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The Folk Architecture Monument

The Folk Architecture Monument, consisting of 3 original loghouse sheds moved onto the roof of a 13-floor tower block at a council estate in Košice, east Slovakia. The idea to create a monument dedicated to a certain societal, political and cultural change goes back to 2006, the idea to place it in Košice first appeared in 2008 when the city received the European Capital of Culture title. The main part of this artistic project consists of an intervention into a council estate – moving three loghouse sheds and their permanent placement on the roof of a tower block at a Košice council estate. The traditional loghouse village
architecture will create a monument in an environment which can be viewed as its exact antithesis. Almost half of the Slovak population lives in these concrete block housing.
The placement of the original loghouses from Liptovská Teplička and Párnica in Orava on the roof of their concrete block was approved by votes of the occupants of this house in the Dargovských hrdinov estate, locally dubbed the „Furča“ estate. Their approval was an indispensable part of the whole art project and thanks to them, the house on the Lidické Square 1, will become an unusual plinth, seen even from distant locations of the city.

artistsTomáš Džadoň
placeKošice
tags
castTomáš Džadoň
cameraErik Sikora
soundErik Sikora
editingErik Sikora
interviewErik Sikora
translationMichaela Wickleinová
categoryReports
published2. 12. 2013
languageČesky / English
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The Folk Architecture Monument
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MSA is a Brussels based office involved in many kinds of projects, from the design of public space to the elaboration of masterplan for larger territories. In May 2017, MSA has received the MIES AWARD 2017 in the category „emerging architect" for the realization of a small social apartments building localized on a plot to seemed impossible to be built.
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