THE MIRROR OF ENIGMAS

"The sin the two of us now share," mused the king. "The sin of having known Beauty, which is a gift forbidden mankind. Now we must atone for it. I gave you a mirror and a golden mask; here is the third gift, which shall be the last."He laid in the poet's right hand a dagger. Of the poet, we know that he killed himself when he left the palace; of the king, that he is a beggar who wanders the roads of Ireland, which once was his kingdom, and that he has never spoken the Poem again. (Jorge Luis Borges / The Mirror And The Mask)  I am an art&architecture lover, seeker of the ultimate truth and beauty.  My name is Alzbeta Widholmova. My recent architecture work is here: https://issuu.com/albetawidholmova All the drawings, photographs, models, videos and posts generally are my own work and I do not wish for it to be used in any way without my permission.

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sneak peak of a small interior project I did with a friend in 2018!

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Park and ride! This is an older work that I did form my options studies project, back at CTU Prague. It is a video for a studio project for parkhaus (here is more: https://themirrorofenigmas.tumblr.com/post/145420948871/finished-a-school-project-parking-house-as-a ) I just found out that CTU uploaded it on youtube so I thought of sharing it!

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In search for a perfect place for a new tower in Prague, one must first choose an appropriate approach. Maybe blindly walking around, taking Camilo Sitte’s side and relying on intuitive composition of elements.  In opposition, one could take a historic approach and composing new towers in old structures - for example in the path of former fortification. Both methods fail either on being too subjective or simply impossible for already changed city. I decided to search for a place with already existing towers, a place that doesn’t need a new justification. A new tower in such place would only confirm an importance and monumentality of an already important and monumental place. Tower that can be shamelessly visible. I decided to build a new tower in Prague’s castle.

At first I was analysing the skyline and chose several places where new towers would be possible, some of them prolonging the former towers. I made models and drawings. Wanting to bring a new function to an almost sacred and conserved as well as touristic spot, I thought about what is appropriate as a function, for a tower. It was merely impossible not to be ironic. I wish it ended up with social housing.

The end product is not a single design, as I found the thought process for the project more important.

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I’ve decided that I’m going to start uploading my architecture projects more thoroughly, therefore I am starting with my first diploma project, that I did In 2017 at Czech technical university in Prague. I can only upload 10 images, so for futher invastigation, go here https://issuu.com/albetawidholmova/docs/portfolio_xs  or here https://www.atelierkuzemensky.cz/alzbeta-widholmova-porodni-dum-letn

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Returning fom Koyasan.

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A postcard from Kobe.

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Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Koyasan Japan in early July, 2019

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June 2019 - Diploma exhibition of my year in Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Bittersweet. 

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Paris in May.

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moments from St Peter's

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HADRIAN'S VILLA

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This is a competition I did for an instalation system for exhibitions of Prague Philharmonia in January 2018. Although they chose antoher design, I was quite happy with mine therefore I share.  translation of the text: Presenting projects with exhibition panels is almost never a good idea. This commits an unnecessary spatial violence on units of two dimensions. Such violence can be prevented. For example, panels can be grouped together to create slightly embarrassing spatial formations or be hanged on the wall, therefore save one from inventing over and over different spatial compositions. This is, I think, quite inappropriate for Rudolphinum. The display system I attempted to design is not placed on the frames into which the panels can be hung or fastened and then be forced to form a spatial composition. My ambition also was not to create again and again the pressure on the creativity of the people who would fold and divide it, but rather vice versa. The exhibition system, which I propose, is the same as the Rudolfinum. Universality may not hide in unlimited possibilities, but in their limitations. I suggest an evocation cabinet showcase system. These individual cabinets will in themselves be a space object in which exhibits, exhibits, panels and information will be exhibited as exhibits. The intention of such an exhibition system is not to remain invisible. A cabinet tries to give the reader the feeling that he reads information from the shelf of a nice piece of furniture or a musical instrument. Cabinets can be fitted with castors to move easily. They should be made of wood combined with metal.

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Hommage to school of architecture - Garden of AVU (2018)

This school project tries to pay an honour to the building of the school of architecture by carefuly exploring its surroundigs. By creating small corrections to public spaces such as moving the garden wall, dividing pedestrian and car entry, reorganising parking, ading trees and removing cars by building a small parkhaus, I attept to expose  the building of the school of architecture and let it be noticed. By altering the school grounds I created a piazzeta  with a large tree between two school buildings, and a school garden that is no longer tarnished with cars passing by. I played with the idea of leting each studio have its piece for themselves and added stairs that would allow the access. 

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Trani,

december 2017

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Villa Winternitz (1931-1933)

Adolf Loos, Na Cihlářce 10, Smíchov, Praha

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Vila Pick (1930)

Ernst Wiesner, U Mrázovky 7, Smíchov, Praha

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Kostel sv. Vojtěcha, Praha Libeň - Emil Králíček 1904-1905