34 PROJECT REPORT: LUXURY HOMES
The designers used the gradient to enable a potentially multi-
generational arrangement with a guest section dug into the hill, and a main living area above
hrough close collaboration, a project to design a ‘porous’ private residence overlooking the Zlín Valley in the south west of the Czech Republic evolved from a basic brief of a family living space, to being an “open part of its context,” with its interior volumes continuing into the garden, and the surrounding urban area. Developed between 2006 and 2020, the steeply sloping 1400 m2
T plot offered both
challenges and opportunities. The team utilised the gradient to enable a potentially multi-generational arrangement with a guest section dug into the hill, and a main living area above.
While visually contrasted with the local vernacular, Lazy House’s Prague-based architects petrjanda/brainwork utilised principles of aircraft camouflage to blend the project into the landscape. The design maintains privacy due to its unconventional layout, which rotates the square floorplan to avoid sensitive rooms facing towards the valley, while retaining daylighting, and using strategic planting. During the scheme design, the practice worked on all design aspects of the property, from bespoke detailing
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throughout to the “carefully curated” exterior, which includes a pool and wine cellar. According to practice owner and MD Petr Janda, this fine tuning led to a “comprehensive partnership,” and the creation of an “authentic design.”
The ‘Lazy’ plot
The practice was first approached by the original investor, with whom Janda has had a “long-term, friendly relationship,” he tells ADF.
Later in the process, the plot changed
hands, but this new client reportedly proved just as collaborative, allowing “the completion of the house in a form that further developed the original concept in many layers.”
The site itself is part of a new urban district of Zlín, created by the conversion of former allotment gardens into residential development, with the land divided into six plots, and connected to the existing urban infrastructure by a new road. Lazy House’s plot resides on the highest part of this district, underneath the nearby forest. The house’s inverse orientation offers an “excellent view, year-round,” according
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