Pod Hády – a magical place at the foot of a hill with an abandoned quarry, above a natural village structure behind a railway station called ´Korea´, below large panel estates on plains (Vinohrady, Líšeň), between green gates, in touch with Moravský kras. How can a place be glorified, from which the dominants of Brno are in full view, yet the quarry where one can have a nice swim is closer? 
We have felt ever since the first moment that this place was for those people the town had already released, but who still wanted to stay close without feeling as its everyday captives. For those who step down from the concrete matrix of panel estates on benches to get in a closer touch with the country. Primarily, we tried to spread the required development over an area of a garden neighbourhood. The coefficient of the GFA 0.5 seemed appropriate to us until we deducted the infrastructure protection zones. The resulting density of the development did not allow visual contact with the distant horizons and views.  Unfortunately, even the fall of the terrain was not sufficient to see over the neighbouring low-rise buildings. Therefore, we tried to intensify the development. We arranged the buildings so that they would block views as little as possible and always offer some benefit – for example a private land or lovely views to the town or the quarry. Inspired by the stages of ´Růženin lom´ (quarry), we tried to arrange them in cascades of organic curves caressing the soft terrain and modelling its edges. The final setup of masses is linear, not flat. The first rootstalk of the linear development extends the individual development at the Jarní street from Korea. On the higher stage above it, there is a cascade consisting of a line of row family houses. It crowns the slope forming a sort of a citadel with stories stepping down towards the centre, repeating the Villa Tugendhat effect – a breathtaking view of the town opens when one descends one floor from the street to the garden. Due to the vertical difference, we can see the development along Jarní, but we are, at the same time, lower than the northeast stage defined as the community centre of the layout. An artificial pond is in its middle; public amenities are in the block cut into the terrain along the northeast bank – a commercial streetscape benefiting from the prime position at the embankment promenade, again providing beautiful views of the town. The unavoidable evil of the gas-line protection zone transforms into a generous green area establishing the front of the primary motive of the composition – an anguine residential building inspired by walls in the nearby quarry. A four- to five-storied mass consists of a row of independent staircase sections. Flats maximally exploit the position between two attractive views – the south-west to the veduta of Brno and the northeast to Růženin lom and the Hád hill. The occupants thus can every day enjoy staying on the border between the town and the country. Flats on the ground floor benefit from large front gardens.
A service road copying the building is situated to the northeast side, the same as the other street front established by two-storied residential villas. Other layers follow increasingly replicating the terrain, only the intensity of the development changes softening from row to detached bungalows along the developed area. Even the ground floor homes, benefiting from the ascending terrain, enjoy the view to the town and Hády.
The place provides a unique experience of a borderline – a verge between an urban space and a country, an edge position above the town yet below the quarry; a position between an urban sprawl and planned urbanism. It offers experiences between a workday and a holiday.