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to its architect, with sightlines both to the woodlands and Zlín’s residential area, sitting below the site. The site’s topology is analogous to that of Mediterranean villas or the hills of Los Angeles, however according to Janda, the distinctiveness of this location was a strong inspiration. The practice intended Lazy House to encompass the “essential archetype of a house that benefits from the uniqueness of its location.”
Approach
Entering the plot from a gate at the front of the property, visitors are first presented with a paved driveway, above which is the house’s glazed front facade.
The architects describe the form as a “compact solitaire on a square floor plan, with a slightly rotated layout.” The exterior follows the “contour logic”of its surroundings, while the interior “turns towards the long sightlines towards the city centre and beyond.”
Appearing as a single storey house from
the rear, the lower floor of the house is sunk into the hillside, the wall with the garage door being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the site. The first floor above this is prism-shaped, and is cantilevered above the house’s frontage. The main ‘first floor’ living floor is visually connected to the sky through its mirrored moiré facades, and appears to ‘levitate’ on its corten base, set into the slope. The metal exterior is then balanced with the soft timber-lined interior visible through the envelope, with colourful accents of cast light that blend together during the evening. The house is covered with a green roof, which Janda says “returns the missing part of the garden cut off by the house’s footprint,” and also offers a fully glazed roof studio in its centre. From above, the green roof “merges with the garden city,” leaving the plot appearing almost untouched – in a move inspired by aviation facility design.
Internal layout Visitors enter through the ground floor two-car garage on either side. From there, there is dedicated access to the main living floor and a separate entrance to the guest apartment that can be used for visiting grandparents, teenagers or others. Entering the guest apartment, the space is designed as an open layout, centred on the social part, with a kitchen, dining and living room attached to a bedroom with its own walk-in-wardrobe, bathroom and toilet. The apartment also has its own terrace,
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with a separate garden.
Heading back into the garage, and moving up towards the main living area, a single flight staircase ascends to a view of the garden, and into the central social zone. This is a communal space with a kitchen, dining room and living room, running across a large part of the house’s footprint. Based around this zone are the ‘quiet’
areas, all accessible from the central hub, with the parts for parents and children separated. These quiet rooms are in corner positions around the perimeter of the layout so that they all benefit from either the view of the city or from contact with the garden. One such quiet area is the ‘parents’ zone,’ which consists of a bedroom connected by a walk-in wardrobe and a ‘secret’ door to its own bathroom. The children’s zone on the other hand has two bedrooms with a bathroom and toilet between them. There is also a glazed study with bookshelves, a terrace with an indoor garden, and a pantry integrated into the kitchen.
Materiality
The building has a monolithic, reinforced concrete structure with high-performance
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