DOMINIK VĂ CHA .16031995
@dominik_bon dom-bon.tumblr.com
2019
PERSONAL: Bc. DOMINIK VÁCHA *16031995 niki.vacha@gmail.com 00420777617721 PRAHA EDUCATION: 2019______ 2018-2019 2014-2018 2008-2014
Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague, master degree Faculteit Bouwkunde, TU Delft, Erasmus+ Faculty of Architecture. CTU in Prague, bachelor degree Grammar school Na Pražačce
WORKSHOPS AND COMPETITIONS: 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2017 2016 2015
Superstudio, student competition (w/ M. Waloszková, J. Mišík) Xella 2018 - Downtown Kerling, student competition project (w/ M. Waloszková, J. Mišík) Exhibition @ POKOJE VI- Eternal blossom (w/ J. Mišík) Workshop MáMA - one-week project, group design and building a 1:1 wooden object Superstudio, student compettiton (w/ J. Mišík) Xella 2017 - Moravská galerie, student competition project (w/ M. Waloszková, J. Mišík) Čítárna, student competiton, + Honorable mention Workshop Krásno - proposal for the town square
WORK EXPERIENCE: 2017-2018 2013
studio AsiMetr - internship, various projects, interiors and villa reconstruction Leidner und Partner GbR - two-week architecture praktikum in Lich, DE
LANGUAGE SKILLS: ENG-C1, DE-C1 (DSD II), CZ-native speeker SOFTWARE: Autocad, ArchiCAD, Rhinoceros, VRay, Sketchup, A. Photoshop, A. InDesign, MS Office INTERESTS: Sustainability, Gardening, Analog photography, Traveling, Cooking, Drawing
COMMUNITY CENTRE Sainte Croix STUDIO INTERIORS BUILDINGS CITIES, TU Delft, 2019 The idea behind the Ste Croix community centre is to provide a common domestic space with various functions to the residents of Liége (Wallonia), who pass through the district - mainly lower-income classes living northly from the centre. The building reinforces the square and offers an interior extension to the public space. There is an open, public lobby with a small bar on the ground floor, which serves as a gathering space, where the community presents itself to the city, where people meet to talk or can walk upstairs to the semi-private community spaces (where lectures, group activities, concerts and celebrations take place or can be rented), rooms of different sizes serve as a background for that. Vertical hierarchy, different materials and textiles mark the level of privacy of the space. The character of the building refers to the palaces, which it also represents – making a “face” to the ancient neighbourhood, which runs up the hill. In this sense, I want the building to serve as a “palace” for the ordinary. The facade mediates between domestic and representative. The structure is adaptable (in long-term) and can host different functions.
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The chambre enjoys a special position in the building, the piano nobile. It should be universal, serve for different purposes. A beam with a curtain, which itself could be an artwork, provides a division of the space into two zones. The room can be used in two dimensions - depending on the occasion. Virtually, it mirrors the square, which it faces. Although the building would not be intensively climate-controlled, I want to achieve a warm feeling through plywood cladding of the height 2,4 m. Underfloor heating and high ceiling make it ideal for occasions with many participants.
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ELEVATIONnorth SOUTHelevation 1:200
ELEVATIONeast EASTelevation 1:200
ELEVATIONsouth NORTHelevation 1:200
study sketches
HOUSING BŘEVNOV - BACHELOR THESIS As well as a building in a city determined by the scale of its surroundings, is a building in a natural landscape influenced by its dimensions. In this project on the boundary between urban and country-like atmosphere these two worlds merge together in an ensemble of buildings and trees. The atmosphere is distillated to a dense housing environment. Břevnov, although situated just a few kilometres from the very city centre, is a greatly green neighborhood with many gardens and parks. I studied the vegetation in a schwarzplan and created a „reverted urban design“, where the position of the buildings is actually defined according to existing trees, which are treated as inhabitants of the whole. They improve the microclimate and bring nature (bees, birds etc.) close to the residents. Furthermore, each dwelling is provided by a generous loggia / balcony, in order to provide a full-blown extension to the interior space and to let the occupants fully enjoy the view, or to be able to use the space as a little garden. Rain water is collected to water the trees and green roofs. The six buildings are connected by the ground floor with garages and facilities, they provide dwellings of different standards. Great emphasis was paid to create multiple layers of opennes / privacy within the complex. And so the innner courtyard forms a semi-public space for neighbour activities. The houses refer in floor plans and in details to villa architecture, try to be elegant and generous within the scope.
photo prom the book „Každý balkón záhradka“, 1985
STUDIO KUZEMENSKÝ, KUNAROVÁ, 2018
conceptual illustration
visualisations schwarzplan schwarzplan of the trees
visualisations of the courtyard
facade detail
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DOWNTOWN BANSKÁ ŠTIAVNICA STUDENT COMPETITION XELLA 2018 w/ Juraj Mišík, Marta Waloszková City known for it‘s great history and the engine of Slovak medieval society struggles with losing atractivity for young people and with deurbanisation. Is it possible for Banská Štiavnica to host a big residential project? Young people nowadays are globalised and see the world throught their computer, but they are also romantic people of new age, who want to be connected with their ancestors, roots and traditions. Cities like Banská Štiavnica can provide them with this idylic way of live in the middle of a beautiful landscape, but it can´t provide them big city culture, work opportunities and another metropolitian services they love so much. Combination of romantic and rational is the main idea behind the Downtown Kerling project. Structure is experimenting with completely new type of urban area - virtual city quarter. City which uses new kind of traffic, new way of moving through the world, namely moving world through yourself, thanks to the Virtual reality. There are three VR terminals within the area. Two are located over the former tobacco factory and serve for long distance jobs in as open office space. The third one, located in the Virtual basilica provides the inhabitants cultural opportunities of a metropolis (virtual philharmony, theatre, music club). Basilica, same as Christian or Roman basilica is a reproduction of current community needs, which in VR stands for thick walls without windows. Entry to the basillica is just a rectangular gate, which is modified in every VR, based on it´s owner expectation of actual action (e.g. club portal vs. theatre portal).
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PAVILION FOR VILLA KYTLICA STUDIO ZAT SODOMKOVÁ + BALEJOVÁ, 2015 //consultations with prof. Pierre von Meiss Functionalist colony BABA in Prague was built in early 30s as a manifestation of modern functionalist architecture in the Czech Republic. More than 80 years later, we tried to do an honour to this exceptional complex in form of little pavilions representing the best of the original villas, using contemporary forms and possibilities. My pavilion re-interprets the house n. 31 designed by a famous architect Josef Gočár. PURITY and SIMPLICITY are presented in an unusual version of raumplan, questioning the relationship between interior and exterior, defining space through visual connections and a walkthrough. Entering through underground, the visitor sets out on a way to the top, going through different rooms containing artefacts /symbols from the original villa. axonometric study of the villa
BABA colonny after completion
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usban setting of the pavilions and rectangular orchards
left: pictograms of the elements reinterpreted in the design: pergola, column, winter garden with plants, terrace, ribbon window, minimal rooms, posh furniture, view of Prague
right: sections through the pavilion
AFFORDABLE HOUSING Moráň STUIO NOVOTNÝ + KOŇATA + ZMEK, 2016 While social housing is being often discussed not just i political circles, Prague is slowly setting out on a way to a housing crisis, real estate prices increase rapidly and living in the capital isn’t affordable for many people anymore. The building is situated on a triangular, very exclusive municipal estate, directly in the city centre next to a monastery. I decided to fill the estate with an unexpected, rather controversial topic responding to the current situation in our country - MUNICIPAL TENEMENT I created a new variation of a traditional balcony house. The exterior access corridor is covered with expanded metal, serving as protection from busy a street on the north side, stressing the house‘s horizontality. It behaves almost as a part of an urban block, floating over a platform with a garden. Under the platform, there is a big car park. There is a commercial space along the street, with facilities (such as cellars, bicycle and laundry rooms) under it. Minimally-sized flats are all oriented to the east / south and towards the greenery. Thanks to the use of prefabrication and the house‘s simple form with only four types of units, the building process becomes faster and inexpensive. Economic rooms / studios are compensated with common spaces suited for socializing, such as balcony corridors and public roofs with community gardens. There are 51 flats and 65 parking spaces.
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elevations east and north
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NEW GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART in Brno COMPETITION PROJECT, 2017 +JURAJ MIŠÍK + MARTA WALOSZKOVÁ
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Collage depicting the piazzetta
This project was mainly about the question of how contemporary art should be exhibited. The building is meant to never get old, to be timeless, to sustain the contemporary look for as long as possible. We noticed a parallel between the new building and the old monastery, where the Moravian gallery exhibits today and. Located on the edge of the old city centre, both serve to the society, concentrate energy. The building is wrapped in a grid, connecting all theentire volume under one sheet, much like the old monasteries were under one facade. In the middle, there is a “paradise garden” with a big old tree, encircled by a cloister. The old and new galleries face each other over a rectangular piazzetta, which serves as an alternative to crowded squares in the city centre. From the piazzetta, there is entry to the hall for interior art openings, performances, banquets, vernissages, etc. It is meant to be something like an interior park, a place to enrich the quarters cultural identity. All the exhibitions are accessible through the cloister.
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The gallery is as functional and variable as possible
PRAŽSKÉ POKOJE - The Eternal Garden + J. Mišík, M. Waloszková At this Room, you can walk through an eternal garden made of plastic flowers, made to remind us of those, who are gone. Iluminated by a gloomy light, this everlasting bloom stands for the ephemerality of the body. All of the artificial plants come from dumpsters at Prague cemeteries.
SUPERSTUDIO 2018 - The Value of Architecture + J. Mišík, M. Waloszková Materialisation of social stratification. Social and material wealth as a contradiction, superposition of values. Each layer gives a function to the system. Equality is a false god. To invest immense amout of money -get rid of them - to escape from the system to a happy life in the garden of Eden. To build a wooden hut on the top of a skyscraper.
the salvation
analogy to hausmanian social stratification in the 21st century
WOODEN OBJECT SUMMER WORKSHOP, Studio MáMA One week, 17 students, 2 tutors. The object connects two roads across a frequented path through a park near the Faculty of Architecture.
photographed by VIC: Jiří Ryszawy, studio MáMA