Reconstruction of a house from the nineties

In Čestlice, in the 1990s, a house was built with an architectural form typical for that period. After nearly 30 years, it welcomed a proposal for radical reconstruction to make it more user-friendly for the owners and to reflect their aesthetic thinking more closely.
The initial intention was to move the main living area to the level of the garden. This was realized by an extension in the northern part of the plot, which also serves as a visual and acoustic barrier dividing the usable part of the garden from the street.
The extension is at the level of a hypothetical landing of the staircase leading from the basement to the raised ground floor. A new main entrance has been placed here, intersecting between the volumes of the original building and the new part. The entire second floor has been removed, and the former attic floor has become the new roof. The remaining usable area is still very generous and allows for a spacious layout without cramped corridors.
The lowered mass of the original house, together with the extension, creates a completely new volumetric composition.
Artistically, the house in some elements refers to modernism of the first half of the 20th century, which is close to the investors. The facade is treated with smooth and ribbed plaster to differentiate between the new and the original. The glazed areas are newly in fewer numbers but larger dimensions, creating a feeling that the scale of the house's mass is smaller.
The simplicity of the solution is also reflected in the interior, which works with exposed structural elements, retro furniture that the owners already own, and relatively inexpensive yet aesthetically valuable materials.