HOUSE — BIOTOPE
Reconstruction of more than 100-year-old house with barn into comfortable family living with a bio pool, spacious terrace and a studio. We have saved the house from demolition and managed to preserve most of the brickwork. We’ve proposed a new roof structure, facade and generous glazing towards the adjacent garden.
The house is energy efficient, built with healthy and natural materials and evaluated by Life cycle analysis.
♻ 100 %
Material recycling
◎ H2O
Use of rain/grey water.
◎ EUR
The original budget was met.
ARCHITEKTURA
The original house had a relatively inefficient orientation as well as the size and number of rooms. The new layout is very simple, uses straight lines, minimizes corridors, and on the ground floor offers beautiful views to the adjacent garden with biotope. The original volume of the family house is connected to the barn by a new structure, which contains the living room. All common rooms have direct access to the wooden terrace through large sliding glass walls. The original roof was replaced by a new structure that allows the use of a residential attic. On the SE side, there is a view of the Beskydy Mountains and Lysá hora from the attic. In terms of materials, the house follows its history (recognized bricks in the interior), but also current trends (light colors, wooden parquet, plywood in the interior, etc.) workshop.
After reconstruction, the house will offer 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a combined kitchen and dining room, a studio and workshop.
UDRŽITELNOST
Due to the extent of the demolition work, it was important to reuse as much material as possible. The original bricks from demolished walls were cleaned and reused for the construction of the partition walls. The rubble was used to level the floors and backfill the foundation structures. Wood from the floors and roof was used for reconstruction purposes (formwork). Hazardous materials (eternite templates) were taken for ecological disposal. The new structures were designed so that they could be disassembled and the individual components reused. The original house was heated with gas heating. The new insulation will reduce energy consumption and an air-to-water heat pump supplemented with photovoltaics and air recovery will be used as a new heating source. Large glazing maximizes the use of daylight. All rainwater is led from the roofs into the storage tank and then into the bathing biotope with a root filter. Excess water will be used to level the biotope and water the garden. The gray water will be channeled into tanks and reused for toilet flushing.
