Family house near Brno

The investor's requirement was to create a pleasant and attractive recreational residence with the option for longer year-round stays. The idea of creating a inhabited rural barn loosely set in the meadow dictated the use of the main material of the house - stone. The static requirements of the structure, arising primarily from the sizes and shapes of openings - the main compositional factors in the elementary envelope, ultimately led to the decision to "cast" the entire object from reinforced concrete. Horizontal visible strips of concrete at the level of the first floor and the attic bear infill walls made of rough stone - Moravian rubble. Stone is also used on the sloping roof surfaces.
The shape of the house is maximally modest and elementary - a rectangle measuring 16.6 x 8.3 m. The ridge of the gable roof is not centrally placed, and the heights of the parapets are at different levels. This compositional play corresponds to the internal program in the attic. Two dormers, framed by exposed concrete, are the only more pronounced compositional element of the mass. The main compositional elements are large openings in the facade reacting in various ways to the layout of the house. These consist of large French windows, horizontal windows to highlight the surrounding landscape from the interior view, and also the "recession" of the mass in the form of a loggia and a recessed porch.