Urban study of the location in the city center, which was created by the post-war demolition of most of the houses in the block. The proposed solution for the use of this area supports the life of the city center and heals scars from the war.

In order to find the right answer to this assignment, it is essential to answer the questions of what a lively city center actually is and by what means its liveliness can be achieved.

We consider a lively city to be full of people in houses, shops, in the public space of squares, streets, parks. A lively city is a place where the life of its inhabitants is present both day and night. The daily bustle followed by the quiet of the night, disturbed by the singing of regulars returning home here and there. It is not a lively city if you do not meet a living thing, nor if the city lives and pulsates during the day and then dies at night by emptiness and the absence of people.

In addition, a vibrant city center must have a strong enough centripetal force to attract people from its surroundings and, in the case of Opava, also from the region.

By what means can this be achieved, when the current experience of many cities is just the opposite, when shopping centers along their outskirts are causing the depopulation of the city centers and the quality of living in the center is not able to compete with the living in houses outside the city?
In our opinion, the solution must offer a reason to go to the city center, it must offer housing that is comparable to living in your own house and it must use the quality of the historic city center and the place itself. All of this needs to be put together as the answer to the conflicting wishes emerged from the surveys and interviews we have conducted.

We present a design that meets most of these wishes and combines them in the right way, so that a lively whole is created as a result.

On the one hand, we complete the block in its original outline with variation of different town houses. We then create a market in the courtyard and leave part of the existing park. The town houses facing the square and the market have a commercial parterre. The market can also serve as a city cultural hall, where it is possible to organize various types of cultural events.

The basic principle of this Jiráskovo náměstí square and the monastery garden reconstruction is a clear definition of individual spaces, clear arrangement and a good orientation in space and initiation of events. Unambiguous and uncomplicated transport solutions and an adequate use of water. We are widening sidewalks and narrowing the roads. We affirm the space in front of the monastery as a park square with the possibility of various forms of rest. We preserve its memory in the form of horse chestnuts. We change the bus turntable into a quiet park. We transformed the area in front of the school to a garden. We leave the monastery garden with its intimacy and secrecy.

The aim of this work is to design the reconstruction of the village squares of Bezdědice and Radouš. We design the overall concept as well as the small detail. We propose instructions on how to gradually work with municipal spaces.

Bezdědice is a village that is largely adjacent to the village square, there are only a few streets which aren’t connected to the square. A modern one, a plot with a playground and an old school. The village square is multi-layered and at first sight disorganized. Pond, church, many trees, stream, space behind the church.

We propose to make the village square clearer in the open part around the pond and the playground. We suggest adding one path along the south side of the village square and removing another. The new path will make the houses along it accessible, the removal of the other path will make it possible to connect two separate green islands into one with a larger playground and a free area, which is now actually missing on the square. We adjust the space in front of the church into the shape of an entrance to the church. You can sit here on benches and park comfortably.

Radouš is a village with a beautiful village square, small alleys, a hidden stream, a railway station and an unpleasant turn on a 1st class road. The proposal underlines and makes accessible the qualities that the municipality has and suppresses the negatives represented mainly by the 1st class road.

New-build bus terminal near the train station. It is a terminal with a two-way entry and an exit for buses. Five platforms in a row adjoin the railway station by the edge of the boarding platform.

The paved pre-station area is lined on the south by the station building, on the west by a wall with benches and a Bike+Ride area, on the northwest a park at Jana Švermy street leads to it, on the northeast is a restaurant with a corner bay window and on the east an allée. In this allée we keep the maximum of mature trees and supplement them with new plantings. The allée separates the terminal from the villas in Dvořákova street and provides shade for parked buses and cars.

It is important for us to perceive the main direction of walking when getting off the train or bus, i.e. Jana Švermy street with the adjacent park towards the cinema and further to the square, which co-creates the impression of the bus station. From the south-eastern corner, a pedestrian path from Harantova street leads to the area, complementing the third green axis, which opens into this area.

The design also includes covered waiting rooms, which in their form refer to the historical tubular urban furniture of the 1950s.

The area in question, 1. máje street and Pivovarská street, can be called the backbone of the town of Vimperk. It forms an essential axis in the east – west direction. It leads from the periphery gradually to the historic center. Several important streets open into the axis, which divide it into tracts and create small squares at the intersections.

The importance of this axis is confirmed by the location of educational, cultural, administrative, commercial and sports institutions. In the historic, more densely built-up part is a lively commercial parterre.

Currently, most public spaces are usurped by car transport. Staying and walking is unpleasant and sometimes even dangerous for pedestrians. Not only the large number of parking spaces, but especially their unsuitable organization causes a feeling of chaotic arrangement and intensifies the inconvenience of walking.

The design changes this situation, preferring pedestrians to motorists. It adjusts the widths of sidewalks, streets, intersections, and populates the streets with rows of trees, new public lighting and urban furniture.

The territorial study for the entire area was prepared in 2017. In 2020, the implementation of the 1st stage was started – 1. máje street.