“A Heart of Wood” on tour in Prague

The vernissage took place yesterday with a lecture by Oskar Norelius and Robert Schmitz, the Lead Architects and the Exhibition Architect Filip Sudolsky. Today, it opens to the public and the exhibition presents the development of the 20-storey cultural centre from competition through production to the final result.

A Heart of Wood is organised in collaboration with Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin and will take place under the auspices of the ambassador of Sweden to the Czech Republic. The exhibition at Jaroslav Fragner Gallery not only offers an insight into the innovative construction process, but also presents many forms of use of this giant timber building.

The main goal when designing Sara Cultural Centre was to point out the possibilities of using wood as a construction material for complex high-rise buildings in sustainable construction. The diverse program required a number of innovative design solutions to incorporate a variety of requirements, from flexibility through acoustics to overall statics. The architectural design allowed the load-bearing structure to be created without concrete, which significantly reduced the carbon footprint of this carbon negative building.

The exhibition runs at Galerie Jaroslav Fragner in Prague, Czechia, until 13 March.