Situated within the Hlubocepy district in Prague, Czech Republic is a household residence alongside a wildlife hall. Designed by RO_AR structure studio, the house incorporates a concrete roof topped with grass, and is meant to be a “bridge between the city and the pure”. The house is supposed to be a “conflict of two geometries” and incorporates a rectilinear kind clad in skinny oak slats.
Designer: RO_AR Structure
“City area surrounds the positioning on the south and east sides. It’s a chaotic and random improvement, usually adversely affecting the worth of the terrain. We designed a constructing that was created by the strategy of land deformation. The terrain was to transition easily from the north-west aspect into a synthetic ‘hill’ into which the home was to be positioned,” mentioned studio founder Szymon Rozwałka.
Paying homage to a hill, the grass-topped construction incorporates a floor flooring with an fascinating carved kind to accommodate a storage and an entrance sheltered by an overhanging first flooring. A paved path connects the aspect of the home to the backyard. The entrance of the house has a white render end, and a oak batten cladding to offer privateness. Whereas the again finish of the house opens into the backyard by way of fully-glazed facades.
“The house seeks to increase the pure context into the inside of the positioning and into the interiors. It turns into an summary physique that, via its kind and scale, corresponds to the encircling rocks within the background,” mentioned Rozwalka. The primary flooring of the house incorporates a room that expands right into a small terrace, that’s hidden from the encircling properties with the assistance of a concrete wall. A paved patio has been positioned outdoors the residing space, and it faces a small pond.
The roof of the house is an uncovered board-marked concrete ceiling from inside, dotted with massive skylights wherever the curves intersect. Concrete partitions throughout the residence are contrasted with wood ceilings, staircases, black-metal frames, furnishings, and fittings. The household home is a contemporary concrete surprise that additionally manages to superbly incorporate a speck of inexperienced, and add a little bit of nature to an in any other case city dwelling.
