To encourage architecture that provides a more specific gaze inward and out, directed near and far.

Brno is the second city of the Czech Republic and is arrayed across and between a series of low hills. Positioning architecture carefully on these hills, we have tried to encourage a form of caring urbanism. We propose to call this Belvedere Architecture. A Belvedere is a building that enables a view and, alongside being aspect and outlook, a view is also an opinion or consideration. The projects here attempt to target the experience of the beautiful view by providing architectural moments that mediate the depth, datum and horizon line of what is seen, alongside the direction of vistas. The city beyond the site becomes a collaborator with the proposed activities, by virtue of how it is experienced architecturally.