular pavilion EXPO 2015 in Milan, whose concept was developed in collaboration between KOMA Modular and the architectural studio CHYBIK KRISTOF AA.

In the second module, various conceptual designs from young architects were presented, for which KOMA organized architectural competitions with different themes. Perhaps the most interesting were the conceptual designs for the construction of a modular South Bohemian Philharmonic, housing for seniors, and a modular kindergarten.

The third module featured an exhibition that showcased a wide range of uses for CITY modules, including the successful Lighthouse, which became a focal point of this year's International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava.

However, visitors encountered CITY modules not only at the exhibition grounds. The second place where people could familiarize themselves with modern modular architecture was the Designblok information center at Wenceslas Square. For this location, a two-story structure composed of three modules was chosen. A glass CITY module, which served as the Designblok information center, was complemented by two frames of CITY modules connected by stairs. Thus, a terrace with a beautiful view of the entire square was created at the upper part.

Visitors to Designblok and the related Fashion Week were thus able to get acquainted not only with the latest trends in applied design but also with small modular architecture, the main advantages of which are speed of construction, environmental friendliness, thoughtful design, precise workmanship, and above all, enormous variability, which underpins the success of modular systems not only in our country but also worldwide.