Based on specifications by the Janoviak family, we gradually prepared three separate design proposals, in three different locations. Finally, the third study was accepted and subsequently built. The site, with views of Lysá hora mountain, and featuring a beautiful willow tree, influenced the low, single-storey building.

The property consists of two separate buildings – a residential wing plus utilities, and a ‘wellness’ part – linked by a covered walkway and unified by a roof. The living quarters comprise two rectangular, misaligned rooms, connected by a central corridor that also forms the backbone of the building. Glass walls partly set back into the interior create a pleasant, sheltered gallery alongside all of the residential rooms.

The key feature of the internal layout is a central corridor, with natural light from a flat skylight, interconnecting the entire house, from the front door to the wellness area. Other rooms branch off of the corridor: lobby leads into the utility area, garage and store rooms, the children’s rooms, guest rooms and a study, the children’s bathrooms, the master bedroom with en suite bathroom and a dressing room. The corridor opens out into a spacious, open-plan living room incorporating the kitchen-cum-dining area. A covered terrace links the main building with the wellness wing and sauna.

All rooms, including the wellness, open out through glass panelled walls onto the garden, with views of the mountains and in summer give an easy access to the garden.