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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Family House Dlhé Diely I in Bratislava, Slovakia by plusminusarchitectsAugust 12th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: plusminusarchitects Dlhé Diely Dlhé Diely isa hilly residential area in the western part of Bratislava. It originsat the foothills of the Little Carpathians. By the end of the seventiesit was a place of gardens and vineyards of varieties sought throughout the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the early eighties,a construction of housing estates started and subsequently degraded the original character of the environment.  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík
 Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík The original authenticity of the place was retained only in peripheral positions, which now form a transition zone between the purely natural environment of Devínská Kobyla and prefabricated housing estates. These streets carry fairly universal (ratherby surface) names: Dlhé Diely I, II, and III. Thanks to their location in direct contact with the Little Carpathians and theKarloveské embankment of the Danube river, they have become a popular location for the construction of individual family houses and small urban villas. Original garden cottages and old houses gradually subside to this typology.  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík Plot and a house The house has been implemented on a steep, eastward sloping hillside. It stands adjacent to single-family houses from different time periods, which together form the street line. It is reflectedwith an extrusion of a floor to the street. The bulk of the volume then departs from the street frontage to the south with the aim of creating a more intimate space (western terrace cut intoslope) with no visual contact with the housing estate at the top of a hill.  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík Ground shape follows the maximum compactness and a minimum ground plan track. Due the sloping terrain,the house is divided into four floors, so that living rooms can be oriented to the east, south and west side. Three floors have direct contact with garden and hence extend the intensive residential use of gardens. Placement of the house eliminates the view of prefabricated housing estates on the northeast side of the slope and strengthens the attractive views of the southwestern part of Bratislava and the Austrian Hainburg.  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík Spatial resolution of the house On the lowest floor, directly accessible from the street, is a garage and technical / house storage facilities. The layout of the next floors is a combination of embedded communication and hygiene core along the northern facade and an “open living space” with variable breakdown by closet-walls. The second floor, which is also the entrance floor, varies such concept with an extruded volume of an office serving as an office with direct access for customers.  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík Layout solution and its breakdown by closet-walls allows different proportions of floors. Separate entrance from the garden on the north side and a communication core ready for implementation of the lift directly counts with multi-generational use in the near future.  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík The house is built as a combination of reinforced concrete and masonry brick parts. All ceilings and some interior walls are left as a visual concrete. Floors throughout the house are cast of resin in yellow colour. Part of the furniture and equipment is custom made, other partcomes from owners’ previous flat and will be replaced in the future.  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík The studio Slovakia based studio Plusminusarchitects was founded in 2004 in Bratislava, currently is composed of permanent members Maroš Fečík,Filip Kandravý and other co-workers or friends. As architects, we are interested in wide range of projects. From small design objects through interiors and houses for private clients, to public buildings and urban studies. Our approach to architecture as well as to customers leads to create unique precisely tailored solutions, taking taking care at interests, priorities and financial capabilities of the client. However, we use the same approach in relation to corporate client.  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík The context in which the building is located is very important to us, because it contains future solution. Projects are always processed in maximum detail and most of the buildings as architects we also deal in the course of an intensive form of supervision. We take every assignment as a new challenge, we care about the concept, but also the final detail. We keep saying, that there is no need to bring things but to take them away, and therefore we are also trying to clean our projects to the maximum, to be clear and true. Our important means of expression is true materiality, therefore we are always trying to showthe structure.  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík  Image Courtesy © Maroš Fečík  Image Courtesy © plusminusarchitects  Image Courtesy © plusminusarchitect  Image Courtesy © plusminusarchitects  Image Courtesy © plusminusarchitects  Image Courtesy © plusminusarchitects
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