Almost no furniture gets in the way in the hall designed by Karl Prager in the 1960s. The walls and ceiling are black and make the main element stand out. It is a wide-angle projection wall with dimensions of 24 x 4 meters, which is operated by four projectors at the same time.

The projection technology makes it possible to show the future shape of the street in a 1:1 ratio, while details such as the height of the curb can be seen, or to have hectares of Prague’s development areas from a drone as if in the palm of your hand. Part of the hall is dedicated to an amphitheater with more than a hundred seats for discussions, there is also a library and a cafe.

According to IPR director Ondřej Boháč, CAMP is intended to serve as a forum for debates about the development of Prague, individual projects, and architecture. According to Boháč, this is now a very heated topic that is not considered rationally. CAMP should change that. “This is a place that was missing, which will create a neutral ground. Sort of like the blue helmets United Nations“, said Boháč.

Not only new space was created. Architecture critic Adam Gebrian, who works with IPR, has put together a database of important new construction projects in Prague, both private and public. In a basic overview, the database covers dozens of projects from the expansion of the treatment plant on Císařská ostrov to the business center at Masaryk railway station to the case of the demolished house on the corner of Wenceslas Square and Opletalova Street and the planned new building in its place.

Even Gebrian did not manage to get documents from the investors for all the projects that I requested on behalf of IPR. “We wanted to collect around a hundred of them, I have two-thirds of them, we didn’t get a third for various reasons,” said Gebrian.

The database will also appear on the website at praha.camp. According to Gebrian, it should be a standard, which, however, was not a standard in Prague, let alone concentrated in one place. At the same time, other cities have an overview of all construction activities.

In addition to creating a metropolitan plan and many other activities, IPR represents Prague in territorial proceedings. Still, Gebrian doesn’t want the CAMPU project database to include every garage. It is supposed to be the most significant interventions in the form of the city, of which there are not a few. “It will be a certain prestige for every investor to meet Gebrian’s expectations in that database.

CAMP will screen architectural films and organize more professional discussions. The first of the important ones is scheduled to come up on November 20 and concern the project of the new Smíchov City district of the developer group Sekyra Group. Prague contributed to the CAMP – held since 2012, in which the IPR was born from the then City Development Department.

According to IPR spokesman Marek Vácha, it was a subsidy of about 14 million crowns, with the fact that the annual operation of 5 to 6 million crowns is to be covered by IPR from its own funds. “We are able to rent it, but the themes are related to the city,” added the spokesperson.