Jakub skokan

The exhibition “Making of a Forest” is based on the current state of Czech forestry. It presents the keystones of forest-based production, forest maintenance and logging. The visual material for the exhibition was created over the course of one year and represents a time-lapse record of the 100-year-long cycle of a forest. It captures the process of cultivation of trees, logging and the transformation of trees into wood. The exhibition reflects the cultural conception of a forest. We’re passing through an urban environment, through exhibition halls whose visual and structural nature makes reference to the “temples” of our civilization. The photographic representation calls into question the very dichotomy nature vs. culture, art and indu... More

Architect: Mjölk architects Website: www.mjolk.cz Contact e-mail: [email protected] Project location: Prague, Vinohradská 166 Project year: 2016 Completion year: 2017 Project size: interior Site size: 136 m2 Photo credits: Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice www.boysplaynice.com Collaboraters: Klára Šůmová www.klarasumova.com, Václav Dvořák www.studiovd.cz Client: Janošík www.janosik.cz / window and door design and manufacture / The way the Janošík Company promote themselves, be it their visual identity or advertising new products, made such an impression on us that we immediately accepted the offer to remodel their showroom in Prague. It is located on the ground floor of a block of flats from the period of the First Rep... More

Built in the small town of Humpolec in the Czech Republic in 2005, the now iconic Rusty House demonstrated the possibilities of working with a relatively small and tight parcel with numerous limitations. The house was built with exposed materials in their raw state: polished concrete floors, an exposed galvanised steel structure forming the basic axis of the house, corrugated sheet metal covered with concrete for the ceiling and a concrete screed as the final wall finish. The entire exterior of the house is clad with pre-rusted sheet metal (CorTen). The landscaping of the garden forms an integral part of the project, and therefore, after being originally shunned by the public, the house naturally blends into the neighboring line of... More

AUTHOR: Vit Maslo, David Richard Chisholm PROJECT ARCHITECT: Jan Hrebicek COLLABORATORS: Dan Simpach, Gabriela Sekyrova ARCHITECT of RECORD: CMCARCHITECTS REALIZATION: CMCARCHITECTS, BAUSTAV a.s. INTERIORS: ALNUS BoysPlayNice In a small community in the Western region of the Czech Republic, not far from the spa town of Karlovy Vary, this villa was designed as a recreational house for an accomplished man, his family and friends. The architect’s intention was essentially to assimilate the romantic context of this small village, posited just under the massive cliffs and ruins of a Gothic castle, where the town originated. Andelska Hora (originally in German Engelsburg), belongs to a protected area of the country, and sits above 600... More

Presented apartment is situated in Prague Letna district in building constructed in 1938. The building is under protection of heritage department. That can be seen in public areas as well as in each apartment. Some valuable elements as existing doors or special glass cladding behind the heating radiators are preserved. Main concept is based on these elements and an appropriate additions to them. All over area of the apartment is aprox. 120 sqm and most of the area is dedicated to the living zone. Significantly smaller is bedroom with glassed walk-in closet. Historical survey of the building discovered some pictures where big glassed door where shown. So replica of this door was used in the entrance hall to make the space very Luce... More