Apartment building Procházkova

The Podolská residential development on the northern slope beneath the Kavčí Hory was built in the 1920s and 1930s. Today, it is a loose urban-type development consisting of rental villas and large family houses along traditional streets with street alleys, stabilized. The urban structure consists of solitary residential buildings with modest decorative gardens. The architectural styles of the individual houses are varied. The height of the surrounding buildings ranges from three to five floors.

The realized apartment building is designed as a solitary object, like the surrounding development. The building has four floors with a recessed fifth floor. The height arrangement respects the surrounding residential buildings and meets the requirements for the setbacks of residential structures. The underground level is exclusively used for parking, while the above-ground part is exclusively used for residential purposes. Access is from the one-way Procházkova street.

The layout corresponds to the function of family housing and the typology of a multi-family apartment building. Two apartment units are suspended in the stairwell space on each typical floor, oriented with their living areas towards the sunny western and southern sides. Only on the first floor are there, in addition to one apartment, spaces for building facilities. Each apartment is assigned a large terrace. The sanitary facilities of the apartments are oriented to the center of the layouts. On the last, recessed floor, there is one large apartment with a roof terrace and a view of the surrounding landscape. All floors are connected by a two-flight staircase with an elevator.

The lower structure is made of waterproof concrete without additional coating insulation, known as a white bathtub. The load-bearing walls of the building are ceramic from the POROTHERM system and reinforced concrete. The ceilings in the building are monolithic reinforced concrete. Balconies and shading reinforced concrete canopies protrude from the ceiling slabs. Due to the interruption of the thermal bridge, these elements are anchored using isokorbs. The outer shell is constructed from ceramic thermal insulation blocks Porotherm with a thickness of 400 mm. The surface treatment of the vertical masonry and reinforced concrete structures is completed with a layered contact thermal insulation system. The final surface treatment consists of pigmented stucco exterior plaster and a facing brick strip. The openings are filled with wooden, three-layer lamella meranti. All metalwork on the site is made of pre-weathered titanium-zinc sheet.