Barn in Krňany

I asked David Kubík to write about the project in Krňany that he was working on.

I have been working in Martin Rajniš's studio for more than a year. He was my opponent for my diploma thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts. I did not personally know Professor Rajniš. Martin, as he introduced himself right at the beginning, is a very straightforward person. Everyone addresses him informally, and he offered me to work with him for some time. He said I should come to his office the next morning. What was I supposed to say to that? The planned vacation did not take place.
The first independent task was the Barn in Krňany. The third building based on the principle of “horizontal play” - a system derived from wood storage. Previous implementations built on this principle, such as the Barn and Tower in the Jizera Mountains, have already been published by archiweb.
The structural solution of the barn is almost identical to the one in Maxov. Elements have been added to brace the trusses supporting the floor grid. The goal was to stabilize the trusses and prevent their rotation. The fact that the barn is very long required short reinforcing transverse walls. In the construction of the roof frame, we, I hope, arrived at a certain simplification. The ties repeat quite densely to prevent the boards on the roof from sagging.
How did we come to this commission? Martin's friend ordered a study from us for a family house in the valley under the small village of Krňany. He calls this place Na sadu and in the middle of it, nestled in the grass and surrounding greenery, there was to be an all-wood house complemented by glass and stone. The project was named Kolouch and Martin and I fell in love with it.
The municipal office in Krňany stopped the project. A decision typical of today's days: "This building is contrary to the municipality's zoning plan". In the end, only the barn was built from the entire project, and in the wetland under the slope, the investor built a small pond that Kolouch was originally supposed to look at.