WANISHED STREAMS OF PRAGUE

Rivers are unique natural elements, which have along with lanscapes become an indelible part of the image of towns, as opposed to streams,whose historical traces have often been wiped out. Streams were first confined into concrete beds, the bottoms of which were deep under the surface of the surrounding terrain. In some areas they were even covered by concrete panels and dissapeared from our view completely. They submerged into the darkness. And its other portions, which stayed on the surface, have never become parts of towns. The housing areas, as well as urban parks, are turning away from them. Streams have vanished behind barriers of greenery, which are visually almost as impervious as concrete walls would be. Streams have a great potential within the framework of a town. Their function is to be the town's living natural axis, an oasis in the context of urban territory. The aim of the work is to trace and reveal the stream Botič back into the urban structure in Výtoň and Nusle and to create a pleasant place for recreation and life along the stream's valley, which connects individual urban parks.