podolské schody

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location: Ve svahu 11-15, Praha 4

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author: Petr Burian a Jiří Havrda Robin Müller, Nikola Procházková

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cooperation: DAM architekti

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client: soukromá osoba

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visual: Visual Fusion

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year: 2020

apartment buildings podolské schody / ve svahu

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The basis of the concept of the mass solution we have chosen is respect for the naturally developed regulation of the site and at the same time for the limits, which we consider to be compliance with the height line of the roofs of the buildings in Ve svahu Street and the preservation of an unobstructed view from the park in Topolce Street. The design of the apartment buildings densifies the percentage of land development and approaches the permissible limits in the area. However, we are convinced that these are precisely the places similar to our situation, where the metropolis should and can become more densely populated internally, without noticeably changing the character of the development in the locality. We enter the rectangular plot with a quadruple of similarly modeled masses of de facto identical morphology. The masses, with their rather elevated and isolated character, correspond well with the surrounding development consisting mainly of villa houses. The proposed position of the members of the quadruple is determined by several influences. Distances from the western neighboring building (we maximize), distances from the land borders (we minimize), an effort to provide the largest percentage of apartments with southern sunlight and the orientation of the main facades to attractive views of the valley, as well as the response to the terrain profile of the slope. After taking these factors into account, the constellation of the southern pair of masses was created, fully adapted to the street line and the northern pair shifted to the axis of the gap between the objects of the southern pair. Both masses located further north turn more to the west, more of them then the mass in the NE corner, where the terrain profile also behaves similarly. The masses are also spaced out in height with respect to each other, always in such a way that the southern pair is one floor lower than the northern one and at the same time as the rising vertical of Ve svahu street, the height of the attics in the global always rises by 1m for each of the masses from SW to NE. Parking under the buildings is logically accessible only from Ve svahu street, is also divided into levels (two) and forms a natural plinth of the entire mass composition. Given the sloping terrain of the land, the level connected to the road soon disappears underground and it is difficult to propose any other use than for parking, entrance areas and facilities. In order to allow light to penetrate better between the masses and at the same time significantly expand the spectrum of possible views, we propose to round off the corners of the otherwise essentially cubic masses at all corners. At the same time, we are expanding the southwestern, most attractive facade by expanding the floor plan of the floors to a regular trapezoid. This creates a quadrilateral with very unmistakable and legible detail, and the tension in the composition is brought about by the slight variation in the positions of the mass units relative to each other.