House for Active Seniors // Staré Město u Bruntálu

The large north facing glazing of the living spaces is complemented with southern skylight windows, which bring the necessary direct sunlight into the interior.

Owing to the different opinions of the married couple, whether the design should be modern or traditional, an original concept was created. The house consists of two different masses which together form an X-shape floor plan.

We designed the appropriate house for our clients with a fondness for Japanese gardens, whose architecture refers to Japanese houses. The house shape and the materials used create a bay of tranquillity in the rushed world.

At the clients´ request we refurbished the older bungalow of square floor plan and extended it with new rooms. The shape of the house remained simple and inconspicuous from the outside. There is a glazed atrium within the layout, that brings a daylight into the middle of the house.

All large windows of this house lead to the terrace and close from the surrounding world. The house thus makes its own island of privacy on small plot with nearby neighbors.

The house rising from a slope above surrounding landscape was solved in contemporary Tuscan style. Becoming stone cladding combined with green roof and private atrium with the contribution the Nový Jičín highland views give the house the remarkable spirit.

On a small plot on the outskirts of the city, very inconspicuous and simple house in the shape of symmetrical “U”, in which a spacious terrace hidden from the surrounding sights is placed, was designed.

Unconventionally, the house was designed as an extension to the existing garage located in the garden with many mature trees, which have been preserved to the maximum extent. The inner atrium and facade timber cladding emphasize the original spirit of the garden.

However the investor didn't prefer a pitched roof, the regulations given for his plot did not offer him any choice. We tried to incorporate this roof type into a simple mass and thereby suppress it as much as possible to comply with the client's original wish.