kopec/portfolio 2012-2007

JAKUB KOPEC/PORTFOLIO/2012-2007

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CONTENT: EXHIBITION OF CHALUPECKÝ AWARD FINALISTS 4 MODUL 6 TRIANGULAR HIGH SEAT 10 EXPOSITION OF ONE PROJECT 12 DEBNA/BEDNA 16 MEDIA KIOSK 18 COTTAGE CONVERSION 22 HOUSE FOR ELDERLY 24 (SUB)URBAN HIGH SEATS 26 PARKING FIELDS 28 BRNO ARCHITECTURE MANUAL 30 PUBLIC ROOM 32 WALL 34 ASKING ARCHITECTURE-COMPACT CITY 36 COMPACT CITY 38 DEUTSCHE IN DEN BÖHMISCHEN LÄNDERN 42 ART AND LIBERATION 44 MOVING 46 MEETING POINT 48 CUCKOO 52 BLAST OFF CITY 56 ČERNÁ LOUKA 60 ZNOJMO CUCUMBER 62 SPORTFIELDS 66 GRILL 68

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EXHIBITION OF JINDŘICH CHALUPECKÝ AWARD FINALISTS /exhibition installation/graphic design Pixl-e /House of the Kunstat Lords, Brno/2012

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MODUL/installation/graphic design Pixl-e/public space, Praha-Bratislava-Ostrava-Hradec Králové-Brno/2012 An info kiosk designed for Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2012 is a variable object for announcing finalists of this prize for young artists. Turnable modul changed for five times its position according to introducing of five candidates in five Czech and Slovak cities.

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TRIANGULAR HIGH SEAT/installation/co-author Jaroslav SedlĂĄk/in cooperation with PosedlĂ­/public space, Brno/2012 Building a high seat in the city is an attempt to boost unused green spaces by locating the installation based on a hunters tower typical for czech landscape.

Structure built upon the triangle plan minimalize necessary volume of wood and corresponds to the same shape of the park.

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EXPOSITION OF ONE PROJECT /exhibition curating, installation/public space, Brno/2012 The seasonal outdoor exposition presented a selection of realised designs within the central european area focused on a younger generation of architects.

Each two weeks a new architectural project was exhibited in a temporary object in the public space in Brno. The aim of this exhibition was to reach an immediate contact of the general public with contemporary architecture and to boost an urban space.

The exhibition installation was used as well as an urban furniture for sitting or a bike stand. The presentation of each project embraced its genesis from original idea to realisation. Projects were exhibited by backlit panel and working models.

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DEBNA/BEDNA/competition entry/Bratislava/2012 This urban furniture is derived from a podium as a paraphrase of the lookout bench task. Debna/bedna represent an multifunctional object. Its turnings generate different furniture - a bench, a counter, a climbing structure, little auditorium and other...

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MEDIA KIOSK/exhibition installation/curators Barbora Šedivá, Katarína Gatialová/House of Arts, Brno/2012 Variable platform created an entrance to the REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments exhibition.

Low-cost installation was create from a wall, remained from a previous exhibitions, and practicables covered with an adhesive foil. White structure serves as info point, stage, chill out, venue for concerts, workshops or conferences.

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CONVERSION OF A COTTAGE TO A RESIDENTIAL HOUSE /commission/Frýdlant nad Ostravicí/2012 An extension of former cottage to the terrain slope and changing of the existing roof pitch minimalize the volume of a newly designed residential house.

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HOUSE FOR ELDERLY/competition entry /in cooperation with Ondřej Fabián, Petr Jakšík and Szymon Rozwałka/Opava/2012 The complex of autonomous residential units is based on the assumption of self-sufficiency of their inhabitants. The house defines a public street and a privite courtyard. Housing units lifting up the terrain level rotate to lookouts, its loggias shield against neighboring multi-storey houses. The staircase volume contrasts with the horizontal shaped common room.

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(SUB)URBAN HIGH SEATS/competition entry /Psáry-Dolní Jirčany/2012 This proposal for CULBURB competition follows the potentiality of hilly terain and the closeness of the first continuous forest on the way out of Prague in the south direction.

The border position of forest inspirated an acupunctural form of the intervention which is derived from the typology of hunting high seats. These objects, creates new identifiable points in the village and its immediate surrounding. High seats, called pulpits in hunting slang, which are raised on natural elevations or just placed higher than new low-floor houses, offer new views on village and landscape. Their location in urban parts on the hillock of the historical center of Dolní Jirčany, above the suburban housing estate or on the slopes above the Štědřík would offer new pilgrimage stops with the possibilities of relaxation and observation the urban development of the village.

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PARKING FIELDS/urban research/public space, Brno/2011 Photo serie was shot in urban spaces during everyday and in time of street cleaning. It shows how much space is colonized by car traffic.

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BRNO ARCHITECTURE MANUAL/concept of architecture trails/in cooperation with Petra Hlaváčková, Rostislav Koryčánek, Šárka Svobodová and Lucie Valdhansová/ Brno/2011 The Brno Architecture Manual (BAM) is available as a freely accessible database, trail markings, printed maps and guides providing those interested in architecture with detailed information about Brno development dating from 1918-1945. An internet database of 400 architectural structures is available for professionals and the general public at www.bam.brno.cz and contains informational texts, maps, photo documentation and audio recordings to download. Therefore, anyone can take the nine suggested tours or create an architecture trail of their own. The information is also provided in the form of markings on the pavements outside the buildings providing codes of the buildings and internet pages.

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PUBLIC ROOM/installation/in cooperation with Dagmar Sitařová and 4AM/curator Jaroslav Sedlák /public space, Brno/2011 A piece of former wall settled large pink pillow to load the construction and serve as public room with a view to the sky.

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WALL/installation /co-authors Szymon Rozwałka and Petr Jakšík /public space, Brno/2011 Within a theater festival was erected a wall which served as a billboard and an entrance to teather tents or just divided known public space to unusual situations.

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ASKING ARCHITECTURE-COMPACT CITY/in cooperation with Ján Pernecký and 4AM/exhibition/Venice/2012 The Compact City exhibition was virtually reinstalled as a part of project asking architecture in Czech and Slovak pavilion at 13th International Architecture Bienale in Venice. The Conception was similar to Brno curatorial installation, by contrast its realization used the virtual space of augmented reality chosen by curators of pavilion.

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COMPACT CITY/exhibition curating, installation /co-curators Petra Hlaváčková and Szymon Rozwałka/ graphic design The Rodina/4AM, Brno/2011 The exhibition was given the form of a continuous workshop - five exhibitors from five Central European countries introduced topical installations for the duration of the event. Every participant had at their disposal the entire exhibition hall for the period of one week, concluded by a presentation and opportunity for discussion with another lecturer. Each and every installation was based on the exhibition hall being shared with other exhibitors and the additive nature and concept of exhibitions. In its own way the exhibition represented an unfinished experiment similar to the one of a city itself.

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DEUTSCHE IN DEN BÖHMISCHEN LÄNDERN/competition entry/in cooperation with Vít Musil/Ústí nad Labem/2011 A new interpretation of the issue needs the same reinterpretation of the exhibition space. The installation is set up to an independent grid based on the direction of fourth no-exhibition wing of the building.

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ART AND LIBERATION/exhibition installation /in cooperation with f.e.a. and 4AM/curator Jan Tabor /Vlněna, Brno/2011 Discovered materials from documentation department of former textile factory were installed in a strictly grid places on the floor of the vacant industrial hall as a part of exhibion ART AND LIBERATION /EUROPE 1943-1967.

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MOVING/happening/in cooperation with 4AM/BrnoVenice/2012 After announcement the laying off of 4AM from Gallery of Architecture we realizated an imaginary moving to the location of that time ongoing 4AM project at 13th International Architecture Bienale in Venice. The scene of our contribution to common ground topic of bienale created the common table removed from the meeting point in Brno.

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MEETING POINT/interior design/graphic design The Rodina/4AM, Brno/2011 The design adapted a void entrance space of the architecture gallery for needs of its new operator.

The existing foyer with a counter for an usherette was changed to a public library, meeting point and venue of workshops. In the middle of the room there was placed a large common table surrounded with bookshelves integrating existing doors to warehouse and toilets.

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CUCKOO/installation /in cooperation with 4AM/public space, Brno/2011 Its hard to recognize, what time is it on newly opened clockwork sculpture in the city center. This sound installation provided a possibility to make own time by passerbyes. A mobile phone with a cuckoo clock ringtone was connected to hi-fi system and located inside, outside was announced a cell number for calling it.

Project was presented as site-specific video installation within Brno City Interventions exhibition in former prison.

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BLAST OFF CITY/installations /co-authors Jiří Vítek, Jaroslav Sedlák/in cooperation with OFFCITY/public space, Pardubice/2010 Installation LIVING ROOM was inspired by poetics of square as an exterior living room. Discarded televisions, former transmitters of culture, became new urban furniture - living room wall and place for sitting.

Element known from private households is removed to public space as a tool for its settlement.

Installation TELEVISION TOWER as a deposit of discarded televisions symbolically referred to contemporary media tower of Babel.

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ČERNÁ LOUKA/competition entry/co-authors Jiří Vítek, Jaroslav Sedlák/Ostrava/2010 The area of Černá louka is perceived within its fragment-related urban structure of Moravian Ostrava.

The proposal complements the existing fragments of the city structure in connection to the main square and to the anticipated development. The main objective pursued is not to create and independent area but to integrate it into the urban network of the city. The city attains up to its natural borders represented by the river and the railway. The phasing of the project is to indicate natural growth of a city - contrary to the stages of a urban development project. Its first phase is represented by the building schedule predetermined by the competition rules.

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ZNOJMO CUCUMBER/competition entry /co-authors Ondřej Bartůšek, Jiří Vítek, Jaroslav Sedlák /Znojmo/2009 The winning design defines the fragmented square by insertion of a new polyfunctional block, which creates the maximal built-up boundary and divides a frequent road into two one-way streets. Around this block is situated the underground parking corridor.

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SPORTFIELDS/urban design/Brno/2010 The unused stadium is set as urban free zone limited only its boundaries. Up-to-date the spontaneous urban fabric of coloseum in Nimes and workers colonies in Brno.

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GRILL/happening/co-author Josef Omelka /public space, Brno/2007

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DUGOUT/first realization/in cooperation with Adam Grycmon, Jan Galík, Aleš Miko, David Moravec, Marek Planka/public space, Dolní Lhota/1996

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