CLOUD Gallery of Modern Art

CTU in Prague - Faculty of Civil Engineering

Project idea

The task was a simplified architectural study of the above-mentioned building on the land between the Na Františku hospital and St. Agnes Monastery near Dvořák embankment in Prague. The land was a subject of several competitions and therefore all documents were available for it, including panoramas of the surroundings.


The land is gaining its importance with the project of the Vltava Philharmonic Hall a few hundred meters to the northwest, and the building should be a worthy partner of this future landmark of Prague from the BIG studio.


The multi-purpose should be filled with other functions beyond the scope of simple exhibition and audience operations (cash desks, entrance lobby, cloakroom, sanitary facilities, etc.) Administrative, gastronomic, conference or lecture operations + interest studios, possibly. experimental exhibition spaces with virtual reality or holographic artifacts should be taken into account. Of course, there are appropriate restoration and storage areas + areas for building services – sanitary installations and underground garages with access with a hydraulic anti-flood seal. The descent to the garages is possible by an existing ramp, which could be approached from the newly installed traffic lights on the embankment. Part of the design is the design of the gallery's vestibule and the connection with the courtyard of St. Agnes Monastery.


The object itself should be adequate in its appearance, materials and constructions to the exhibited contemporary art of painting, sculpture and digital incl. of artifacts created by AI that is about not accepting conventional rules, about fighting against boredom and grayness, and that never gives up.

Project description

The art gallery Na Františku is an organic building contrasting the historical heart of the city of Prague. Seen from the hill of Letná, the mass carries itself in the spirit of a famous czech composer Antonín Dvořák and his work Rusalka and the moon. The gallery, the sculpture, lifts off the ground and is airy, light and sensitive. But at the same time it cuts through the panorama with its “elegant fork”.


Together with its surface ferrari textil, the gallery reminds of a cloud, which is levitating on technician glass “legs” with an opening into two glass domes. These contain an outlook small restaurant with its own entrance and two-storey studio for renting.


The facility offers three large exhibition halls - one in the underground and two above the ground - with the option of a variable segmentation. The main vertical communication passes through the “legs” , through which the supply elevator leads to the upper floors. The enrtance floor is sunked into the 1st basement floor which visually releases the pre-gallery space designed for recreation with water surfaces and fountains. The ground floor also connects the garden of the Convent of Saint Agnes in the east, in which sculpturen are often exhibited. The art gallery of modern art helps to blend the art of both important epoches of the architecture together.

Technical information

The gallery is covered with a surface material that is made with a ferrari textile attached to steel construction, which is then supported by a concrete load-bearing horizontal structure. The triple glass is immersed in „pockets“ attached to the horizontal concrete structures which makes the design without any negative thermal bridges. For the administration, the textile looses a bit of its textile opaque to ensure the requirements of the daylight.

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