Building better future

Karolína is an expert in sustainable buildings and an accredited specialist for LEED, BREEAM and WELL certification systems. She co-founded ZERO Architecture (rebranded as KORE in spring 2024) together with Martin.
She is also the co-founder of Rethink Architecture, an NPO that provides education about sustainable architecture.
She gained experience working as a sustainability coordinator for an international construction development company, as a researcher at the University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings at the CTU, and as a project manager and board member at the Czech Green Building Council.
Karolína graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft (NL) and the Faculty of Civil engineering at CTU in Prague.

Martin is an architect and an interior designer. He consistently seeks to push for the best combination of solutions to achieve the highest possible sustainable solution in our projects. He draws on his work experience from architectural studios based in Prague where he worked, as well as studios based in Rotterdam (NL) and his hometown Banská Bystrica (SVK). In his career, he participated in many projects at various scales: such as the renovation and refurbishment of a heritage-protected building, the design of townhouses in Rotterdam, the modernization of hotel rooms, the design and construction of offices and countless designs of newly built and renovated family houses. In 2019, Martin and Karolína founded ZERO Architecture, the company known as KORE today. He graduated from the CTU in Prague, first at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and then at the Faculty of Architecture.

Tomáš is an architect and builder who has been working in the construction industry for more than 12 years. He is inspired by architects of the past who not only designed buildings, but also built them. He has been a part of KORE since 2020. Thanks to his many years of experience in designing, projecting and implementing buildings, he combines the aesthetic work of an architect with the technical pragmatism of a civil engineer.
In his work, he draws on his experience in designing sustainable residential projects throughout the Czech Republic and also from his work in a construction company that focuses on building renovations.
He graduated in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Jiří has been in the field of construction sustainability for over 10 years. He started his professional career in the field of technical supervision of HVAC, where he gradually began to focus on sustainability in construction and environmental building certification systems.
He followed up his career as a Head of Sustainability at CBRE, Prague.
Jiří has been involved in LEED, BREEAM and WELL certifications for many projects in the Czech Republic, including the first Czech LEED + WELL Platinum certification ever.
He’s been part of KORE since 2024 and he focuses on holistic ESG consulting in the construction and the real estate sectors.

Martin has more than ten years of experience in construction and facility management. His domain is commissioning and his goal is efficient building operation. At KORE, he is responsible for the services of indoor environmental quality measurements, including the “performance verification” service required to obtain WELL certification. He holds LEED AP, BREEAM AP and WELL AP qualifications.

Jana's primary focus in our team is on environmental building certification of buildings. She draws on her extensive experience in building design and implementation. She has worked in a Prague-based architectural firm, and also for a construction company in Türkiye, where she was involved, among other things, in the construction of a local power plant.
She graduated in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the CTU in Prague.

Markéta is an architect and interior designer with an eye for subtle elegance seeking to create a harmony of materials and colours. She aims to maximize space with regard to functionality and practicality, while maintainnig attention to detail.
She draws on her experience at Prague-based architectural firms at which she previously worked and focused primarily on the design of apartment houses and single-family houses including complete interior designs.
Markéta has won the Architects’ Grand Prix 2022 and the Czech Architecture Award 2022 for the Residential House project Residence Michelangelova in Prague, in the category of Sustainable Construction.

Štěpán is a civil engineer and draftsman. Originally, he studied the Environmental Engineering, and in the meantime, he graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the CTU in Prague. During his studies, he was working at a Prague-based architectural firm and after graduation, he has gained experience working in his hometown, Sušice, to which he moved in 2022. At KORE, Štěpán has been primarily drawing up construction plans and documents for all stages of the permit process.

Jan is a young and energetic architecture enthusiast who started his academic career by studying the Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture at the CTU in Prague, focusing on sustainability in design. He has been expanding his knowledge at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, where he has been studying Territorial Technical and Administrative Service in the Environment. He has put his skills to use not just as a KORE team member, but also in the field of education as an active volunteer and lecturer at an NPO.

Vojtěch is an architect born in Zlín, a city known for its unique architecture, which constantly inspires him. He is currently in the final year of his studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the CTU in Prague. Vojtěch already succeeded in the faculty’s competition called “Druhá kůže” for the best residential building design.
He also attended the Erasmus student exchange program, during which he took part of lectures at HCU Hamburg (DE), which broadened his horizons and brought valuable experience.
At KORE, Vojtěch took part in several single-family house projects, apartment renovations and office redesigns. He designed a reusable pavilion for a trade fair and was a part of a team competing to design skiing facilities in Iceland.

Viviana began her university studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Czech Technical University, where she discovered her passion for technical details and the need to understand how things work. From the beginning of her bachelor’s program, she knew that the next level of her studies would be the field of Intelligent Buildings under the administration of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University. She completed her studies by taking the state exam at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in cooperation with colleagues from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, where she subsequently started her doctoral studies. As part of her follow-up studies, she taught one semester about technical building systems. In the last year of her master’s program, she worked at ČEZ a.s., at the division of conventional and renewable energy, as a trainee.