Lazy House // petrjanda/brainwork – Architizer Journal

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IdeaThe concept of the home goes past its bodily kind and is constructed from the within out on the precept of spatial reference to the atmosphere from which it grows and which it overlooks. The idea is predicated on the connection between the home and the town, the home and the backyard, and the backyard and the town.

The connection scheme is repeated inside the home. The inside communal half flowing via the complete home continues to the outside and all of the separate non-public elements have their very own extroverted relationships. The visible look of the home is outlined by its inside nature and the permeability of its bodily physique‘s (non) separation of the inside from the outside.

Privateness is maintained by facade membranes that enable the utmost view from the within out, however reduces it from the skin in. To set it within the context of the backyard and the town, the home makes use of materials mimicry.ContextThe home is seemingly located exterior the context of Baťa’s urbanism and its constructional and visible ideas.

Nevertheless, the notion of Zlín is ubiquitous and defines the occasion horizon of the complete architectural idea via mutual visible contact. The location is a part of a brand new city space created by the conversion of the previous allotment gardens, divided into six constructing websites and related to the prevailing city construction by a brand new street.

The locality is related to the Lazy residential district within the highest half on the slope, underneath the forest and above the Zlín valley. The location’s particular function is its inverse orientation, with the view of the valley in direction of the north, and the southern a part of the positioning affected by the slope and forest rising above the home.

It provides a wonderful view of the year-round sunlit valley. The home overlooks a big space of Zlín with typical inexperienced residential quarters, with household properties and the valley surrounded by the hills within the background.
The typological reference buildings the challenge emotionally attracts on are the distinctive solitary villas located in environments that supply distinctive views, akin to “villa on a cliff” or “residence above the town”.

It’s the important archetype of a home that advantages from the distinctiveness of its location. Within the topographic situations of Zlín, the view from the home is analogous to the view of Mediterranean villas or Los Angeles residences.Architectural designThe home is designed as a compact solitaire on a sq. ground plan, with a barely rotated structure, the place the outside follows the contour logic of the encompassing homes, whereas the inside turns in direction of the valley.

The home consists of a decrease ground base sunk into the slope and the prism of the primary residing ground connected to it. This makes it appear to be a single storey home from the south. The decrease ground base is sunk into the bottom and its wall with the storage entrance is rotated in a path perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the positioning.

The higher ground prism creates a dynamic overhang above the storage entrance. The motif of the structure rotation is repeated with the terrace house minimize into the constructing’s quantity. The inexperienced roof returns the lacking a part of the backyard minimize off by the home’s footprint and has a completely glazed roof studio on it.

The principle residing house is focused on the higher ground and might be seen via from the backyard to the town. Because of the structure rotation, it was doable to rearrange the rooms across the perimeter whereas sustaining privateness and their very own views.
The idea of the home permits modifications in use akin to altering wants.

The home is split into particular person elements, every with their very own intimate relationship to the backyard and the view, permitting a multi-generational association with two separate visitor sections with separate entry on the doorway ground. The home makes use of the precept of plane camouflage; the primary residing ground is visually related to the sky by dematerialization via mirroring and moiré facades and “levitates” on the Corten base sunk into the slope.

From above, the inexperienced roof with the studio merges with the backyard metropolis, dotted with homes. The wine cellar, swimming pool with grotto, entry space, fencing with entrance gate and dustbin field develop into the slope and merge with the backyard. The backyard flows easily round the home and creates hidden bays shielded from the skin that enable panoramic views of the town.

The open idea naturally achieves privateness because of the vegetation defending the boundaries of the positioning.LayoutAccess to the home is from the road via the gate and the doorway ground with storage, which permits separate entry to the primary residing ground and to the visitor condo. The principle residing space is on the primary ground and is accessible by a single-flight entrance staircase opening a view of the backyard.

The structure minimizes the necessity of corridors in favour of easy residing house. The zoning of the quiet and social elements is led from the centre of the structure to the perimeters. All the quiet areas are accessible from the central social zone, and the elements for fogeys and youngsters are separated.

The social zone is an area with a kitchen, eating room and front room operating via the home, which, because of its location, stays protected contained in the structure. Round this central half, there are different rooms in nook positions across the perimeter of the structure in order that they profit both from the view of the town or from contact with the backyard.

The home is visually permeable (from the within out) via its north and south facades, whereas the east and west facades shield the privateness of the home from contact with neighbours and permit the view out and the solar in via the home windows coated with chrome steel membrane and blinds.

The dad or mum’s zone consists of a bed room related by a walk-in wardrobe and a “secret” door to its personal lavatory, the youngsters’s zone has two kids’s rooms with a rest room and bathroom between them. The structure is complemented by a glazed examine with bookshelves related to the residing space and the terrace via a glazed indoor backyard and a pantry built-in into the built-in kitchen.

The decrease ground is concentrated across the two-car storage situated in the course of the ground plan, with each entrances to the home on the perimeters of the storage. The western a part of the ground accommodates a visitor condo with a separate entrance that can be utilized for grandparents, guests or youngsters.

The condo is designed as an open structure, centred on the social half, with kitchen, eating room and front room, and a separate bed room with its personal walk-in wardrobe, lavatory and separate bathroom. The condo has its personal terrace with a separate backyard.Construction and materialsThe home makes use of its load-bearing construction as a skeleton, the insulation as muscular tissues, heating as blood circulation, air-con as lungs and trachea, water distribution and sewerage as digestive system, wiring as nervous system and floor layers as pores and skin, defending the entire physique and permitting its floor to breathe.

The construction of the home consists of a bolstered concrete monolith insulated with high-performance thermal insulation in a layer akin to low-energy or passive buildings, visually confronted with supplies that naturally assist the composition of the home. The amount of the primary residing ground has a completely structurally glazed north and south facade with giant format metallized triple glazing, whereas the facades dealing with the neighbours are manufactured from a stainless-steel material overlaying the home windows.

Its silky shiny floor enhances the reflection of the glass and creates a unstable moiré that blends in with the sky when seen from the entry street. The decrease ground, together with the storage door, is confronted with pre-corroded Corten metal sheets with a particular rusty color, which emotionally connects the home with the backyard and materially with the doorway gate and backyard parts.

The colors and supplies used work with the semantic separation of the skin and the within. The steel exterior contrasts with the picket inside, consisting of enormous veneer dealing with, built-in furnishings and stable flooring. The dominant materials of the partitions, doorways and built-in furnishings is elm veneer dealing with, together with stable Iroko flooring.

The general impression is that of a steady move of house all through the inside of the home. This move culminates within the particular person structure epicentres utilizing glazed parts rhythmizing the floor of the partitions by the reflection of sunshine, drawing the views from the big home windows into the deeper elements of the inside.

Loos kind the appendices of a flowing inside and the continual notion is interrupted by getting into into their areas; every lavatory makes a particular impression. Particulars are topic to the home as an entire and its perceived “detaillessness” and disclosed tectonics of particular person parts is suppressed in favour of the pure move of the inside pores and skin all through the home.

The veneer follows the compactness of the wall surfaces, the sheets are laid in order that there isn’t a repetition and seamlessly join on all edges and elements. The path of the ground and terrace boards follows the home envelope and subtly attracts consideration to the stress between the 2 rectangular techniques: the outside and the inside.

The ambiance of the inside works with variability created by the stress between pure and modulated illumination and its intense changeability over time. The bogus lighting is designed as an integral (and nonetheless autonomous) layer of the inside, primarily based on a mixture of direct and oblique gentle mixed with the distinctive supplies of the inside.

The lights mix mirrored “iridescent” gentle subtle by lenses with two-colour diffusion filters mirrored from the ceiling and direct illumination with non-coloured gentle. The ceilings use a refined retroreflective impact of pearlescent coat in shades fading from the centre of the structure in direction of its edges, into the person bays of the inside.

The home provides a multi-layer gradual separation of the inside from the outside utilizing membranes of curtains, drapes and screens, made of materials akin to the character of the partitions with completely different gentle transmittance, from effective translucency to finish blackout.Backyard and exterior elements of the houseThe backyard is designed as a easy carpet.

The pure dominant function is the grotto with swimming pool, making a coated exterior with a view of the valley. The pool is positioned in order that its water stage lies above the “stage” of the home’s roof, which might be neglected throughout swimming and perceived as related to the backyard metropolis within the valley.

The curved type of the grotto consists of progressively rotated large larch planks joined as formwork for a hidden bolstered concrete shell sunk within the terrain adjoining the grotto, making a “cave” minimize out of the backyard hill. The stainless steel pool makes use of an edge overflow with a gutter, copying the slope of the adjoining terrain and creating an limitless floor impact.
The quilt that retains water temperature when the pool just isn’t in use is hidden underneath a bench manufactured from stainless-steel rods immersed within the pool.

The cellar is an adaptation of the unique brick vaulted cellar, a relic of the unique allotment colony. It was complemented and geared up with an inside metal waxed cabinets for bottles. The cellar’s roof is roofed with Irish moss rising via reinforcing slate construction copying its easy form. Privateness is maintained by tall bamboo vegetation and grasses organically related to the undulating terrain, which is complemented by a number of solitary woody vegetation chosen with emphasis on their diversified look throughout 12 months.

A separate thematic layer, which compositionally connects the home with the backyard, is the home’s roof with a fully-glazed studio sunk barely into its floor. When seen from the studio, the inexperienced roof is perceived as its personal “infinity” meadow that blends with the distant backyard metropolis.Technical designThe home is designed with an emphasis on connecting its architectural and spatial qualities with the at the moment accessible technological ideas and achieves the parameters of low-energy to a passive customary.

This, along with a reference to the topographical identify of the positioning, led to the identify Lazy home. The whole home has managed air flow with recuperation mixed with underfloor heating related to a warmth pump with two earth boreholes situated underneath the muse slab of the home and reverse operation used for cooling in summer season.

Heating and cooling are low-temperature and imperceptible to the contact on the flooring. Mixed distribution with its personal regulation heats the lavatory partitions with towel rails and metal posts within the indoor backyard. The outside air-con inlet is led to the house subsequent to the cellar at a non-freezing depth, which permits air temperature therapy even earlier than the precise recuperation.

Air flow distributions are led from the engine room underneath the storage ceiling and within the ground buildings in direction of the exhaust shops into the plenum packing containers with the distribution via virtually invisible slits within the edges the place the flooring meet the floor-to-ceiling home windows. The recirculation works via the inlets within the lavatory ceilings and the slits between the ceiling and veneer panels.

The glazed roof studio might be shaded utilizing display screen blinds and regionally cooled by a unit hidden within the stairs to the terrace. The pool know-how with filtration is situated inside the home and makes use of free-flowing water assortment from the pool gutters and its subsequent again pumping. The backyard is irrigated by the subsurface groundwater and from a drilled nicely and a reservoir hidden within the house above the grotto.

The energetic lightning conductor is situated exterior the home on the higher finish of the backyard behind the grotto, and covers the complete web site..

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