Article source: e-MRAK – Martin Rajniš

The client purchased land in a protected nature reserve known as “Czech Canada”: wide meadows and rock outcroppings surrounded with pines. His wish was to build a stack here. What emerged is a house of nine modules of 3.60 m: the two modules at the edges are left open as terraces. The entire northern side is insulated and simultaneously forms, as in Japan, a long cabinet with sliding doors. The southern, eastern and western sides of the house are glazed from inside. The sliding dilation joint allows for fixed swinging frames with double glazing to be fitted even into the structure of the lumber stack, which can change its dimensions with damp or gradual drying of the wood. Experimentation with the hollow lumber stack here reached the level of a fully inhabitable house, where the tectonics of the hollow lumber stack simultaneously serve as a pleasant, firm external shading that prevents the emergence of a greenhouse effect inside.

Image Courtesy © Radka Ciglerova

• Architects: e-MRAK – Martin Rajniš, Václav Horecký, Kamila Amblerová 
• Project: Stack in Slavonice
• Location: Slavonice, Czech Republic
• Floor area: 74m2
• Built-up area: 164m2
• Builder space: 454m3
• Year: 2007

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