Cartusiae Waldiczensis
Regional Museum and Gallery in Jičín, CZ
29.11.2008 - 01.03.2009
Cartusiae Waldiczensis
Locked World / History of the Monastery 1627 - 1782
The exhibition contains reconstruction proposals by Petr Uličný and Miloš Šejn
Study of the restoration of the church of St. Josef of the former Carthusian monastery in Valdice
Design by Petr Uličný, Miloš Šejn, 2003
In 2003, in cooperation with a team of authors, an architectural study was prepared for the management of Valdice Prison, serving as a concept for the anticipated restoration of this remarkable and significantly affected building.
The design envisaged the use of the interior of the building for prisoners and in limited traffic also for visitors interested in the history of the Valdice Carthusian and Valdice Prisons. Such a solution requires a division of space, which is solved by restoring the original lectures, demolished during the reconstruction of the church in the 1960s. Side chapels would be used for the permanent exhibition mapping the history of both periods, accessible to prison visitors, while the presbytery of the church would serve the prisoners as a multifunctional hall.
Both spaces could be used for cultural purposes, while the podium could be served by the terrace of the lecturer, in the presence of both visitors to the ship and prisoners in the presbytery. When installing the altar, it will be similarly possible to use the terrace to remarkably dramatize the mass ritual and return the space to its original purpose.
Because the mass of the lecturer changes the impression of freedom and openness of today's space, the study also brings a proposal for a transparent solution.
The artistic concept of the lecture is based on the emblem of the Carthusian order, formed by a blue (or silver) shield with a blue (or silver) globe with a golden cross, surrounded by seven stars reminiscent of the seven founders of the Great Carthusian.
The front wall of the lecture is in the full variant treated with the structure of blue azurite, which turns into gray-silver rock, made by the technique of artificial marble. In the open variant, the vistas are closed by two glass walls, which close large-area slides with an azurite rock motif.
Both railings are crowned by seven lanterns in the form of stars, composed of plates of polished agate and chalcedony. The same construction is the central bark lamp - a box in the shape of a Greek cross, composed of honey-colored chalcedony plates. The underside is open and light flows from there onto the square plate of the altar canteen. Lamp - the cross is hung on a chain, repeating the motif of gilded stars.
The altar canteen is treated with the technique of artificial marble, repeating the central motif of the front wall. In the middle of the canteen, on the principle of the altar remains, a thin square azurite slab is set, and in the middle of the canopy there is a small square of gray-silver mica.
Zprávy památkové péče 2/2009