Dostavba and reconstruction Řeporyjská

The design of the modifications and extensions is based on the investor's intention to transform the originally residential building (two apartment units and an attic) into the headquarters of a company - a recruitment agency. This transformation is a natural continuation of the established trend, considering the gradual change of the area into a location with administrative buildings and services. Additionally, given the existing traffic load in the area and the planned new linear constructions of the Prague inner ring road, this transformation is desirable, as the area has gradually lost its original quality for individual urban living.
However, because we consider it desirable to preserve the existing character of the site, we proposed a reconstruction and extension of the existing house instead of demolition, which will utilize the potential of the existing building and maintain the original scale of the constructions in its surroundings.
The building is "cleansed" of additional appendages, and in their place, a uniform form of extension is designed, divided into three blocks, the mass of which stems from the new internal arrangement of the layout in the house. The extension is oriented towards the garden and is essentially not prominent from the street view from Řeporyjská. It is designed as contemporary architecture, and the addition is clearly expressively separated from the original building. One reason for this is, among other things, the fact that the existing building is a closed compositional whole in itself, and a formal connection of the extended parts with its mass would scale and proportionally damage the design. The floor plan solution, in turn, respects the edges of the perimeter of the existing house.
The facades of the original object are designed with regard to the changed internal arrangement, with new window openings being introduced. The street facade facing Řeporyjská is recomposed with an emphasis on the entrance and supplemented with a larger dormer in the existing gabled roof. This form of the building grants sufficient and appropriate individualization necessary for the newly considered purpose of the use of the construction.
The spatial solution is proposed as completely new concerning the planned use, while respecting the spatial and structural framework of the house. The interior is also addressed individually - "tailored" as an integral part of the task.