Project
Josefinum - adaptation of the Jesuit Seminary
JOSEFINUM – ADAPTATION OF THE JESUITIC SEMINARY, KLATOVY / 2023
Collaboration with Michaela Zucconi, Veronika Škardová, Jiří Trčka, Markéta Jurečková, Norbert Schmidt and Jiří Vlach
Today a corner, tomorrow a beautiful corner
The southwestern part of the historical center of Klatov is stuck in its furthest outcrop near the walls in a dead end. The exact rules of rectangular Jesuit building, which were also in accordance with the medieval principles of regular city organization, have stopped working here. The development at this location began to rebel against the rules, fragmenting and creating quite disparate architectural and spatial fragments. Clashes with the medieval walls, property chaos and dramatic terrain configuration drove the builders of the Jesuit seminary into anomalous architectural shapes and compositions. This is how a beautifully disordered corner was created. Its charm is captivating today, its unpretentious poetry is recognizable and distinct. With current new interventions, it can be made clear, accessible, continuously passable, occupied in various (poly)functional ways and used socially. History that was covered by a layer of sediment can be revealed here.
A corner can become a strong, unmistakable place. Even a crossroads of concrete movements and abstract energies with a specific genius. All its shape and mental discrepancies offer themselves for use as basic building blocks for the development of an original romantic part of the city, which will no longer be an appendix. It will cease to be a corner and become an attractive, life-beating nook. Moreover, with newly provided wide views of the region.
