A client with a long term interest in architecture was impressed by one of our buildings in his vicinity and acquired a plot of slightly sloping land within a new housing development of individually-designed properties, on the periphery of Nový Jičín. His aim was to achieve a family home, with a large garage-cum-workshop, built along clean and simple lines, with a generous internal space which would afford the family adequate privacy and could be largely self-built.

To ensure the desired privacy and seclusion, we placed the building against a cut-out in the sloping terrain. With the living areas on the ground floor, the street-level upper storey contains the garage and workshop. The bearing structures are partly reinforced concrete and partly ceramic tile. The client wished to have the raw finish of the concrete structures maximally exposed. For that reason, the peripheral wall is composed of layer of thermal insulation sandwiched between two layers of concrete. The segmented supporting structures beneath the cantilever upper floor are also in reinforced concrete with an external shower at the centre. The garage/workshop is a prefabricated steel structure sheathed in a layer of thermally insulated metal. The floors are finished in cement and epoxy screeds.