The Faculty of Architecture of the CTU invites you to an exhibition of student work from the winter semester

Up to 1,500 exhibited works deal with topics such as the housing crisis, adaptation to climate change and the sustainable management of architectural heritage. They also explore new uses for neglected urban sites.

The Chalupa-Holubcová studio's semester-long assignment, House in the Spur, focused on the design of buildings in transition zones between the old and new city, where the small buildings of Prague's historic centre give way to the tall buildings of wider streets.

 The taboo topic of care for seriously ill and parentless children was opened by the Tesař-Barla studio. In selected locations in Prague 6, connected to the Central Military Hospital and facilities in the green, the students designed children's hospices and apartment buildings for foster parents. The students drew on professional cooperation with the Vlček Family Foundation and architect Jakub Kynčl.

The revival of lower Holešovice was carried out by the Sosna-Filsak studio. With its rectangular street grid, the district lacks an intense centre and natural landmarks. Each student designed one tower in the selected block, whose position, height and proportions improve the legibility and identity of the district.

The students from the Hlaváček-Čeněk-Tichá studio thought about how the City could grow, evolve, not age, find new functions without increasing its built-up area and how the development process could be as sustainable as possible in all aspects. The City Above the City assignment results can be viewed directly in the studio through augmented reality glasses.

During the winter semester, the visiting studio querkraft focused on the unfinished Lamarr department store in Vienna, awaiting completion after the investor's bankruptcy. The challenge was to breathe new life into the building by creating a hybrid facility for living, working, leisure, and cultural use.

Students in the Valouch-Stibral studio addressed the theme of the Malovanka intersection, which interrupted the connection within the residential district of Prague with the construction of the Blanka tunnel. They were tasked with designing a new layer to change the place and reintegrate it into the city's life —i.e., build houses and streets and plant trees over the hole.

City by the Railway, a commission from the Hájek-Hulín studio, focused on reviving the romantic railway line from Karlovy Vary to Mariánské Lázně, which runs through the Slavkovský les protected area.

The assignment for the first-year landscape architecture students from the Špalková studio was to create a spatial concept for a tailings dump above the village of Číčovice and to transform a place abused for waste disposal into a valuable part of the cultural landscape.

The students of the Jaroš design studio focused on designing unified urban furniture and bus stops for the town of Jilemnice.

The students of the first-year design studio Bébarová were given a fragrant task: designing a set of soap and soap dispensers. The design had to take into account hand ergonomics, grip, washing movements, proper drainage, and disposal.

The exhibition of the studio's work can be visited until 7 February 2025, daily from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm. Admission is wheelchair accessible and free of charge. A photo gallery of the exhibition can be found here. You can also view all the projects created by students of the CTU Faculty of Architecture online; the first years have their web gallery.