Revitalisation of Hus?v Park, Prague Landscape, Superpower Wall, Green Space Project, Czech Architecture Photos
Hus?v Park – Superpower Wall in Prague
22 Feb 2022
Design: S K U L L studio
Location: Cukrovarská, Ke Stadionu, 196 00 Prague 9 ? ?akovice

Photos by Bet Orten
Revitalisation of Hus?v Park, Superpower Wall
The site which is now home to the Hussite revolution park in ?akovice was historically the location of a village green with a lake. During the era of the First Czechoslovak Republic, the lake was drained and the area converted into a park. During the construction adjustments of that time, the houses that had lined the original lake were demolished. The remainders of the roof gables of these buildings were still visible until the recent reconstruction that took place in the years 2019-2020.
The author of the reconstruction of the park was the landscaping studio Land05, headed by Martina Forejtová. S K U L L studio was invited to take part in the design of the perimeter wall on the southern edge of the park. The outcome is this sculptural-architectural monument ? a brick relief, with a degree of hyperbole entitled Superpower Wall.

The theme of transformation is a fundamental idea of the realisation. After the conversion of the original village green, the contours of the gabled roofs remained inscribed in the perimeter walls of the park.

The motif of these diagonal lines, sketches of time, is the basis for the current form of the brick wall ? relief, ...