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Miroslav Strigac

Miroslav Strigac

Stuttgart, DE

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[Plant] Exhaust Tower@Tunnel Blanka

Plant offers an artistic alternative to the rough concrete exhaust tower for Pragues major urban and traffic project - Tunnel Blanka. The aim was to work with nature-like principles of growth to create a unique art-nature-architecture solution. Therefore an application for generating L-system patterns has been adapted and used to develop the towers fluted body, crown and pergola.


Periodicity and symmetry found in the zoomorphic pattern initiated the idea to create a single segment used as a repetitive/mirrored component to build up the main body of the tower . This simplicity of repeating body parts is beneficial in at least two ways, an easy assembly on-site and lowering of manufacture costs.


Construction consists of aluminium stripes and body sheets. The stripes form upper crown of Plant and the pergola structure in parterre. The body sheets are cast into a milled mould, with no surface finish.

 
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Status: Unbuilt
Location: Prague, CZ
Additional Credits: @E-Area /Federico Díaz/