Villa in Brno-Jundrov

The building plot with beautiful views of the Brno skyline is located in a garden colony under the wooded slope of Hobrtenek in the Jundrov district. The plot consists of two adjoining longitudinal parcels with a northern orientation on a pronounced transverse western slope. The southern part of the plot is an access area, planted with greenery and connected to a dead-end access road. The northern part occupies a residential garden with an outdoor pool and a gazebo. The placement and design of the family house are subordinated to the most suitable position for the building and especially to the utilization of the offered views while eliminating the unfavorable northern orientation of the plot. The effort to maximize the use of the widest part of the plot, ensure views, and screen the garden from access led to a solution in the form of a monumental prism positioned at the highest point across the parcel. From the southern side, the house reveals a total of three floors, with a basement that extends into the slope, which is leveled in the northern part into the shape of a residential garden, from which the house appears more like a two-storey building. This position has led to a specific design of the house's floor plan and especially the daylighting system in the interior spaces predominantly oriented towards the northern side facing the garden. This is served by a southern glazed stair tower, a maximally transparent entrance hall, and a generous roof skylight that allows daylight into both the upper floor and through the glass floor further into the living room on the ground floor. In an effort to visually reduce the volume of the building, the house is divided by levels into three horizontal layers connected by the stair tower. The spatial and layout concept of the building is also subordinated to this. The basement with technical facilities is predominantly recessed below the terrain level, the ground floor occupies the entrance and main living spaces connected to the garden, and the upper floor houses the quiet rooms, from which the most interesting views are offered. The material treatment underscores the concept of the building; the ground floor is created as a light base with light plaster and glazed surfaces that help achieve maximum connectivity between the interior and the garden and surroundings, while the upper floor is a clearly defined prism clad in dark gray cement-bonded particle boards. The simplicity of the solution is complemented by aluminum frames, exterior blinds, and also the interior furnishings in neutral white and gray tones. All of this highlights the immediate surroundings of the building with sensitively designed garden modifications that place the house in the context of the natural framework.