AECCafe: Baugruppe in Prague, Czech Republic by No Architects

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Sumit Singhal
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.

Baugruppe in Prague, Czech Republic by No Architects

March 27th, 2021 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: No Architects

Living in an own historic but individually reconstructed house with a garden just several steps away from an underground station is a dream that can come true for really few families with small children. However, if three such families united their efforts to buy a three-storey villa that needed reconstruction, we were sure it would be a very interesting experiment. And that we have to find a rational way not only to the implementation and to the operation of such housing type, no utopia.

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Architects: No Architects
Project: Baugruppe
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Photography: Studio Flusser
Author: Jakub Filip Novák, Daniela Baráčková
Co-author: Barbora Jelínek, Martin Hlusička, Eva Maštálková
Client: Baugruppe
Built-up Area: 130 m2
Gross Floor Area: 465 m2
Usable Floor Area: 387 m2
Plot size: 400 m2
Project year: 2015-2017
Completion year: 2019

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We designed completely separated apartment for each of the families on each floor. We excavated and deepened the cellar in order to place shared premises of the house including a laundry, cellars and technical background area plus a shared club room.

We conceived the house from the 1930s as it was intended – first among equals – a structure dominating the houses in the block. We added new window openings to enhance the gable symmetry and reinstate its tectonic poetry lost due to the installation of thermal insulation cladding. The garden concept completes the overall design of this urban housing. We demolished the garage and built three capacity bike parking structures and a common gardening tools shed instead of it.

Individual apartments were designed respecting the spirit of the house that was translated to the distinctive living style language of individual families.

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Tags: Czech Republic, Prague

Categories: House, Residential

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