Corrugated plastic cladding reveals the timber structure of this house by Czech architects Mat?j Petránek and Adam Jirkal, which replaces a family holiday home near Prague (+ slideshow).

Petránek and Jirkal were approached by a client who wanted to transform his small childhood holiday home into a full-time residence, relocating his family from nearby Prague.
They replaced the old wooden hut and constructed a new wooden house named House in Davle on top of the old brick foundations.

The new building has a hefty wooden structure with 12 load-bearing columns and timber board walls. Some of these boards are painted red, while others are left uncoloured.

Sheets of corrugated plastic protect the wooden structure from the rain, but their transparency ensures the woodwork is still on show. "It's a cheap material, it protects the wooden parts of the construction against water and wind," the architects told Dezeen.

"It's also a link to a part of Czech history, to the way of Czech people  ? tramps and campers used to build small and cheap summer houses next to rivers during the 20th century in Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic," they said.

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"These huts were usually made from wood and other cheap materials, which were available during the Communism period between 1950 and 1980. The results were usually very colourful and playful."

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