Condominium + Condominium / Progres Architekti

Textual content description offered by the architects. We kicked off the Condominium + Condominium Venture when our household managed to purchase a unit adjoining to our personal and we began fascinated about merging the 2. Whereas our Studio labored on varied shopper initiatives, our personal residing area and rising wants had been continuously on my thoughts. I take pleasure in experimenting with myself as a part of my artistic course of. I benefit from the sense of airiness, mild, sharing, little nooks, and crannies contrasting with open vistas, a range of supplies, and many greenery.

The area we ended up creating is amenable to steady transformation, permitting us to adapt the premises to our present wants for so long as we proceed to make use of it. We reside in Libeň, in a functionalist house constructing composed of small tenement items. Conceived by Josef Chochol, Richard Ferdinand Podzemný, and František Míšek, the design gained an structure competitors in 1936. Initially, the constructing was devised as a contemporary, easy, austere, and ethereal construction, economical however nonetheless light-filled. Over time, a few of its unique qualities had been misplaced, however its essence stays.

The structural system is designed as a two-span strengthened concrete body with ribbed ceilings and courtyard balconies. The simplicity of the structural system proved essential for our modifications of the 2 items. Aside from having to account for load-bearing columns and chimney flues, we had been free to regulate the inside structure as we noticed match. Within the historic context during which the constructing was initially designed, the structural resolution introduced itself as an enormous leap ahead. It opened the best way to a constructing system that’s straightforward to transform, rework and alter.

A shell system, a skeleton coated with pores and skin. To begin with, we uncovered the unique constructions and eliminated the brick lining, making a free variable area with well-preserved xylolite flooring, coved ceilings, and unique doorways with brass fittings. We created an area devoid of all layers and uncovered a high-quality core; an area of unrestricted prospects and no obstacles. We solely stored two nook rooms, whose small dimension and site suited our wants.

We divided the brand new house into impartial purposeful areas. As a way to maintain them to a minimal, we located them into two separate wooded bins. The primary one was inserted loosely underneath the primary girder and comprises a kitchen, cupboard space, and a bathroom whereas its place creates an intermediate area with a cloakroom and a utility room. The second field comprises a rest room with a view, a resting area, and a workspace. The core of the inside, subsequently, stays an open area.

The selection of supplies used to construction the inside was clear to me from the very onset. I’m emotionally linked to wooden and might depend on a family-owned joinery store. A lot of the wood components in our new house handed by means of my palms, testing my endurance and perseverance. The usage of wooden allowed us to blur the excellence between partitions and furnishings – the constructions we used are each one and the opposite and put every of the 2 qualities to their greatest use.

I wished the previous contact of the unique house to stay part of my new design. We, subsequently, left it printed on the flooring. The white terrazzo strip instead of the unique constructions reminds us of how the house used to operate. We’re glad to reside right here.