JAKUB KOPEC/PORTFOLIO/2018-2016
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CONTENT: VICTORY SQUARE 4 NEW PARK 10 #OK 16 I AM NOT HERE, I AM IN ARCADIA 22 FULL HOUSE 26 CITY INTERVENTIONS 32 VIRTUAL BEHRENS 36 HOUSE IN STONE QUARRY SLUM 40 SQUARE/PARK 50 AFFECTIVE MOVEMENTS 56 FOLIES 60 TUNNEL 64 APARTMENT CHOREOGRAPHY 68 BARRIER-FREE COTTAGE 72 23 76
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VICTORY SQUARE/competition entry/co-author Filip Kusák/in cooperation with Tomáš Džadoň, Klára Zahradníčková, Luboš Zbranek/Praha/2018 The project was triggered by an obligatory plan to build up the north-western quadrant, whose ongoing activities such as weekend farmers markets or various not only students festivals indicate what is the existing potential of incomplete square and what will be the most missing factor after its completion - just ideal emptiness of generous, diverse and user-open public space. The design of adaptation the Victory Square returns this central public space of the municipal district Prague 6 to its users through three initial principles of concept - the reorganization of traffic flows linked to opening of inner areas to pedestrians and cyclists, the contemporary interpretation of Engels geometrical organization of square and the preservation of spaces for free movement as well as for possibility to place ephemeral or other small-scale architectural objects.
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NEW PARK/public contract/co-authors Klára Zahradníčková, Tomáš Džadoň, in cooperation with Ondřej Fous, Luboš Zbranek/Leopoldov/2017 A revitalization of a former croft cementary to a park with playing equipment for children transforms the forgotten walk-through garden to the place of active relaxation for each and every generation. The design is based on three principles - an activation of park borders, an enabling of free movement on its inner area and an addition of new objects to the existing ones.
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#OK/exhibition architecture/curators Mária Janušová, Erik Vilím/visual identity Pinchof/Jozef Kollár Gallery, Banská Štiavnica/2018 Architecture of the XII. Triennale of Small Object and Drawings, focused on the object-oriented ontology, plays with the least attractive and at the same time the largest object inside the exhibition space - faded heavy-duty carpet. It is transformed from the only superficial covering of gallery floors into spacemaking element, which correlates with different levels of exhibition rooms and plinths and creates a new topography undulated similar to the landscape of Banská Štiavnica. Besides the landscape of carpet is topological, it keeps a geometrical continuity of the original floor plan. Its folds partially uncover floor screeds and partially recycle or cover useless exhibition elements. A visitorwayfarer discovers art pieces situated in this landscape, (s)he can walk through or have a rest within for a while.
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I AM NOT HERE, I AM IN ARCADIA/exhibition architecture /curator Maria Janušová/graphic design Aurélia Garová, Tereza Maco/Nitra/2018 Architectural adjustments disrupted the centre line of the exhibition area that used to be a hallway connecting the exhibition rooms located by its sides. The dividing walls raised in the central hallway cost it both its dominance and its purpose, but expanded the Representative Halls of the Nitra Gallery by adding additional rooms. The new architectural layout resembles a labyrinth - the visitor is forced to keep exploring the exhibition area and search for new ways out or deeper inside the exhibition. The labyrinth symbol is also a part of the exhibition concept that refers to ancient philosophy and mythology in many ways. (Curatorial text)
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FULL HOUSE/exhibition architecture/co-author Filip Kusák /curatorial research Petra Hlaváčková, Barbora Benčíková /graphic design Anna Hrabalová/light design Pavel Richtr, Ladislav Mirvald/Brno/2017 The Alfa Passage, the multi-purpose palace in the Brno city centre, has been existing for eighty years. On the occasion of this anniversary an exhibition of a house in the house was created. The scale model 1:33 stands for the mass interpretation of the building, which spatial connections reveal through the characteristic longitudinal section along the passage, where the model is exhibited. The stereotomic mass formation substitutes for the tectonic composability of the building, its folds produced via CNC milling machine follow rather the living space of its users than the structural principles of the functionalist palace. During the 20th century the fundamental historical events were mirrored in this building. The curatorial research mediated through the exhibition catalogue reflects the architectural, historical and political aspects of the house transformations and their impact on the current image of the place.
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CITY INTERVENTIONS/exhibition architecture/co-author Filip Kusák/curators Jakub Kořínek, Lenka Sedláčková /graphic design Kutululu/House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno/2017 The installation transformed a street network of the city Brno onto surfaces of the exhibition hall in its centre. Each one of city interventions was exhibited as a model object, through which its author interpreted the idea of this intervention.
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VIRTUAL BEHRENS/installation/curator Ivana Rumanová /Working Exhibition, New Synagogue, Žilina/2017 The architekt Jakub Kopec decided to complement and make present the visions of Peter Behrens in the space of the Nová synagóga, using virtual reality. In the end, he turned out to be equally interested in the central area of the dome and Behrens's absolute ideas as in the strange space of absence beneath it. If we were to make the dome into a complete spherical object in space, it would not touch the ground but rather levitate above it at the height of 68 cm. Jakub Kopec already worked with this specific space once in his Pódium (Stage) project of 2013. This time he addresses it in a completely different manner and using completely different means, but even now he transforms the space of deviation or imperfections of construction into a space for play, a possibility for a human being to enter or play with the architecture. (Curatorial text)
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HOUSE IN STONE QUARRY SLUM/private contract /Brno/since 2010 In the project is merging a topography of the stone quarry with the original workers house, which is a part of the monumental heritage complex of the former slum. The building programme circulates through the new topography of the house. A sequence of confined rooms of the existing building is adapted into the generous living space, which is opened to the daylight rare in this area.
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SQUARE/PARK/competition entry/co-author Klára Zahradníčková, in cooperation with Luboš Zbranek /park in Moravian Square, Brno/2016 The Moravian Square forms a transition in between a park system of the Brno ring road and a paved pedestrian zone of the city centre. The cityness is represented through the paving of its surfaces, the parkness thereafter through the form of underpassable tree tops which protect the generous square/park against the sunshine. The design loosens too exposed centre of the park through a concentration of cultural activities along its circumference. These activities try to resuscitate the park surroundings without disturbing the relaxing character of its inner area. The existing peripheral pavement is conspicuously enlarged (up to approx. 20 metres) to enable i. a. temporary buildings placement to relieve its excessive building on a spatially limited squares in the city centre. The inner park area is integrated with stabilized soil which enables free passing of pedestrians as well as provides a relaxing area in such generosity missing in the central area of the city. New surfaces and city furniture follow the existing ones which are in accordance with the project and don't fulfil their lifespan. On the circumference of the park can be used existing mobile buildings and furnishings.
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AFFECTIVE MOVEMENTS/research project/co-author Darinka Pilári/New Generation Museum, Žďár nad Sázavou/2016 Is a staircase just a vertical communication or does it offer also something more? Spiral stairs in the New Generation Museum in Žďár nad Sázavou were tested through improvised movement of a dancer. She reacted to the space limits of staircase and the range of motion sensor which recorded her, as well as more and more to her own caprices.
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FOLIES/festival architecture/in cooperation with Tomáš Řepa and Ladislav Mirvald/Malá Amerika, Brno/2016 An installation in a railway station storehouse reorganizes its interior according to needs of the 2nd International Comic Festival KOMA. A medium is a stretch foil tight in between inner structural elements which serves also as a billboard for exhibited comic strips.
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TUNNEL/landscape installation /co-authors Tomáš Tholt, Marián Lucký/Dúbravica/2016 An installation within the workshop Landscape Revisited 5 creates a shortcut on a path connecting art interventions in a landscape frame of Central Slovak village Dúbravica. Except the path itself the clearing through impenetrable shrubbery is a source of material for its further overgrowing protection.
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APARTMENT CHOREOGRAPHY/research project/Brno/2016 I'm entering into my studio flat, running music on my notebook, coffee is boiling on the kitchen cabinet, I'm pouring and drinking it on the sofa.
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BARRIER-FREE COTTAGE /private contract/Frýdlant nad Ostravicí/2016 An adaptation extends the existing cottage to the slope and rebuilds it for a barrier-free using. The new building volume is designed with a respect to topography of the Ondřejník hillside, which it escalates in the manner of the Beskydy mountains rock formations.
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23 /competition entry/graphic design Marek Chmiel /Brno-Kohoutovice/2016 A new building of the city hall with cultural auditorium forms a transition in between low-rise public amenities/ older buildings and nine-storey-prefab T06B. This house owned by the city poses the most economical (already existing) space reserve of the new building. Instead of a required parking house it is proposed parking along the LibuĹĄina avenue. It is more reasonable to invest to its regeneration creating alive public space, which can serve out of cultural events and city hall opening hours as a promenade or a market place. The terraced volume of the new building extends a public space of the street onto its roof, its large stairs creates seasonal cultural scene and brings to the prefab a new meaning of lookout platform to the valley of the Svratka river (Kohoutovice housing estate is the highest placed one in Brno). The design uses elevation of the avenue towards the prefab, except the house-auditorium it is a housebridge over the existing park paths and infrastructural networks.
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6102-8102/OILOFTROP/CEPOK BUKAJ