Czech studio RDTH Architekti has remodeled an outdated mill and farm in Slovakia right into a household house, introducing a collection of timber buildings that reference its former sheds and hen coops.
Aptly named New Home with Previous Mill, the house sits alongside a small stream in Trenčín on a web site occupied by the previous mill and several other agricultural buildings.
Whereas RDTH Architekti has restored and prolonged the masonry mill, lots of the farm buildings couldn’t be retained and have been changed with cross-laminated timber (CLT) buildings that draw on their former appearances.
“We created an idea with sure a volumetric and materials nostalgia of the given web site and authentic constructing,” RDTH co-founder René Dlesk instructed Dezeen.
“We wished to someway rework it with a extra modern, formal vocabulary, but nonetheless comprehensible by these which might be extra conversant in the outdated language.”
Organised in a V-shape, the plan of the house creates a central backyard, flanked by the outdated mill to the south and a brand new timber construction housing residing areas to the north.
The mill has been transformed into an space for giant gatherings, with its current masonry construction restored and uncovered. New additions, similar to a CLT roof and stair, are left uncovered to supply a recent distinction.
“Within the authentic mill, it was about preserving the character of the unique,” stated Dlesk.
“Subsequently outdated building like oak trusses, thick peripheral partitions in addition to fragments of the initially used applied sciences or the mill are nonetheless very current, simply extra uncovered,” added Dlesk.
“All new interventions in addition to outdated imperfections are clearly seen right here.”
To the east, the mill abuts an extended, lined parking and space for storing, following the type of a demolished construction on the positioning.
Completed with massive sliding doorways in slatted wooden, this construction is meant to be simply adaptable ought to the shoppers need to change its use sooner or later.
“One of many authentic buildings didn’t swimsuit the brand new use in any respect, however its authentic form was so necessary for the general character of the place that we changed it with a brand new constructing in precisely the identical form and quantity,” defined Dlesk
“It grew to become a hollowed, empty area lined by a gable roof. It’s an empty, cathedral-like area, simply pure construction – a hybrid of recent picket and metal constructions together with very basic carpentry,” he added.
The house itself is organised throughout a two-storey timber quantity topped by a zigzagging roof and clad in slender picket planks.
Sliding glass doorways within the floor flooring residing, eating and kitchen area open onto the central courtyard, trying in direction of the outdated mill from a wood-decked terrace.
Inside, a minimal end of white partitions and pale picket ceilings focuses consideration on the views out from the house, guaranteeing that the courtyard and outdated mill “are at all times there as a part of the inside ornament,” stated Dlesk.
Different tasks just lately accomplished in Slovakia embrace a trapezoidal concrete house overlooking a forest by Ksa Studený and a cultural centre in a former heating plant.
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