Weekend house - barn

Osoblaha region in Northern Moravia, the poorest area of the Czech Republic connected to the outside world by the umbilical cord of a narrow-gauge railway. A land forgotten by Bohemia, filled with farm buildings and barns. And it is precisely on the principles and semantic meanings of this type of vernacular architecture that the concept of a weekend house - a barn - is built.
Stone pillars, behind which the facilities of the house are located, define open living spaces. The living spaces open vertically to the exposed truss and horizontally connect both sides of the exterior when the wooden sliding "gates" are pushed aside. The landscape thus freely flows through the house… Movement through the house in the longitudinal direction is rhythmically interspersed with vertical lit spaces and indirectly illuminated low utility areas. Compression and decompression…
Natural materials are used in the constructions, both in the exterior and interior. Baked clay, stone, wood with exposed metal anchoring elements.
The house is built of porotherm, with a wooden ceiling and truss. The roof covering is slate laid on PUR panels.

Award from Wienerberg brick industry a.s. – POROTHERM HOUSE 2009
Nomination of the Academy of Architecture for participation in GRAND PRIX ARCHITECTS 2009
Building of the Moravian-Silesian Region 2008 – jury award for having other special value