Exhibition of Studio Projects
Housing Vršovice
Annotation
The plot is situated in the inner city, yet we can observe a place that resemble rather periphery than urban environment. The surroundings of Vršovice railway station represent one of the imaginary gates to Vršovice district and Vršovická street has a role of the district boulevard. Nevertheless, this place on the border of Nusle and Vršovice district lacks the character of a city. Vršovická street is more of a busy road than street for people and the environment around the station is vague. One way to avoid this vagueness is to define places, to give them purpose and character – to name them. I am designing a housing project on the plot under the Havličkovy sady park next to the unmaintained areal of the sports hall. Intensive housing. Prague is suffering from lack of apartments, so why n