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House in the Garden – Garden in the House

project:  2021 ​

completion: 2024

service: architectural design

+ author supervision

category: recreational housing

The Křivoklátsko shelter is a materialization of the saying "if Mohammed cannot go to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed". A building with only about 20 square meters of interior space can be built on the site, which would not meet all the needs of the future users. At the same time, the clients were open to non-traditional uses of the space. Since the shelter will only serve as a hideout during the summer months, I invited landscape architect Alice Bouškova to participate in the process. In the design, we use the entire property as a non-traditional interior. For example, there is an outdoor bathroom whose "ceiling" is made of the crowns of the multi-branch-tree, a sunken seating area by the fireplace with "walls" of shrubs, or outdoor "corridors" that guide the scenery of this unconventional house. It's just a matter of changing the way we look at the architectural elements we're working with. Natural motifs inspired by traditional tapestries from the client's favorite country were then used to inspire the building's interior in the form of a mosaic image.

Architectural design: Alžběta P. Brůhová + Alice Boušková (landscape architecture)

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