Children’s cabin

Holiday cabin made from a recycled rack system
CZ, Prague — 2019
exhibition
investor, client
PechaKuchaNight Prague
architect
Boris Redčenkov, Prokop Tomášek, Jaroslav Wertig
team, collaboration
Matěj Pažítka 13 let, Oskar Pytloun 9 let, Jindřich Panský, Jolana Moravcová
technical design, collaboration
Jaroslav Wertig
main contractor
LN - Design, s.r.o.
photographer
Tomáš Rasl, Jolana Moravcová

Organisers of the PechKucha Night Prague asked us to prepare a one-day workshop for school children focused on architecture. We got the idea to build a holiday cabin with two enrolled children (aged 9 and 13) using a recycled rack system we had as a leftover from the currently dismantled exhibition. We used the system’s modulation and built a combination of two beds, one desk and shelves for storing things. We combined the shelves into a rigid spatial unit we clad in foiled water-resistant plywood and  Lexan sheets. Due to the rack system’s simple mechanical locks, we were able to erect the cabin with children like a set of toy blocks. The complete holiday cabin was built in seven hours. Children were surprised and proud. The point is that, at the beginning of the workshop, they did not expect to build a genuinely habitable structure to a real scale. We do hope this experience sparked passion for architecture in them.

Children’s cabin

Holiday cabin made from a recycled rack system
CZ, Prague — 2019
exhibition
investor, client
PechaKuchaNight Prague
architect
Boris Redčenkov, Prokop Tomášek, Jaroslav Wertig
team, collaboration
Matěj Pažítka 13 let, Oskar Pytloun 9 let, Jindřich Panský, Jolana Moravcová
technical design, collaboration
Jaroslav Wertig
main contractor
LN - Design, s.r.o.
photographer
Tomáš Rasl, Jolana Moravcová

Organisers of the PechKucha Night Prague asked us to prepare a one-day workshop for school children focused on architecture. We got the idea to build a holiday cabin with two enrolled children (aged 9 and 13) using a recycled rack system we had as a leftover from the currently dismantled exhibition. We used the system’s modulation and built a combination of two beds, one desk and shelves for storing things. We combined the shelves into a rigid spatial unit we clad in foiled water-resistant plywood and  Lexan sheets. Due to the rack system’s simple mechanical locks, we were able to erect the cabin with children like a set of toy blocks. The complete holiday cabin was built in seven hours. Children were surprised and proud. The point is that, at the beginning of the workshop, they did not expect to build a genuinely habitable structure to a real scale. We do hope this experience sparked passion for architecture in them.