Mjölk architects have built a minimalist house in Budějovice

České Budějovice - A new attraction in the České Budějovice square has become a minimalist house that will be inhabited by interesting personalities. The wooden cube, with a floor area of over six square meters, is supported by four three-meter beams and has been set up here for one month by Mjölk architects. The autorská výstava will last exactly that long in the nearby House of Art - Week In Self.
     According to the curator of the exhibition, Michal Škoda, Mjölk architects first significantly drew attention to themselves in 2010 when they built a sauna as a gift to the city on an unused concrete platform in the middle of the Liberec reservoir, though it was later removed by order of the Elbe basin. A significant step was also their victory last year in the prestigious international competition The Warming Huts in Winnipeg, Canada. Competing against 40 designs from around the world, they received the highest award and, along with three other selected architects, realized their design Polar Hen, serving as a shelter for tired athletes.
     Interested individuals will be able to view the awarded projects, along with others, in the gallery, where the architects will move their office from Liberec for one month. “It is a kind of disruption of the classical institutional environment. On one hand, their projects will be presented audiovisuálně, on the other hand, clients will come to them, but at the same time, visitors will go there,” Škoda told ČTK. A functional platform will thus be created in the modern art gallery, where visitors can talk to architects about public space in Budějovice, starting from transportation, through unused spaces, to buildings, he explained.
     In the fully functional module in the corner of the square in front of the town hall at Přemysl Otakar II square, someone will be living throughout the exhibition - an architect, journalist, historian, or curator, as well as people who won a competition on social media for the best use of time in the module.
     The house aims to offer people a new experience of inhabiting minimal space, a new experience within the city. It acts as a mediator of new experiences and sensations for both its residents and people passing by. “The object breaks the virginity of centuries of preserved space in the middle of the square and directs the thoughts of its inhabitants. It is a hermitage in the forest of people, a cabin on the stone-paved square,” the authors wrote about the project.