Interstices: Prague 6, Czechia

This project builds upon the analysis of Vítězné Náměstí in Prague, and its adjacent interstice. The existing interstice, adjacent to the city’s business district, is associated as the grounds for informal events and activities.

The proposal seeks to fulfill the historic horseshoe plan by Antonin Engel, developing the site as a shared, public-private mixed use development. It seeks to retain the site’s existing informal identity, allowing for residence, work, commerce, transit, and informal events to co-exist.

Through strategic placement of sub-boulevards and further development of conventional tenement blocks within the Dejvice region, the proposal seeks to cultivate spatial affordances for activity and events between utilitarian private and public thresholds.

Adjacent terracing for varied modular housing types establishes new visual thresholds, blurring interfaces while retaining established grain. The unification of reinterpreted tenement circulation spaces instil semi-private shared spaces, connecting the site’s event space with internal residential courtyards.