Multifunctional House ABC – Object 01

The object 01 marks the beginning of a row of houses lining Plzeňská Street and separating the newly emerging square. It finds itself in a position that calls for the most transparent architecture possible, which will not obstruct the desirable and inviting views into the interior of the square, enclosed by the facades of the other new buildings.
The design accommodates this condition with a high two-story base, which will serve commercial purposes, and therefore features large, floor-to-ceiling glazed transparent shop windows with a minimized frame grid.
The upper floors, containing rentable offices, are equipped with a double, maximally glazed facade designed to eliminate thermal and mainly noise burdens in the area. The inner layer has a dense grid of operable windows for maximum flexibility in interior layout. Between the two layers of the double facade, a screen of horizontal silver blinds is installed, creating a delicate web of horizontal stripes on the black background of the frames and glass. The area of the sills responds to this play with insulating panels made of a glass sandwich printed with black horizontal stripes against a backdrop of polished stainless steel sheets covering the thermal insulation.
Thus, the building received a "coat" that, in its black-silver elegance, absorbs all the colors and moods of the surrounding life.
The seventh above-ground floor is recessed on all sides, creating a rooftop terrace on the ceiling of the 6th floor, covered with a steel galvanized grid, among which one can also imagine aesthetically used greenery. The railing of this terrace is made of clear glass, which completely opens the view into the surrounding city and landscape.
A smooth silver rounded roof is stretched over the reinforced concrete ceiling slab of the seventh floor, creating a calming covering for several machine rooms. Perfect ventilation of these technical spaces is ensured by large circular openings covered with a mesh of expanded metal.
The color of the object will be formed by the natural color of the glass (with a minimal reflection factor), the black grid of the frames, the second plane of silver blinds, the silver cladding of the rounded roof reflecting sunlight, as well as the entire smooth skin of the building, which at night allows the internal light influenced by the colors of the interior to shine through. The silver background of the insulating panels on the sills will only be perceived occasionally, under certain light conditions. More pronounced color accents will likely come only from future possible advertising signs placed on the aforementioned selected surfaces, or potentially the designed orange color of the internal vertical communication core, penetrating from the interior to the surface.