City Villa
family house
project detail
The motif of "interface" clearly characterises the place in terms of morphology, urbanism, greenery and atmosphere. It culminates on the edge of the plain, where individual houses "balance", defined from the south by a distinct terrain break descending towards the Prague basin in the area of Smíchov. Panoramic views across Smíchov to the Vltava valley, Vyšehrad and the opposite Paví vrch with its rich greenery dominate here. The surrounding buildings are scattered and uncompact.
The form of the house is composed into three main masses like the surrounding buildings - the plinth, the living floor and the intimate bedroom floor. The plinth is formed by the perimeter wall of the house and a fence along the street and two retaining walls at the eastern and western boundaries of the site, which remain unaltered from the previous buildings.
The gable of the house forms the street parterre. It is conceived as a gabion wall with pre-set empty baskets with pro-growth greenery, in which the locksmith's gate and gate are integrated. Three continuous load-bearing cylinders project from the plinth section, in which the facilities for the floor are mainly concentrated. The above-ground part of the house is designed as a light and subtle all-glass structure, which is complemented by the three massive load-bearing cylinders mentioned above. Above the full-glazed living floor, the mass of the bedroom floor is set on cylinders with a predominantly solid façade. The exception is the south façade, which is open to the maximum extent. The expression of the mass of the bedroom floor will be largely defined by a system of large-format pre-set façade louvres. The roof of the plinth and bedroom area is predominantly green with an intensive composition complemented by paving.