Insulation and color solution of the facade of the family house Opava

First Republic villa from the 1920s with an extension of a workshop from the same period. Functionalism burdened by the mentality of the traditionalism of the German Sudeten. The house is vertically divided by individual floors without optical connection, finished with a sunny terrace. The layout is a double wing with a central wall. Living rooms are oriented to the south, while to the north, there is the structure of a spiral staircase and service areas.
In the post-war history, the roof terrace was stripped of the fragility of beams and columns with an extension, and the house was covered with briquette plaster. In the post-communist era, the windows were replaced with plastic ones in the existing openings.
The house was almost certainly a single color at the time of completion. Even so, insulation could be approached, allowing the original tectonics to remain impactful. Original tectonics? Utilitarianly placed windows? "Less is bore!"
A plastic two-colored shell. De Stijl cubes. A new composition independent of content… and here in our peripheral north, it is nothing less than extraordinary courage from investors.

Main Prize Facade Moravian-Silesian Region 2007 in the category of family houses