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The first time Jaroslav Fragner Gallery presented Sn\u00f8hetta architectural projects was in 2009, with the exhibition of Czech architect Martin Roub\u00edk (1949\u20132008), one of the co-founders of this renowned studio. In the same year, Sn\u00f8hetta received Mies van der Rohe Award for the Oslo Opera project. I firmly believe that this Opera was the second most important project (after the Alexandria Library) that defined the basic principles of architectural design typical for Sn\u00f8hetta, enabling the interdisciplinary discussion on the role of architecture in the current world. The Opera House was primarily perceived as a sculpture, an icon of the new transformation of the former docklands. It became a symbol of conversion of this industrial location, which transformed over a decade into a lab of architecture and urbanism. However, there\u2019s another dimension to the Opera: its topography and morphology marked the start of the transformation of this brownfield into a fully-fledged public space. A cultural sanctuary as a gospel of the shared space transformation. (It should also be noted that the Sn\u00f8hetta main office is also located in one of the former halls.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 2009, Sn\u00f8hetta projects have become part of several of our exhibitions, especially those that attempt at provoking the discussion on environmental, green or sustainable architecture \u2013 Green Architecture.CZ, The Aesthetics of the Sustainable Architecture, or guides to the sustainable architecture in Prague or Czech or Slovak mountains. Kind and continuous support by the <\/a>EEA and Norway Grants enabled us to focus on projects mapping striking architectural or artistic projects interacting with the Norwegian landscape \u2013 Artscape Norway, Artscape Iceland and Sustainable Architecture Beyond the Polar Circle. We also forged unique contacts with many Norwegian architects, studios and institutions: National Museum \/ Museum of Architecture, the ROM Gallery, the ARFO Publishing House specialized in architecture, Norwegian Scenic Routes (a unique enterprise connecting traffic, sustainable tourism and environmental conservation) and the progressive Artscape Nordland project. These projects are now an important part of our activities, enabling us to present the topics of sustainability to the Czech people from the perspective of the country that inspires the whole world how to use architecture as a tool to maintain the quality of life on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is also the main motto of the exhibition provided to us by one of the leading architecture-exhibiting platforms, the Berlin-based Galerie Aedes and Aedes Architecture Forum. Let me hereby express many thanks to its representatives Kristin Feireiss and Hans\u2013J\u00fcrgen Commerell, whom we met in the past years at the Czech installations of Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environmnent. Let me also thank the <\/a>EEA and Norway Grants for the financial support; more big thanks go to Zumtobel Lighting, the creators of a impressive program for the Prague event, aimed at the dialogue with the next generation of architects. Sn\u00f8hetta cooperates with Zumtobel in Tirol and Vorarlberg, i.e. in the areas where Zumtobel was founded, and where the contemporary are plays a major role in the broad discussion on the transformation of the society in the times of climatic changes, and on the possible ways of good sustainable tourism. The local situation in Austria shows us the possibilities of the global dialogue based both on the transformation of local centers and on the transdisciplinary research, not only in the field of aesthetics but also in the overall development and the cooperation with the academic institutions in the research of difficult locations, requiring specific protective measures and procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We added several new projects and realizations to the original concept of the exhibition, as we see them important for the presentation in the Czech environment. They primarily include the typology of \u201cactive houses\u201d (or \u201cpowerhouses\u201d, if you please); buildings that produce more energy than they need for their operations. Sn\u00f8hetta is ahead of the competition in this segment as well, which has been also demonstrated by the words of Kjetil Traedal Thorsen, Sn\u00f8hetta\u2019s founding partner:<\/p>\n\n\n\n „Architecture, as we see it, probably has the purpose of creating better environments for human and non-human existence on Earth,“ said Sn\u00f8hetta founding partner Kjetil Tr\u00e6dal Thorsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n „There is no question that we, as a profession, have to deal with the problems, not challenges, real problems that we have at hand, at any time through our professional network and cross-collaboration,“ he told Dezeen<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sn\u00f8hetta’s other Powerhouse buildings completed over the last decade are Powerhouse Kj\u00f8rbo and Powerhouse Montessori.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The completion of Powerhouse Telemark follows Thorsen’s warning to architects that they must plan for „armageddon situations“ and the studio’s pledge to only design carbon-negative buildings, meaning their projects will generate more energy than they consume over their lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n „For the next 10 years Sn\u00f8hetta will focus on turning our project portfolio carbon neutral in terms of all projects in the design stage,“ the firm told Dezeen. „Within the next 20 years [we will] ensure that our built projects are carbon neutral.“<\/p>\n\n\n\n We believe that visitors and readers will be inspired by the ARCTIC NORDIC ALPINE<\/em> project. The unity of the progressive design, architecture, urbanism and the environmentally sound approach, that\u2019s the challenge we can already face. The answers will be given during the lectures, or you can find them in this book or at the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dan Merta, Prague, 2021 Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Exhibition: 27\/8\u201313\/10\/2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Opening: 26\/8<\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction speech: Jenny B. Osuldsen\/ Sn\u00f8hetta Oslo<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lecture 28\/8 (CTU Prague, EAAA 2021): Jenny B. Osuldsen\/ Sn\u00f8hetta Oslo<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lecture 16\/9 (GJF): Patrick L\u00fcth\/ Sn\u00f8hetta Innsbruck<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lecture 10\/21 (TU Liberec): Jette C. Hopp\/ Sn\u00f8hetta Oslo Jenny B. Osuldsen\/ Sn\u00f8hetta Oslo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jenny B. Osuldsen is an landscape architect and Partner in Sn\u00f8hetta. She joined Sn\u00f8hetta in 1995, was the managing director for the start-up of their New York office in 2006 and she works globally with all the 7 Sn\u00f8hetta offices. Since 2014 she has been a professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Life Sciences at \u00c5s, Norway and a guest professor at SUDes Master\u2019s Program in Sustainable Urban Design at the Lund University in Sweden. In 2017 she was appointed to be an Honorary Doctor at LTU Lule\u00e5 technical university, Sweden. Patrick L\u00fcth\/ Sn\u00f8hetta Innsbruck<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Patrick L\u00fcth has been managing the Sn\u00f8hetta Studio in Innsbruck since 2011. In 2005, after studying architecture in Innsbruck, he started as an intern in the Oslo office. There he participated in numerous international architectural competitions and some of Sn\u00f8hetta’s most famous design submissions. He expanded the Innsbruck studio into an office with around 30 employees. He is responsible, among other things, for the Swarovski projects „Crystal Worlds Evolution“ and Manufaktur, an innovative building for production and creative collaboration, for the design study for a new museum quarter in Bolzano, the master plan for a new city quarter in Budapest, the conversion of the site of an old tobacco factory in Verona, and for hotel and tourism projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She has been working with Sn\u00f8hetta since 2005. She is director and part of the management group, with responsibility for acquisition and new projects. She regularly lectures at architectural symposia and univercities. Examples of her experience are her role as team leader for the museum in the King Abdul Aziz Center for Knowledge and Culture, Dharhan in Saudi Arabia, Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Oslo; she has led major international developments with the focus on sustainability: Astana Expo 2017 “ Future Energy “ in Kazakhstan; Lingkong Soho Shanghai, Elbtower in Hamburg, in Norway innovative environmental projects as Powerhouse One in Trondheim and Powerhouse Kj\u00f8rbo concept phase in Sandvika which is the world first rehabilitated energy-positive building in the world.
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