Architektonické Štúdio Atrium, s.r.o.

Mill Humenné

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

MILL HUMENNÉ

Atrium Architekti

ARCHITECTS
Atrium Architekti

LOCATION
066 01 Humenné, Slovakia

CATEGORY
Apartments

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Michal Burák

MANUFACTURERS
Rheinzink, Atlas Schindler, Glassglobal

PROJECT YEAR
2017

PHOTOGRAPHS
Martin Pitoňák

AREA
1062.0 m2

OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Dušan Burák, Matúš Gomolčák, Marek Ganz, Marek Bakalár, Marek Dubiel, Tomáš Eisner

Text description provided by architect.

The dilapidated object of the old non-functional mill was given a new face, according to a project from Atrium Architekti studio.

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

A new feature comes with her hand. The building was awarded the National Architecture Prize - the Dušan Jurkovič Prize 2017.

Logically, the flats have supplemented the existing structure of solitary family houses and the medium-high ossampler building of residential buildings near the nearby elementary school.

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

The street line, as well as the distance to the neighbouring land, are given by the existing buildings. Local service communications from the north side lead the site.

The terrain of the building site is considered south by a slight decline. An object with a rectangular plan is located in its northern part.

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

On the ground floor, there will be two apartments with access to private gardens separated from the surrounding green hedge.

Among the apartments, there is a boiler room and common areas with cellars. On the second and third floors, there are three apartments.

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

On the fourth floor are three maisonette apartments, the upper, 5th floor of which has two outbuildings on the open terrace. 

The roof is designed as a tin-zinc titanium with slots on open terraces.  It is to be said that anything in the place of a broken-down building would be better. 

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

New apartments, however, have the potential to truly and truly revive the building.

To the investor's point of view, he also did not use the popular formula: the old burst and rebuild and modern.

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
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Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

Architects did not miss the original volume and interior layout. They do not try to completely overlap it and rework it; their intervention, however, involves the former mill in the new facade and represents a new arrangement of holes, but there is still a hint that it is not a new building.

The interventions can be compared to a clean and uncompromising cut that will allow rapid and effective treatment.

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

Simple windows and tent roof in the slope that refers to the original shape of the roof are reminiscent of the original fill of the object.

The design works with titanium zinc roofing. Sure, it is not the cheapest idea, but any other material would taste refined reconstruction either from a functionally functional point of view (in the case of titanium substitution for a cheaper coloured sheet) or aesthetic (any other cover).

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

Balconies in the form of sloping drawers and the old-fashioned element of the gallery give the project a joke and smut.

The use of hook could be considered as another reference to the production past. However, the shape of the pavlax itself and the vertical communications, which are without barriers admitted to the exterior as a new element added, are purely contemporary, almost timeless.

Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák

The playfulness and ease of input reveal even the inevitable accentuation of the input by pulling one panel out of the treble, replacing it with a transparent glass railing.

On a monochromatic palette with white plaster and grey metallic elements, the agate wood on the extended balconies and outdoor applications and interiors blended.

Mill Humenné
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Mill Humenné
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Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák
Mill Humenné
© Martin Pitoňák


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