A curved roof tops Byró Architekti’s Cabin Above the City, a purple timber-clad cabin knowledgeable by the encompassing Czech hills.
Located on the border between the town and the countryside, the cabin is nestled into the aspect of Svatobor Hill, a forested web site within the foothills of the Czech Republic’s Šumava mountains.
Taking inspiration from the native panorama, Prague studio Byró Architekti designed the house to have a sweeping type following the curves of the encompassing panorama.
“Due to the curved roof, when considered from the backyard or from a distance, the curve of the home follows the horizon of the panorama and symbolically closes the row of surrounding cottages,” studio co-founder Jan Holub informed Dezeen.
Crimson-painted timber battens line the partitions of the house, extending past both aspect of the path-facing facade to type fences that supply further privateness.
Past one aspect of the house, a gate hidden inside the fence results in the principle entrance, whereas a courtyard is hid by the fence on the opposite aspect of the constructing.
“The precept of the house-fence is strengthened by the constant use of purple color, impressed by the inspiration purple color that seems on most fences and cottages within the space,” Holub defined.
The battens of the fence turn out to be extra spaced out as they get additional away from the cabin, providing views of the encompassing nature whereas sustaining a degree of privateness.
“The battens step by step turn out to be sparser, leaving a visible connection between the courtyard and the encompassing timber, whereas additionally offering privateness from passers-by, as they type a non-transparent wall at an angle,” mentioned Holub.
Designed for one resident, the house options an open-plan kitchen, dwelling, and sleeping house together with a visitor bed room that’s suspended over the principle degree of the house.
The studio aimed to maintain the inside as open as potential, with the lavatory being the one house closed off to the remainder of the house. The partitions of the lavatory present further privateness for the sleeping house, which sits behind it within the nook of the house.
A sloping ceiling lined in plywood panels provides heat to the inside, reaching its highest level above the mezzanine-level visitor bed room accessed by a ladder.
All through the inside, Byró Architekti made use of low-cost furnishings together with laminate storage models, bespoke furnishings, and cabinets with handmade plywood doorways, to maintain development prices to a minimal.
“The home was constructed primarily from the most cost effective supplies obtainable,” mentioned Holub. “The inside is principally furnished with custom-made furnishings, which helps to effectively prepare the modest house and supplies ample cupboard space.”
“The facade of the home is made up of randomly laid and oriented unplaned roof battens, the ground is made up of easy concrete, and the home windows are plastic,” Holub continued.
Constructed inside a interval of three months, the house was constructed nearly solely by the studio itself.
“This small home supplied us a singular expertise,” mentioned the studio. “Along with the entire venture design we – the architects – additionally participated in its development, which we carried out nearly solely on our personal between two folks.”
“The venture thus turned an experiment for us in each means, and we predict the venture proves that it’s potential to realize one thing distinctive regardless of an absence of cash.”
Different Czech homes lately featured on Dezeen embody a contemporary extension of a Twenties villa in Prague and a curved timber-framed house in a Czech forest.
The images is by Ondřej Bouška.
