The thermal insulation of residential  buildings is an issue that affects many people. The most visible is the actual appearance of “new” façades, which gradually change the character of compact neighbourhoods into uncontrollable colourful chaos. The intention of residents who try to “humanize” the impersonality of prefabricated houses in this way now come to the opposite extreme and hypertrophied polychrome settlements are significant…

City life may be improved not only physically, but also digitally. This intervention would aim at creating a web portal that would unite posts on interventions and good ideas in cities all over the world, ranging from small individual projects to large structural changes. In this manner, it could show a variety of possible ways of actively approaching the theme. Urbanism, in a larger sense, is…

The situation with the PKO building is well-known. There has been a lot of discussion about demolishing or keeping it. Our society perceives the entire situation negatively. This proposal does not answer the questions regarding the potential demolition of PKO, or whether it would be good or bad. It intends to be a suggestion for discussion on the possible future identity of PKO….

The concept shows an object absorbed into its natural surroundings creating a protruding shell in the form of a vertical garden. The landscape would be tailored to the needs of the audience seating by inserting wooden benches in decaying geometry so that the slope is the least visually impairing. The object would be accompanied by a barrier-less ramp. The concept contemplating the use…

A boundary of three town districts, a traffic junction, the crossroads of directions and opinions… A place lacking a distinct face, a homogenous urbanistic expression. There are unfinished ideas of architects and self-confident solutions lacking in consequentiality. This is Trnavske myto square.Our proposal preserves the original architectural space, yet opens it up for the general public. It intends to make the space more…

A strategy for the recovery of public spaces

The project suggests a five-step universal strategy necessary for the gradual revitalization of urban spaces in Bratislava that we see often empty and without temperament. It works with core public space and identifying existing barriers in it. The initial project was conceived in the area of the inner city – Ruzinov, which is in close connection…

The objective of the intervention is to create an open map of Bratislava including the different types of data the city collects, such as places of firefighters’ interventions, maps of car-tow areas in case of legal offences, maps of various types of road accident locations. Such open data and maps could be used by anybody to analyze and find out, for instance, the…

One of the important activities provided by the city is the coordination of construction. For these purposes, the city adopts a variety of applications and notifications, delivers its opinions, etc. It also addresses the so-called Zoning Plan.

The city can publish some data out of construction procedures:

– what plots are subject to zoning decision or construction procedures, of

– changes to the…

The sidewalks and streets of Bratislava are fascinating. Every time someone needs to access the gas or water lines, they dig up just a narrow strip in the ground and then fill it up again, pouring a layer of asphalt over it. After hundreds of similar repairs, we get unbelievable collages of countless surfaces and materials. Public areas are neglected, the sidewalks are…

We were inspired by our own experience of different trips. It often happens to each of us that when getting off the bus in a new town, usually, the first thing is that our cell phone goes out of service, GPS is off, then we have to rely on a map. In many cases it can be very confusing. Everything suggests that we…