Vila Lipno - Frýdava

Urbanistic, architectural, and construction-technical solution — The building plot is located in the cadastral area of Frýdava. The plot is undeveloped, significantly sloped, and has a northeast orientation of the slope, which is disadvantageous for the positioning of residential rooms. According to the zoning plan, it is designated for individual development. The foundation of a building in such a challenging terrain is demanding. The neighboring plots are currently undeveloped; they consist of natural greenery, including tall conifers and wild deciduous trees.

The investor's building plot is one of several plots on the right bank of the Lipno Lake near the main right-bank road to the village of Frýdava. The series of plots is defined by this road and the water surface of Lipno Lake. The shoreline here is slightly variable, as the shore exhibits considerable steepness towards the water level. It can be assumed that the challenging plots, with areas between 2,000 and 3,000 square meters, will be built upon with individual family homes and villas featuring a higher spatial and area standard that meets the demanding individual requirements of their users. Given the size of the plots, the development will therefore be free with an uninterrupted natural character of the shoreline extending all the way to Frýdava itself. It can also be expected that there will be a confrontation of various architectural approaches. A common theme will necessarily be the orientation of the houses down the slope towards the lake's surface. The massing of our proposed building is not prominently visible from the road. Only the horizontal line of the upper residential floor of the house is visible. The entire building is oriented towards the water surface and the southern, sunlit part of the plot.

The object seeks to find an answer to very difficult building conditions. The main and natural orientation of the sloped plot is northeast, towards the water level, while the only amenity space that is sunlit is located at the upper part to the southwest of the plot. These conflicting conditions, along with the steep drop of the entire plot, have led us to an unconventional conceptual solution. We divided the whole body of the house into two masses. The lower – plinth and the upper glass lightweight block. The reinforced concrete block has a minimum floor area, reducing the extent of the foundation in the slope. The plinth is oriented against the slope so that the southern facade opens up. The plinth is somewhat of a continuation of the rock, exposed in a material-related monolithic mass – concrete. Its inner space is divided by concrete cubes for bathrooms, staircases, and service areas that evoke boulders on the rock. Between them, a free usable space is created. The upper light block is placed on the edge of the plinth as far out towards the water surface as possible. Its top surface serves as a walkable terrace and as access to the house. It is conceived as an open glass mass, which is situated in the midst of the crowns of mature trees, forming its natural screening. It incorporates the main daytime living space of the house, open to views of the water and towards the entrance terrace. The glass block is symmetrically cantilevered by 7.8 meters on both sides of the plinth. From the main access road, only this part of the house is visible. From the street, it will be visually shielded by mature greenery and partially also by an artificial embankment between the boundary of the plot and the road.

Technical solution — The construction technical solution of the object is also divided into two parts:
First part 1st floor, whose load-bearing part is composed of a light steel structure made of truss beams, composed of steel tubes and main HEB beams. The steel truss structure is exposed at the glass facades; the cladding is only on the two side gable walls made of interior drywall construction and exterior compact boards. The gable cladded walls have a ventilated air gap and thermal insulation. The facade consists of a lightweight shell made of compact FunderMax panels with a thickness of 15 mm.
Second part of the object consists of a structure of two underground floors, which is designed as a layered sandwich construction made of visible concrete. The outer structure consists of a reinforced concrete wall of visible concrete 200 mm thick, thermal insulation of 150 mm, and exterior wall of visible concrete 200 mm.
The construction project also includes the installation of a wooden dock 6 x 2 meters on the shore of the reservoir beneath the body of the house's plinth. The wooden dock will be securely anchored on one side to the shore, while the other side will rest on floating plastic pontoons. The dock will serve for summer stays by the water or potentially for mooring a small boat.

The proposed central heating is realized using a heat pump. It utilizes two boreholes as sources of energy. Heating is primarily carried out through underfloor heating.
The bedrooms on the 1st floor are prepared for the potential installation of cooling units.