Šárka: a Place of Serenity

The work process was divided into two phases: the first one, theoretical, based on my experience during my stay in Prague, supported by the readings of Genius Loci – Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, by Christian Norberg-Schulz, Landscape Narratives, by Matthew Potteiger and Jamie Purinton, and my personal choice of a chapter of the first letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. It consisted of a conceptual approach to the sense of serenity through the living of space. The second part of the work was the design of the intervention itself in Šárka, which was the course of transition between the city of Prague and the natural environment of the park, culminating on a small non-religious chapel, for visitors to enjoy and contemplate the surrounding landscape.