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Co-author: Marek Nabelek The villa is located in a suburban environment with outstanding views to surrounding landscape. The design concept has reflected and enhanced these site qualities. The volume has been designed as a single storey as it was the main client requirement. The horizontal concept has produced an intense spatial relationship of all the interior spaces with the surrounding garden. This exterior - interior relationship has been based on Wrightian ideas for prerie houses which many Czech architects have adopted subsequently. Our design is developing this concept further. The building is located in the middle part of the property, on its highest point, a predominantly flat plateau, so that the large property is used generously in all aspects and sides with all |
views are taken into account. There is no front street or rear elevation, but a modular concept in which interior spaces are interchanged with a series of atriums or, as we think of them, external rooms. The building is a mass of walls and openings arranged in a manner which has produced in itself an organic plan shape and elevational tretment. This mass has been braced by an exposed concrete parapet, a structural feature which enhances the horizontality of the building. The exact and heavy form is actentuated by a tall fireplace chimney located as a stand alone element in its own right. The slim chimney is a reflection of the industrial heritage of the Ostrava city context. |
