Senior Citizens' Home in Nový Bydžov / Architektura

Valeria Silva — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The client's brief was to design a new retirement home on the site of a former orchard adjacent to a hospital. The building is conceived as four independently functioning households for approximately 60 residents, fully barrier-free. An orchard and brick walls near a cemetery with a church, a historic town with a beautiful town hall. Tall trees. And then old age as a phenomenon—calm, silence, brick as the archetype of home. The proximity of the hospital and cemetery may invite bitter associations; here, however, we see quality, an image of quiet and contemplation, an image of the peaceful edge of town. A chateau-like, symmetrical, almost classicist layout brings atriums, gardens, views, and abundant daylight into the Home. Old age is one of today's European themes. How do we approach ageing? What do we do for older people, how do we perceive them, what do we offer them, and what do we ask of them? What is it like to be an elderly person in the Czech Republic in 2026?

Jevany Villa / Architektura

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0000

A spruce forest, a slope, views of giant tree trunks, a pit left after an old building, birds, deer, and flickering sun rays. Below, the surface of a lake. The access road lies at the upper edge of the plot. From the street, the house appears single-story — invisible and small; from the garden, it becomes two-story — open and large. Cars park on the roof. The massing of the house follows the slope of the terrain and the client's spatial requirements. The central staircase space (the "torso") connects the western and eastern wings — the day and night zone. The main concept is a visual axis and descent into the forest landscape. Green and red are complementary colors. The house — an organism — becomes part of the forest.

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Senior Citizens' Home in Nový Bydžov / Architektura

Jevany Villa / Architektura