Public space and City modules

With the arrival of the new director of the Moravian Gallery, Jan Presse, in 2013, the City modules were introduced as part of the project Open, where the gallery responded to the low public interest and wanted to engage the gallery in urban life. According to the design by the atelier Chybík + Krištof AA, unique City modules in a trapezoidal shape were created, enabling the gallery's space to extend beyond its own building. Since then, City modules have gained popularity among architects, artists, designers, city representatives, and non-profit organizations.

Now the company KOMA MODULAR presents City modules as its spatial logo and rents them for various uses. A cross-section of where you could encounter these unique modules is summarized in the design magazine Koma City. Last year, KOMA expanded the use of City modules with a set it named Lighthouse. This city module lighthouse adorned last year's Zlín Designweek, the Children's Film Festival, the Ynspirology event organized by the well-known dancer Yemi A.D., and at the end of the year, it was placed in Jihlava Square as part of the Documentary Film Festival.

The organizers used it as a café with space for gatherings and workshops. City modules also serve educational purposes, such as the event The Closely Watched Breasts, where they provided a background for the Alliance of Women with Breast Cancer and introduced the public to prevention against this insidious disease in Prague and Brno, or as a stage for artistic performances. City modules were also seen as part of an artistic performance at the light festival Signal in Prague, which was used by Dutch artist Matthijs Munnik for his light performance.

The versatility of assembling City modules into various shape variations appealed to designers, and you could see them at Prague's Designblok in 2014, 2015, and 2016. They helped present waiting rooms mm cité for a better city, but also as a presentation of various entrepreneurs during the event SDÍLKO, which was premiered in Kopřivnice and successfully repeated in Ostrava Poruba. The architectural outreach of City modules was demonstrated by a promotion of new types of BMW cars as part of the automobile company's hundredth anniversary during the Karlovy Vary Film Festival by the Olgoj Chorchoj studio. The use of City modules is inexhaustible, as demonstrated by the completed realizations, including the most recent appearance at the Brno Christmas markets.