A prototype of a family house is built in a former granite quarry in Posázaví.

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Architects: a69 Architekti

Location: Czech Republic

Architect In Charge: Boris Red?enkov, Prokop Tomá?ek, Jaroslav Wertig

Design Team: Michal Nohejl

Area: 235.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Tomá? Rasl

Main Contractor: DIY

Technical Design: OMEGA project s.r.o.

Construction: Radek Brandejs

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From the architect. A prototype of a family house is built in a former granite quarry in Posázaví.The purpose of this built project is to check structural, typological, and user qualities of the prototype. 
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The house is located on the edge of a rock above a lake. The project preserves grown trees, emphasizes the view to the water, and allows access to the meadow in the middle of a forest.

Sketch

A simple cubic mass 15x15x4 m contains interior spaces formed in a more complex manner.

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Organically moulded labyrinth of the interior habitable space allows more day- and sunlight, vistas out and through from the depth of the layout.

Ground Floor Plan

The house hovers over the landscape, it is not founded traditionally. A steel load-distributing modular raft i...