Beta Realities  and Klaska Inc. reinvent one of Prague’s central industrial areas and transform it into a lively mixed-use quarter. Under the motto of a “phoenix rising from the ashes”, the Fenix masterplan proposes an innovative model of holistic living intertwined with collaborative work environments and recreational facilities activating the site’s largely untouched ecosystem. The architecture answers to the site’s unique conditions in a carefully crafted and responsive way: due to its proximity to the Vltava river high flood levels the architectural intervention only touches the earth lightly and elevates all private residential and work areas to create a fully permeable public realm and meandering pathways through the buildings – their footprints being used as semi-open ‘social porches’ for neighbourhood and community activities.