ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/771009/house-unter-the-castle-modulora Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:00:00 +0000 Daniel Sánchez https://www.archdaily.com/771009/house-unter-the-castle-modulora The elevation in Most on which Hněvín castle stands forms the dominant landmark of this northern Bohemian city. The southern slope is covered with vineyards, and the northern slope with allotment gardens. The latter has been undergoing a gradual transformation away from recreational use by cottage gardeners, towards the year-round inhabitation of individual residential properties. The land plot in question, which is located in the upper half of the northern slope, has several peculiar aspects that had to be dealt with: a conical, irregular shape; undersized access via a local one-way road; a significant downhill gradient - but also, and in spite of all this, a gorgeous view across the ČSA strip mine of the Ore Mountains, a massif crowned with wind turbines. This particular spot, as well as the city at large, are full of contrasts. A landscape violated by the declining coal strip mining industry is juxtaposed against the primeval vista of the massif that is the Ore Mountains.

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