The villa stands at the edge of Františkovy Lázně, on the boundary between current development and free landscape. The plot is part of a regulated area zoned for residential development. The design strives to foresee the future surroundings of the plot and to reflect them, to create intimacy and sense of privacy, while making the most of the contact with the free landscape.
The house concept combines two opposing methods of delineating the territory.
On the ground floor, the living area flows between massive blocks. The boundaries of the house are not clearly defined. The blocks constitute the main load-bearing construction of the house, while concentrating the technical facilities and amenities a guest room and swimming pool with sauna.
The transition between the interior and the exterior is achieved merely through a glass wall.
The first floor duplicates the plan of the ground floor. Its space, however, does not extend beyond the interior but is contained by a wall which defines the fundamental frame of the house. Contact between the house and the outside world is mediated by materials (wood, stone, grass, free space). The sense of privacy is thus maintained despite the most extensive use of glazing in bathrooms and bedrooms. Apertures in the wall offer views of the landscape.
In terms of construction, the house is built as a ferroconcrete casting with interrupted thermal bridges and interior thermal insulation. A steel skeleton with a wooden ceiling was chosen to face concrete poured into moulds from rough-sawn planks, glass, bangkirai wood on the terraces, aluminium window frames and sheet metal.