A family house in a new development in a foothill village

The house is situated on the extended outskirts of the village near a larger town. The city is located in western Bohemia, an extended municipality in the foothills, in a protected landscape area with building regulations requiring mainly gable roofs. The figure of the building is therefore a linear extension of the characteristic cross-section of the house with a gable roof, bent twice to fit the width of the plot. The main volume of the house is laid parallel to the street boundary of the plot, the characteristic view of the gable walls comes from the garden and the street. The folded shape adds privacy to the outdoor spaces when entering the house and exiting the garden.

Life in the house takes place mainly in the space of the ground floor, bordered by the bedroom near the street gable, the study near the garden. The main living space in the central part opens up to the garden through a deep southern gable. In the attic there are two rooms of growing children near the street gable, there was no need to add more rooms here. The roof slopes smoothly into the garden, with the space open to the living rooms. Above the living space it adds adequate height, in the study it decreases to the proportions of an (almost) garden house.
The treatment of the building and interiors is in accordance with the taste of the owners, moderate to austere, composed mainly of a range of standard, grey-white buildings and furniture materials.

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  w: Marek Pavlík (structural engineer), Jan Kolář (civil engineer)
  J.P.R.Universal (framing, carpentry)
  photo: Robert Žákovič