CSHQ Campus Prague Art Walk
Prague CZ . 2020 - 2024
With the development of the Smichov North and Smichov South areas, the client would like to assume the responsibility of giving the future users and residents of the city of Prague a lively and livable piece of the city. The built district should have a direct causal connection with the quality of life at this location.
Even before planning for Smichov North and South started, care was taken to ensure visitors, neighbours and employees would often cross each other’s paths and that several works of art would inspire dialogue among them. This dialogue is designed to make this place a vibrant and liveable place.
The project in Prague is the starting signal for the client to bundle his previous cultural activities and establish a Culture Foundation. It is committed to the promotion of culture and its arts with the useful purpose to empower society in its development. The new maxim of this foundation is the promotion of cultural life and artistic creation, the exchange between artists and society and the diversity of cultural forms of expression.
According to some interpretations, Dodola is a Slavic rain goddess, and wife of the chief god Perun (a god of thunder). The Slavs believed that it would rain when Dodola milked their heavenly cows (the clouds). Every spring, it is said, Dodola flies over forests and meadows to spread spring greens and to decorate the trees with flowers.
With its vertical extension, this work is widely visible. The construction can be seen shimmering silver from a distance and almost wants to reach the sky. It randomly rains down on the square and motivates people to stand in the rain - maybe to dance. Humans have always tried to control the weather and yet fear of this natural force remains.
Collaborators
Pavel Hnilička Architekti
Baumschlager Eberle Architekten
Location
50°03'59.3"N 14°24'18.1"E
Collaborators
Pavel Hnilička Architekti
Baumschlager Eberle Architekten
Location
50°03'59.3"N 14°24'18.1"E