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Architects: benkobenkova
- Area: 130 m²
- Year: 2021
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Photographs:Matej Hakár
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Manufacturers: Ikea, maxdetail
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Lead Architects: Jana Benková, Juraj Benko, Marián Gombarček
Text description provided by the architects. My journey with this assignment didn’t start in the usual way, although perhaps, looking back, it should go like this every time. A friend of mine, whom I met at the book club, called me saying he wanted to buy a house. We did the viewing together. It took us two and a half hours by train to get there. The friend's choice was driven by a reasonable commute by public transport but was also looking for a quiet place. First, I was not convinced - to start with, it wasn’t in the mountains as one would expect but in our Slovakian lowland. However - once there I immediately fell in love with this place and so did he. Simple structure, a classic cube with an extension into the garden. The building was in the "original state" as the real estate agent would say but had tons of character.
