Family House Klokočná

The design is based on the following assumptions and requirements:

• traditional, rural type of house
• main living space at the ground floor level
• attic only for partial (future) use
• achieving the effect of “traditional” microclimate in the house interior

An important decision for the concept of the house is the division of the building into two parts – the main building and a “barn”, which are loosely connected by a fully glazed link and together with a retaining wall create an internal courtyard. The retaining wall logically arises as a result of leveling the terrain to a flat surface from the entry level and is complemented by a staircase leading to the upper part of the garden. The courtyard consists of a grassy area, a wooden terrace, and paved walkways along the perimeter walls.
The inspiration for the basic shape of the new building is rather an agricultural type of a historic building (barn), which offers some proportions to be translated into contemporary differing needs (e.g., requirements for larger windows and a greater number of living rooms with demands for good daylight and the possibility of direct access to the property).
It is about maintaining a simple basic traditional shape, whose proportions and certain natural beauty have been verified by centuries of repeated evolutionary cultivation.
This inspiration is, apart from the basic shape, transformed into windows, shutters, and doors designed from the floor (terrain) up to the eaves, which interrupt the continuous surface of the walls without visible lintels and thus calm (simplify) the façade.