Dostavba domu v Libochovanech

Dostavba domu v Libochovanech
We are asking how to adapt a hundred-year-old, poorly maintained house to the current everyday life of a larger family (small usable area, technologies and materials beyond their lifespan, lack of sanitary facilities...) while not disrupting all the subtle and hard-to-capture weaves and layers that create the strong character of the original (familiar) house and place.
The usable area of the house (30 m² per floor) does not allow for everything necessary to be added inside. I therefore leave the house's layout almost unchanged and supplement everything outside – where the original wood shed was on the western side of the house (kitchen), in the place of the toilet on the southern facade (bathrooms), and in front of the entrance on the east (vestibule).
The form of the extensions is derived from the proportions and shape of the existing house, which is essentially a composition of cubes above two floor plan squares (the vertical of the staircase and the living area of the house).
Similarly, I am adding five cubes – two create the added horizontal of the kitchen, two create the embedded vertical of the sanitary facilities, and one serves as the new vestibule. The addition is clearly distinguishable from the original house. The larch surface of the new structure is hierarchized by the color of the oil coating - black kitchen / white hygiene / raw entrance.
I would like the new addition to function like a lichen. The symbiotic form of the fungus (for us, wooden structure) and algae – ensuring photosynthesis, thus the life cycle (for us, the functional content of the extensions), is harmless due to its self-nourishing ability. Colorfully and structurally, it can create unexpectedly strong relationships with it.
I hope that the newly added will naturally become a part of the layered and vibrant place over time.
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pekne
lubos cervenak
28.06.12 04:26
Bravo
Michala Hrncirova
30.06.12 07:33
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pba
05.07.12 04:58
Gutt
Augustin Jirouch
18.10.12 11:06
vidím to jinak...
s.j.k.
09.11.12 11:26
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