Juraj Mišík↓

About the work

Promised Pankrác

#sustainability #border #sport #wilderness #dwelling #colonnade #growing something

What is your graduation work about?

My graduation work is a puzzle in a collective work. We pursue the sensitive transformation of the inner periphery, the modification of Prague’s north-south arterial road, and the contact between the business architecture and our ideals of the city of tomorrow. In my work, I seek the meaning of the city boundary (the built landscape) and the Prague slope (the vague landscape). I design a “terrace” above the landscape, similar to the cities of Kutná Hora, Urbino, and Pienza. I create the urban façade via sports, social, cooperative, and collective housing, connected by a permeable colonnade. I design the boundaries as a natural-agrarian park with educational, leisure, and productive functions. A gardening colony. I do not change the surrounding paths too much; maybe I will add some trails where one won’t slip after rain. An amphitheater and perhaps something more will spruce up the slope in the manner of Classical Antiquity.

What do you do besides your graduation work?

Apart from my graduation work, I’d like to focus on walking, smaller projects from the sphere of architecture, and maintaining well-being and love (hopefully). I’m also partly into sports and employment (subcontracting).

In what conditions would you like to work on your graduation work?

I want to create (and, so far, I do) my graduation work under relaxed conditions, knowing there is plenty of rainfall. I want everyone, in our collective at least, to have the same.

What would you imagine to be an alternative culmination of your studies at AVU, in place of the defense of your graduation work?

I find defenses good provided everyone involved has pedagogical skills and can get past their subjective views of art/artchitecture in their comments. I think this is the right approach to graduation. Other possible endings: perhaps presenting the diploma to wider audiences as an effort to achieve something? I guess an exhibition opening would suffice for that purpose. Perhaps a happening of some kind? Ummm, a party? Defending a graduation work is a relatively free event, open to multiple manners of turning them in and advocating them and to lots of approaches. This characteristic renders the process variability in what a diplomate considers a diploma work is. I cannot think of other types of graduation that would provide a similar openness to various approaches.