Borders "no man's land"| supervisor prof. Dr. Ing. arch. Bořek Šípek
The project deals with the interaction of two different environments in one place. Traditional border crossing has its own cultural and social value, but the current building of the highway completely erases this value. The concept is solving the issue of suppression or enhancement of the boundary in its traditional importance in the current trend of environmental globalization.
- State boundaries have always served as a stopping point. It was also the only allowed place to overcome the territory. We lost this milestone by accession to the Schengen space and by the construction of the highway, which will cover all the signs of the border, we will lose many feelings and an opportunity for reflection or mere perception of a change of land. Whatever anyone wants that by deleting of borders are cleaned also other differences, it will never achieve it. Space "no man's land" is very interesting by its property of neutrality. It is the kind of place of a tint between two states. Dividing of states by visual way, the emergence of the milestone, the free space for the reflection, the place of impartiality, decision options and the space for the expression of our feelings. Seemed unaffected area on the ground where you can determine your own rules. Place for the free expression of their feelings and relationships of individual nations against each other. The territory that does not belong to anyone also belongs to everybody. Highway closed in noise barriers from a side of the Czech Republic and also Austria is suddenly at the green border naked and performs the above mentioned unlimited space of anyone. The highway environment is completely connected to its surroundings. This part of the road is long one hundred meters and is located exactly at the center of the borderline between the Czech and Austrian borders. The speed limit is reduced to sixty kilometers per hour. At this point is a highway free from noise barriers and any other barriers too and it is processed in the perspective as a 3D image on the road. This picture is fully interactive with its environment. It means that its design is loosely based on the surrounding countryside so that it acts as if during these one hundred meters of asphalt the pavement surface does not exist. As if anyone’s territory truly was not affected by anyone else except nature. It is a visual illusion. This creates an unexpected place, which create a lot of new situations. We can say that at this point of division is happening total connection. Interview related to the project and the competition The National avard for student design 2012 Exposition Nový (z)boží |