Stempel Tesař Architekti, s.r.o.

Family Houses in Popovicky

Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec

FAMILY HOUSES IN POPOVICKY

Jan Stempel

ARCHITECTS
Jan Stempel

LOCATION
Popovicky, Czech Republic

CATEGORY
Houses

AREA
150.0 m²

YEAR
2010

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ivan Nemec

Text description provided by architect.

New family houses for different private clients are situated in a small village close to Prague. This location is very popular with young families with children.

Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec
Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec

The parents work in Prague, but live in the country in a family house with a garden. This strong trend in the Czech Republic represents mainly standardized houses from catalogues.

Those two presented houses – designed as an archetypal form of a house in central Europe – stand out of this mass production.

Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec
Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec

The reasonably used layouts are comfortable. The main living room is joined with the kitchen and the dining room. This gives an impression of a generous space.

The first house is made of concrete blocks with insulation and wooden cladding.

Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec
Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec
Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec

The cable roof is covered with concrete black tiles. The house is opened to the southern garden.

The garden was precisely designed and it is an inseparable part of the house.

The owners started to be worried about their view because the neighbouring site was not built-up yet. They decided to recommend the architect and the site to their friends.

Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec
Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec
Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec

The second house is made of ceramic blocks with insulation and an added brick wall.

The gable slate roof corresponds to the first house by the shape and colour.

The focus of the design is a vista in the direction of the cross axis. This principle is inspired by passable barns.

Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec
Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec

There are situated two tables in this axis. The first – internal one is placed in double story open space.

The second table consists on the external embedded terrace.

Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec
Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec

The living room is next to these spaces in an intimate part of the house.

The clients finally joined their gardens together. The houses appeal as a composition of two simple houses in a common large garden.

Family Houses in Popovicky
© Ivan Nemec


Family Houses in Popovicky
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Family Houses in Popovicky
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Family Houses in Popovicky
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Stempel Tesař Architekti, s.r.o.
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Stempel Tesař Architekti, s.r.o.
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