Architecture studio Atelier SAD and interior designer Iveta Zachariá?ová have created a cork-clad family home in the Czech Republic, which was embedded into a grassy ridge.
Atelier SAD and Zachariá?ová chose to clad the rural house in cork due to its thermal and weather-resistant properties, which it benefits from in its exposed setting.
The house is set against a steep ridge
The house is orientated along a contour line at the foot of the Je?t?d Ridge, overlooking the Bohemian Paradise Protected Landscape Area.
"The landscape is open, dominated by flowering, unfenced meadows," said the designers. "The view and the integration of the interior spaces into the landscape was one of the main motifs driving the house design process." The front door is accessed by steps down the embankment
The house is partially set into a grassy embankment, which is topped by a road that allows part of the roof to act as a parking space. It was surrounded by an irregular cluster of vernacular pink granite stones.
"The slender mass of the house cuts diagonally into the steep slope of the road, and the ridge seems to slope down into the garden," the designers added.
The house is nestled between the ridge and the open landscape
The remainder of the roof is made from pitched aluminium sheets and features a gable that projects out at one end to create a covered terrace overlooking the unfenced garden.
Areas of the facade which are not glazed are clad in Portuguese ex...