Portfolio Marek Vilášek 2015 - 2019
Marek Vilášek facebook.com/marek.vilasek vilasekmarek@gmail.com +47 967 49 104 behance.net/vilasekmarek /in/marek-vilášek-087798139/
I am Marek Vilášek, a 26-year-old architect from Czechia, currently living in Oslo. During my studies, I moved from CTU in Prague to KU Leuven in Belgium, where I finished my Master thesis, under the tutoring by Martino Tattara from the DOGMA architectural office. I have spent last year working in a very different cultural context - in a small architectural practice called Aileen & Sage in Australia. My Australian experience was very intense and I have learned well to work in a foreign country, how to accommodate quickly and become an essential member of the team. However, the architecture in Australia lacks vision and persuasion of higher goals such as sustainability, cultural integration or relationship to history. This is the reason why I’m looking for a job in Norway now, the country where architecture still has its significant importance and architects are working towards a better future for all of us. Please, take a look at my portfolio. Leaf through softly, you are browsing through my dreams.
Work experience:
• Aileen & Sage Architects | August 2018 - February 2019 | Sydney, Australia
I participated in numerous individual housing projects in all stages of development as well as on competitions and large scale public projects for the Sydney government
• A69 architects | June 2016 - October 2017 (part-time) | Prague, Czechia
I worked as an intern on medium and large-scale projects, cooperating on the design, making the architectural drawings and models
• Zdeněk Zavřel Architects | autumn 2015 | Prague, Czechia
Together we attended the international architectural competition for a proposal of Biocentrum and Globcentrum building for Charles University in Prague
Language proficiency:
• English | C1-C2 IELTS exam • Czech | Native • Norwegian | Beginner • Dutch | Beginner
Education:
• KU Leuven | 2017 - 2018 International master of Architecture | Resilient and Sustainable Strategies | Master degree - magna cum laude
• CTU in Prague | 2013 - 2017 Architecture and Urbanism | Bachelor degree
• Secondary School of Civil Engineering in Val. Meziříčí | 2008 - 2012 Civil Engineering | Graduation exam
Software skills:
• Expert | AutoCAD, Photoshop, Sketchup, Vectorworks • Advanced | Indesign, Vray, MS Office • Intermediate | Illustrator, Revit, Rhinoceros, Premiere
Awards and honours: • Van Hove Prijs best diploma project award in Belgium | 2018 final shortlist • Olověný Dušan a student project of the year at CTU | 2016 final shortlist • Church square Ostrava an architectural competition | 2017 3rd place • Bydlení IQ a student architectural competition | 2015 final shortlist • Partyhaus winning project for a modular party interior | 2015 1st place
Vocational activities:
• Workshop Nižbor | 2015 | voluntary architecture workshop
construction of the playground for children, made from living willow branches
• What design can do?! Refugee Challenge | 2016 | design competition
proposal of mobile units for refugee camps, made from unused train wagons
• Workshop Tanvald | 2015 | voluntary architecture workshop
proposal of the development strategy for the city centre of Tanvald
• Mood for Wood | 2017 | international architecture workshop
the design and realization of the wooden furniture for Poznan in Poland
• Rhookah | since 2017 | brand and website design
development of the graphic identity of starting company selling design shishas
• Biggmag | 2017 | editor in a magazine
editing the articles about architecture for young czech contemporary magazine
Exhibitions and Publications:
• KooZA/rch | 2019 | https://www.koozarch.com/
publication of two of my projects on a website devoted to visionary architecture
• Anatomy | 2017 | NEST creative hub - Ghent - Belgium
showcase of student works from the design studio of Jo van der Berghe
• Drawing out | 2017 | Vlaamse Architectuurinstituut - Antwerp - Belgium
exhibition of drawings in dialogue with the masterpieces of Boyarsky collection
• Pokoje (Rooms) | 2016 | Containall - Prague - Czech Republic
experimental installation on the exhibition of young art in the abandoned house
Contents Restart for the Coast 8-17 Adaptivo 18-23 Šrámek Square 24-27 Raumplan Flats 28-33 Dissecting the detail 34-37 Bridge of houses 38-43 Rocking Beds 44-47 Infinite Playground 48-51 Měcholupy common 52-55 Path of Life 56-67 Rooms 68-69 Refugee trains 70-73 MA in Architecture 74-75 Srbsko common 76-79
Restart for the Coast Complex strategy for Belgian coastline territory
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Master Thesis | 2018 | tutor: Martino Tattara
By thorough research, I have tried to uncover and define complex problems that Belgian coastline has and propose a long-term strategy for the future. This strategy extends over multiple scales and aims to catalyze a positive change of the region. Change towards the new coast, where settlements have a more meaningful relationship with the territory, where regular inhabitants are not left out forgotten. In large scale I have designed is a strengthening infrastructural armature which is adding new slow-mobility network At the same time, it works as a stabilizing element for new development, which is redefining the seams between the built and the landscape. In a small scale, I have focused on an abandoned holiday park with trailer housed and proposed its transformation into the new settlements. By retaining the infrastructure, I am allowing the change to happen gradually and sustainably.
fig1 Territorial scheme On the territorial scale, I aimed to recreate meaningful relationships between different kind of landscapes and the settlements, The infrastructure, in this case, works as a stabilizing element to prevent further urban sprawl. 8
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fig3 Reconnecting the dunes with the agricultural landscape and opening them for people
fig4 Addition of path and bike path on the seam between the settlement and open landscape
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fig5 The Armature By adding new slow-mobility armature, I am defining the new areas for missing public amenities as well as areas which should be demolished to recreate landscape relationships and promote biodiversity.
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fig7 From urban sprawl towards a new settlement The interest in holiday resorts on Belgian coastline is gradually fading. These areas are taking huge portions of valuable open space. I am proposing to reconnect the landscapes in some areas and to transform the others into the new settlements, which would accommodate the influx of people coming to live at the coastline. The diagrams on the left show how the transformation can happen over the next 80 years.
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fig8 Flexible housing unit Belgium is characterized by a large portion of single family houses on the housing market and most people desiring their own house. I am not going against this tradition, but rather trying to innovate it. The inner space is divided into the core, which contains all technical rooms and storages, and liberated double-height space. The steel structure is providing the possibility to subdivide the space by placing another floor level. By this, the inner space of the house can vary from 80 to 110 sqm, allowing a range of spatial possibilities for different users.
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fig9 View from the private garden towards the housing unit, the street is shared space for pedestrians
fig10 Holiday park in transformation into the new settlement
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fig11 Flexibility for greater sustainability By allowing the inhabitants to easily transform their living space inside the houses, I am reducing the need to demolish the house and build a new one. Because of the fact, that the ceiling panels are lightweight, the basic inner expansion can be done without the crane or any partial demolitions. The house can grow and shrink according to the needs of its users. A. Low-cost house for a couple - basic version of the housing unit B. Workshop on the ground floor and one bedroom upstairs C. House for a single family - double-height space is entirely subdivided by the floor slab D. Spacious house for a couple - double-height space is recreated as the slab is removed
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fig12 Detailed plan of the new settlement
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Adaptivo Searching for sustainability in maximal flexibility
Design Studio 5th year | 2017 | tutor: Dieter de Vos, Patrick Moyersoen, Bram Aerts, Matteo Paracchini
In today’s turbulent times, it is necessary to respond to ever-accelerating demands for flexibility and a change of functions in the buildings we inhabit. In my proposal, I explore the possibility of quick adaptation of the internal function of the building, between producing and living, using easily replaceable elements within a durable rigid structure. The space I propose is naked and flexible, capable to contain anything while maintaining architectural quality. The building becomes The Place to work and dwell in.
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fig1 Rigid structure & modular infills Faรงade fillings embedded in a rigid construction can be easily replaced and react to actual internal function by their design and material solutions. For a living, wooden boards and lighter shades are chosen; for the workshop, on the contrary, metal plates of a larger scale, which can withstand the rougher treatment. Half of the balcony area is reserved for circulation, while the other is always the part of the adjacent workshop or the flat.
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fig2 Typical plan & Section Within the skeleton structure of 12x9 meters, the base modular unit, which can be rented in the building, is 25 m2. By multiplying this area, you can create an apartment or workspace of any size.
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fig3 Building is blending into its industrial neighbourhood
fig4 Inner space of the courtyards is a catalyst for social interactions
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fig5 Detail of the ground floor The material solution promotes inner usage in the ground floor for small scale workshops or businesses as well as shops.
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Šrámek Square Cleaning up cathedral‘s foreground
3rd prize in Architectural competition | 2017 | team: Radka Komrsová
The Cathedral of the Divine Savior is the key building of the square. Through its mass, it directly defines the individual sub-spaces of different atmospheres and characters. Sadly, its surroundings are used mainly as a car park and are filled with various types of pavements and many different kinds of street furniture nowadays. By our design, we made the cathedral the centre of events again and underlined its importance. Its internal spatial arrangement is consistent with the exteriors, and these become its indirect sequels. By using a few types of quality materials, reducing the car mobility and adding more space for pedestrians we are making this leftover area an important city square again.
fig1 Cathedral as the strongest element Our proposal is not trying to compete with the cathedral itself. We are rather cleaning up the visual smog around it to make it excel again. 24
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fig2 Marble podium in front of the cathedral The area in front of the church is currently used as a parking lot. We are returning it its importance and providing elevated open preparation space for weddings, worship services or funerals.
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fig3 Perspective of cathedral’s foreground
fig4 Linden bosquet is serving as a relaxation space for students of the nearby university
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Raumplan Flats Innovation inspired by Adolf Loos‘s classic
Bachelor Thesis | 2016 | tutor: Boris Redčenkov, Vítězslav Danda
Raumplan was at the time a quite revolutionary concept and it overturned the previous thinking about architecture. A house was no longer only a matter of individual floors of the same height, layered on top of each other, but became a complicated spatial structure of continuously flowing space. The principles that Adolf Loos defined are still used in many family houses today. In apartment buildings, unfortunately, similar thinking applies extremely rarely despite its many advantages. That is why I decided to explore this way. I created an apartment building with as many spatial and typological variations as possible. The plan consists of nine squares. In the middle one, a staircase is located, lit by an indoor atrium. Thanks to the fact that the staircase rises always in the corners of the atrium by 800 mm, it creates a module that allows me to place an entrance to the apartment at any height level in multiples of this height.
fig1 Raumplan - from Villa Müller to residential building
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fig3 View from the common rooftop terrace
fig4 Perspective from the river Vltava, groundfloor is commercial, 1st floor is for garages
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Bridge of Houses Experimenting with economical profitability
Design Studio 4th year | 2017 | tutor: Ondřej Císler, Miroslav Pazdera
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fig1 Schematical Axonometry The circulation passes through the heart of each building and links all levels of the bridge and floors of the house. The deck is doubled for structural reasons. I used to create two levels - one for the normal movement of pedestrians, trams, and cars; the other one for parking and bicycle traffic. 38
fig2 Position The bridge stands on the location, where the connection is very needed, between HoleĹĄovice and KarlĂn in Prague. This location is defined also by the development plan for Prague. 39
fig3 Detailed elevation Despite its monumentality, the bridge maintains the quality across the scales. You want to watch it from afar, but also to come nearer and touch it.
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fig5 The Deck of the bridge The surface of the bridge is serving to the transportation of course, but also as a space for markets and various cultural events.
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Rocking Beds Making innovative street furniture for Poznań Mood for Wood workshop | 2017 | tutor: Mikołaj Smoleński team: Marta Schmidt, Zsófia Berczi, Paulina Cziba, Jakub Brahmi, Igor Jansen, Gabriela Zofia Szalanska
Mood for Wood is an international workshop aimed for students of design degrees interested in actual project realisation. During one week, we worked in teams to develop the project into its existence from scratch, learned how to work with wood and operate joinery machinery. We build 3 rocking-beds (something much bigger then rocking chair) for an outside amphitheatre. You can relax looking at a riverside, enjoining warm wind and a cold shadow. Every piece is different. One even can fit shape to our body, just like in hammock. Their form is simple, geometric same as a context around.
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fig1 Rocking bed We built three different prototypes to provide a variety of different sittings and to test the limits of plywood as a material.
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Infinite Playground Living low budget playground-maze for children
Workshop Nižbor | 2016 | team: Kryštof Vicherek, Martina Urbanová, Tomáš Veselý
It was not difficult to put yourself in the skin of young children, because we are all still a bit like them. We have not designed any sterile unified euroshimbles, but a completely natural and vibrant maze. Children are thrown into a whirlwind of fun that grabs them and doesn’t let go. We’ve also gotten ourselves in the skins of our parents, and we can guarantee that their babies in the maze will be lost for a few hours so they can enjoy peace and quiet. The maze was built over a few days by us and a couple of volunteers, out of living willow branches. These are continuing to grow after they are planted, the playground is thus becoming a living organism.
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fig1 Initial sketch We aimed to create diverse and interesting environment, full of individual spaces, hideouts orientated inward.
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Měcholupy Common Reconnecting tradition with future development
Architectural competition | 2018 | team: Radka Komrsová
Due to its proximity to the capital city of Prague, Mecholupy has transformed from a small lively village into a mediumsize satellite, where inhabitants only return to sleep. However, the former centre has kept its classical urbanism and character, which we are trying to revive and strengthen. A busy road which is currently running through the village will be moved further in the nearest future. We are taking this as a starting point and returning the village commons to the inhabitants. We are considering the outdoor space as a living room of the village with many different places – rooms – with various functions. At the same time, the village centre is also part of a larger urban and landscape area even though the mutual bonds were broken over time. We are reconnecting the village commons with the surroundings by new transversal pedestrian connections and making the landscape accessible again.
fig2 Axonometry of the common The main aim was to create multiple zones for different events and to reconnect the common with nature at the outskirts. fig1 Making the landscape accessible 52
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fig3 Detailed plan A typical Czech village is characterized by soft transitions between individual surfaces, usually at one height level. That is why we also propose the main road in the area of the village at the same level as the surroundings. The side and circular paths are made of rounded granite cubes, the pavement is out of smaller granite blocks.
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Path of life Recovering a narrative inside Old town of Bruges Design studio 4th year | 2017 | tutor: Jo Van Den Berghe, Mira Sanders team: Jiřà Vala, Timothy Ghyssaert
We discovered a sequence of spaces in the immediate surroundings of the Church of Our Lady in Bruges. Outer spaces defined by walls filled with details and hidden potentials which intrigued us to their further investigation. All of those spaces appealed to us as separate rooms with a strong connection through the enfilade of doors, gates and viewing axes. They are connected with its common path we discovered and decided to follow and listen to all the whispering pointing towards us. Each room has its unique atmosphere created by the specific key elements and details. After a deeper examination, the background narrative of the path of life came to the surface. With our design, we work with the emotion of each room in a straight connection to the path and enhancing the atmosphere through the language of architecture and architectural detail.
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fig2 Pre-existence A place so flawless and perfect, it feels even inhuman. Alienated. It‘s the space out of this world, too perfect for us to be able to spend a longer time. The sphere as the most perfect geometric shape in the universe. We as human beings are not suited for such perfection. No edges or corners to hold on to. No fixed point letting you create the precise idea of space or its dimensions.
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fig3 Moment of Birth The promise of space behind that wall that makes you wonder and raises questions. A dismantling couple of bricks could reveal something not yet known. Right after passing through the door you‘re drawn by that wall. The gable, the only trace left behind. A mysterious retreat defending you from the outer world. You need to dare that first step and climb through the tunnel and reach the safe shelter. 58
fig4 A hint of secret space behind
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fig6 Sequence of spaces Our project is set into the medieval town of Bruges. We discovered a series of spaces, which are communicating with each other. By gentle architectural interventions, we are recreating the narrative of the path of life and strengthening their atmosphere.
fig7 Moment of Birth - Elevation showing the relationship with the Church of Our Lady 60
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fig8 Levitating marble dome - axonometry
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fig10 Levitating marble dome - detail The great emphasis during the semester was placed on sketching and tracing as a tool in the design process and on the section, as the most important architectural drawing. We tried to create innovative details and consulted frequently with the structural engineer.
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fig11 Afterlife The final destination. The tunnel leading into the darkness down below. Large steps, descending in the ground, guide you further on. It is necessary to sneak through the tight gap around the foundations to finally reach the space beneath the dome. It‘s too dark to see, but the feel of foundations substitute your eyesight. 64
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fig12 Exhibition Our work was shown at the final exhibition in the NEST creative lab in Ghent and then again at Vlaams Architectuurinstituut as a part of the exhibition Drawing Out - in dialogue with the drawings from the Boyarsky collection. Our project was published on KoozArch in the year 2018.
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Rooms Undermining the exhibition of young art
Art Exhibition “Pokoje” | 2016 | team: Šimon Jiráček, Radka Komrsová, Martina Urbanová
Can imaginary students of non-art school take part in the art exhibition? Or is this just closed environment bubble only for a selected few? We signed to take part in this exhibition as fictional students of the Faculty of transportation science and were admitted. This experiment shows that not always have all the showcased artworks such a meaningful and deep concept as it looks like at first sight and sometimes they might be even very banal in the end.
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fig1 The ‘Art’
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Refugee trains Low-cost accommodation right at hand
24 Hours competition | 2016 | team: Martina Urbanovรก
At the time we worked on the project, the migration of thousands was European theme number one. Many of them were followed the rail routes towards western Europe and was forced to stay for long weeks at the closed borders afterwards. Where to accommodate masses of refugees? Where to provide them with temporary dignified sanctuary as they pass through Europe? Our answer is rail, Europe as such is interwoven with rail transport in all directions. The object of our interest was the railway wagon cemetery in the Czech Republic, where more than 130 obsolete, but functional wagons are waiting to be dismantled. Our proposal is to transform the wagons into a habitable form that can provide temporary accommodation across Europe. This solution would be very cheap, fast and effective.
fig1 Overlooked possiblity Many of these wagons are parked in one place in the Czech Republic, waiting to be dismantled.
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fig2 Migrants forced to wait on the railway station in Serbia
fig3 Refugees occupying every available space at Budapest main railway station
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fig4 Wagons can be connected by simple wooden bridges
fig5 One wagon can accommodate up to 16 or 20 refugees
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fig6 Plan variations We propose not only bedrooms but also sanitary wagons, living rooms and a common kitchen with the dining.
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MA in Architecture Interpretation of time & space relationship
Elective studio 4th year | 2018 | tutor: Tomas Ooms
The topic of this studio was to find your interpretation of the
Thirty spokes meet in the hub
Japanese concept of MA in architecture.
Though the space between the
Architecture and all the other things are not just made up of
Pots are formed from clay
matter, the matter is just an instrument, which is defining
Though the space inside them
these things. But it is not space around the mass either, because we can’t perceive it without the existence of time.
Walls with windows and doors
These three elements are bounded together and form our
Though the space within is the
reception of reality. I think of the concept of MA in architecture as a perception of space changing over time and by our doings. We as
fig2 Old japan poem
architects use a mass as the basic element to define this unmeasurable value in architecture. It is the aspect of human movement and dwelling in the space, so the doings, for which architecture arises and this is the reason why we build. But this relationship works also in a reverse. The right constellation of mass and time-space interval may affect our perceptions and behaviour. Stepping stones as the path in the garden can serve for an example. Their rhythm, placement, orientation and size, gently force us to go in a certain direction, to go faster or to slow down a little. MA is the relationship between time, space and human perception and these elements form the essence of Architecture.
fig1 ji-kan - japanese symbol for time-space
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fig4 My interpretation of MA captured in
em is the essence of the wheel.
m is the essence of the pot
s form the house
e essence of the house
fig3 MA in Greek temples - preparation before the entry
1st version
Importance of Ma between public and sacred
In ancient Greek and Roman temples, great emphasis was placed on the hierarchy of separation beetween public and sacred space. Through an interval of staircase, portico, and entrance portal, perception of man is prepared for sacredness inside. This proves that the concept of Ma is not only present in Japanese architecture but we can watch it in most of the great buildings. Schematical section of Temple of Mars Ultor - Ancient Rome
a section showing different relationships between time and space in architecture
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Srbsko common Strengthening the backbone of the village
Architectural competition | 2018 | team: Jiřà Vala
Only one main backbone passes through the municipality, but today, it is perceived rather as a negative element due to the high concentration of cars. The real backbone is now completely missing in the village and the spaces that could form it are in a poor state. In our design, we focus on this key chain of spaces on the eastern bank of the Berounka River, through subtle architectural interventions, we renew the village centre and bring a new life into it. We emphasize the preservation of the softness and certain day-to-day routine that characterizes the village - not only in curves and architectural forms but also in materials and transitions between them.
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fig1 The village common - the place for events and ordinary life
fig2 Precincts of the chapel - the place for contemplation, weddings and funerals
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fig3 Village plan
fig4 Simple podium for events, shaded by the trees
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fig5 Main tree in the village - linden
fig6 Precincts of the chapel
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