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Architects: deyl-sestak-architects
- Area: 490 m²
- Year: 2011
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Photographs:Filip Šlapal
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Text description provided by the architects. The basic idea is a kind of enclosure of the building in and on itself, and the use of the sloping ground to divide the building into a two-storey main residential part on the upper part of the land and a lower building containing the garages and entrance hall further down the slope.
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The result is essentially a two-storey house with a flat roof, positioned atop the concrete “retaining wall” of the lower structure. The house’s plan is of “U”-shape, or equally it could be described as a rectangle with an interior atrium open on one side to the surrounding landscape. Inside the atrium is a small pool, which ensures for this space pleasant cooling, reinforced by the system of louvered blinds against the sun.
![Villa Řitka / deyl-sestak-architects - Chair, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/50e5/9591/b3fc/4b32/7e00/00cf/newsletter/Photo_11.jpg?1413927060)
The flat roof is weighted down with tiles, forming a kind of terrace landscaping retaining surfaces of flower-boxes filled with vegetation. As a result, the structure appears – even seen from above on the access road – as an organic compact whole of pleasing appearance. In this way, the roof becomes itself a fifth facade.
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