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Lazy House in Zlín, Czech Republic by petrjanda/brainwork

Thursday, August 26th, 2021

Article source: petrjanda/brainwork

Idea

The idea of the house goes beyond its physical form and is built from the inside out on the principle of spatial connection with the environment from which it grows and which it overlooks. The concept is based on the relationship between the house and the city, the house and the garden, and the garden and the city. The relationship scheme is repeated inside the house. The interior communal part flowing through the entire house continues to the exterior and all the separate private parts have their own extroverted relationships. The visual appearance of the house is defined by its inner nature and the permeability of its physical body‘s (non) separation of the interior from the exterior. Privacy is maintained by facade membranes that allow the maximum view from the inside out, but reduces it from the outside in. To set it in the context of the garden and the city, the house uses material mimicry.

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Architects: petrjanda/brainwork
Project: Lazy House
Location: Zlín, Czech Republic
Photography: BoysPlayNice
Author: Petr Janda, lead architect
Built-up Area: 225 m²
Gross Floor Area: 400 m²
Usable Floor Area: 345 m²
Plot size: 1400 m²
Project Year: 2006-2020
Completion Year: 2020

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Restoration of the Tomáš Baťa Memorial in Zlin, Czech Republic by Petr Všetečka / TRANSAT architekti

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Article source: Petr Všetečka / TRANSAT architekti

The building by František Lýdie Gahura, opened one year after the death of Tomáš Baťa, is the most valuable monument of the Zlín constructivism and the highlight of the so-called “Baťa architecture” phenomenon. At the first glance the idea for the monument is simple: an empty prism placed on a visible spot above the town, on the central axis of the ascending park space, made up of several modules of the Zlín 6.15 x 6.15 m frame and clad only with cathedral glass. Inside, only the ill-fated Junkers F 13 aircraft in which Tomáš Baťa died in 1932.

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Architects: Petr Všetečka / TRANSAT architekti
Project: Restoration of the Tomáš Baťa Memorial
Location: Náměstí T. G. Masaryka 2570, Zlín, Czech Republic
Photography: Jakub Skokan and Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice
Collaborators: Karel Menšík, Alena Všetečková, Petr Daniel
Investor: The City of Zlín (monument renewal) in cooperation with the Zlín region (spaces inside the Gymnasium building) and the Tomáš Baťa Foundation (the Model of the Junkers aircraft)
Built-up Area: 680 m²
Usable Floor Area: 1592 m²
Enclosed Volume: 9200 m³
Project Year: 2012 – 2016
Completion Year: 2016 – 2019

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Loft 32 Zlín in Czech Republic by petrjanda/brainwork

Wednesday, June 26th, 2019

Article source: petrjanda/brainwork

The loft is situated on the 8th floor of a former Baťa shoe factory building in Zlín, overlooking the green heart of the town. Its design aims to integrate the town’s image into the space of the apartment. The design approach contradicts the usual loft-making procedure, which emphasizes industrial materials in the interior, by transforming the space into an abstract composition with the industrial aspect presented through the view of the surrounding area, framed by the Zlín skyscraper and the valley. The inner space features the gradual opening of the individual epicentres of the apartment. Its open space allows the separation of the social and private parts by using multi-level differentiation, rather than sharp divides. The interior is defined by the main social space, framed by the curved furniture partition wall and the built-in kitchen, which hides two rooms, a bathroom, an entrance hall and a “secret” staircase. The main elevated space can be accessed through this partition, defined by the ramp gently ascending from the kitchen and dining area, past the play area in front of the window and through the space between the two atypical sofas to the bedroom, with its built-in round bathtub. The space is formed by the symbiotic structure composed of triangles that spirals around the centre of the layout and creates a stage that also functions as an auditorium, offering a view of the town. The materials are in fine shades of white – whitened birch plywood, white leatherette upholstery and white PVC flooring – accentuated with glass railing dividers and sliding bedroom partitions, with the kitchen in high gloss and mosaic tiles.