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Cottage under the mountains

Bystrá Nad Jizerou / 2022

The concept of the building is based on traditional elements in the mountain landscape. The house has one floor and a residential attic with a roof overhang. The roof overhang traditionally serves as a cover for the corridors around the house, including both entrances to the shed. Within the large glazed areas, it also serves as shading on summer days. The slate roof covering turned diagonally is used due to winter climatic conditions also on the front facades of the 2nd floor. An important detail here is the installation of rhomboid square windows, the expression of which does not disturb the traditional appearance of the roof without roof windows.

The house is entered under the roof overhang in its northeastern part. First, one walks through the vestibule and then the entrance hall of the house. The house has a main social space on the ground floor, which is connected to the study, hallway and bathroom with sauna. The kitchen is already part of the living room, both by the location of the main appliances and the central dominant of the interior - the tiled stove. It visually divides the space into a useful and residential part. On one side, the stove can be used to heat food, and on the other, at the same time, for lounging.

Next to the stove is the entrance arm of the staircase to the first floor. This is the functional background of the lower free floor plan. There are three bedrooms with a utility room, a dressing room, a bathroom and a toilet with a shower. Opposite the exit arm of the staircase is the free space of the reading room, and the largest of the bedrooms is connected to the uninsulated space above the shed - a summer sleeping bag/playroom/attic.

The shed is a "separate" part, freely continuing in the mass of the main building. On the first floor, it uses the truss of the extended roof and serves as storage for the needs of the house, garden and sports. On the ground floor of the shed, it is considered to both leave the slope of the terrain and install independent platforms accessible from the opposite gate.

The surroundings of the house are on a gentle slope, and therefore the southern terrace towards the valley is supplemented with residential stairs. A tree embedded in the terrace serves as a screen for the southern front facade.

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