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Sumit Singhal
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.

Weekend House in Bukovany, Czech Republic by SENAA architekti

 
February 23rd, 2022 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: SENAA architekti

The house lies in a pleasant wine cellar lane with limited access for construction equipment. We had to abandon the original reconstruction plan after the actual condition was discovered. The new building respects the footprint and shape of the old house.

The house could be conceptually divided into several layout and structural parts. The bedroom, bathroom and toilet occupy the brick part – originally a living area. The glazed living room stands on the site of the former goat sheds and is structurally a steel structure. The superstructure is made of wood and houses a sauna with a relaxation area.

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

  • Architects: SENAA architekti
  • Project: Weekend House
  • Location: Bukovany, Czech Republic
  • Photography: Alex Shoots Buildings
  • Design team: Kateřina Zabadalová, Jan Gadziala
  • Built-up Area: 98 m²
  • Gross Floor Area: 142 m²
  • Usable Floor Area: 115 m²
  • Plot size: 235 m²
  • Project Year: 2019
  • Completion Year: 2021

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

The house uses every bit of the steep sloping plot. On the 230 m2 area, in addition to the house itself, there is a bike shed and above the roof terrace, there is a swimming pool tucked into the slope with a panoramic view of the surroundings.

The house has a traditional morphology but combines modern details with historical technologies. For example, we set a hand-hewn loft ceiling into a steel structure, which continues into frameless large-scale glazing. The interior plaster is coloured and polished without any additional surface treatment. Another distinctive softening element are the rounded corners of the window lining and lintels. We also applied a traditional Japanese folk technique of charred wood shou-sugi-ban and the entire superstructure of the sauna house on the roof terrace is treated in this way.

The mixture of the variety of details and the overall layout creates an architectural experience of the space and shows the possibility of implementing modern architecture in the historical context of the cellar lane.

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © Alex Shoots Buildings

Image Courtesy © SENAA architekti

Image Courtesy © SENAA architekti

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