Students of FA BUT won awards at the prestigious Collegium Artisticum exhibition

The international project RED Kiosk Transformer, in which students from the Faculty of Architecture at Brno University of Technology participated, received the Special Award for Student Work at the Collegium Artisticum 2025 exhibition – the most prestigious showcase of architecture, urbanism, and design in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

International project RED Kiosk Transformer. | Author: IC Prostor

This spatial pop-up installation was created in October 2024 during an international student workshop in the city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The workshop focused on the analysis, use, and redesign of the iconic Yugoslav kiosk K67 , designed by architect Saša Mächtig in 1966. The resulting installation experimentally demonstrates the features of the original design – modularity, flexibility, prefabrication, and transformability. The concept was inspired by the famous axonometric drawing of the K67 kiosk, reinterpreted into a structure that allows visitors to experience the details, components, and materials firsthand.

The installation was symbolically launched by recreating an everyday scene in which the kiosk figures in collective memory – as part of urban life. The jury, consisting of Prof. Leo Modričin, Assoc. Prof. Rok Kuhar, and architect Aleksandar Lilić, recognized not only the architectural quality of the outcome but also its contribution to the educational process and inter-institutional collaboration.

International project RED Kiosk Transformer. | Author: IC Prostor
Participants from the FA BUT included architect Kristýna Smržová, Petr Preininger, Sofia Maksymova, Aneta Gallová, Jakub Suchanek, and Adéla Ťupová.


The project (Iconic) RED Kiosk – A Journey to Modernist Heritage is part of the experimental platform xRED, initiated by the Research Center for Space and the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy at the University of Banja Luka. Partners also include CULTstore Novi Sad (Serbia), Kobra Arch Brno (Czech Republic), and the K67 Restoration Team in Celje (Slovenia). The project is supported by the CEEPUS A.B.C.D. network, the organization DOCOMOMO BiH, and sponsors including the Danube Small Project Fund and the company MB Modul.

Source: Faculty of Architecture

Author BcA. Lucie Tranová
Published
Link https://www.vut.cz/en/but/f19528/d291075
Faculty of Architecture umění a architektura award