Publication date: 
2023/06/14
We would like to invite you to the presentation of footbridges to Krkonoše Mountains, designed and built by architecture students. The opening will take place on Tuesday, 20 June at 13.00 in the courtyard of Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University, Thákurova 9, Prague 6 - Dejvice. The six new footbridges are the result of cooperation between the Institute of Design II of CTU Faculty of Architecture and Krkonoše National Park Administration.

Student footbridges first appeared in the highest Czech mountains in 2019. At that time, the Krkonoše Mountains administrators selected locations where the wooden structures of the old footbridges were outdated. Thanks to the students' inventiveness, the installation of five unconventional constructions stood out from the usual replacement of outdated wooden elements. The set of footbridges and shelters, which were realised a year later, won the Public Investor's Achievement award at the Krkonoše Architecture Awards in 2022.

A total of 47 learners are participating in the design-build project, in which ideas are brought to fruition with their own hands. The inventiveness of the final solutions is suggested by the names the students have given their footbridges: 210 bpm, Hranolky, Kokrháč, Fošínka, Nelávka or Klínovvka.

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Contact person: 
Name: 
Ing. arch. Kateřina Rottová Ph.D.
E-mail: 
rottovakat@fa.cvut.cz