On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of architect Jan Kotěra, an exhibition entitled "Czech Architecture from Art Nouveau to the Present" was created in the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The organizers of the exhibition, architect Petr Ivanov and curator of architecture and historian Vladimír Šlapeta, structured the exhibition into five units, the last of which represented Czech architecture after the Velvet Revolution. The curators sought to gather and present architecture on models.
The visitor walks through the darkened Riding Hall divided by dark walls, which create irregular corridors, which respond well to the various scales of the models, which are suitable for spot intense lighting.
As we have become accustomed to, the work of Guild of architecture Martin Rajniš deviates from what is expected. It was no different at this exhibition. The guild designed and realized 2 parts of the exhibition named Apiary and Towers.
The first part was a tall black cube with mirrors with four hanging models of lookout towers hanging over the heads of visitors.
The decision to hang wooden models of already built towers at a scale of 1: 8, in the space above the commonly presented architecture, presented the unclassifiable nature of this work, the approach to architecture and material.
The second part of the Guild of architectur Martin Rajniš to the exhibition was the Včelín building centrally located at the entrance to the exhibition. The "model" presented an approach to construction, wood, structure literally haptically 1: 1. Thanks to the concurrence of the dates of the implementation of the Apiary and the exhibition, we had the opportunity to effectively present the real architecture directly in the exhibition. In addition, the apiary was created as a small equivalent of the Esther Tower, which the office built in 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel. It could therefore be understood as a "model" of the Jerusalem Esther.
The specific atmosphere of light and darkness in the exhibition made the wooden models really stand out.

wooden models of already realized towers in 1: 8 scale
only wood used
iron cables hanger

Apiary in 1: 1 scale
wood
iron construction elements