The so-called Straw House by architect Petr Suske and his SEA studio got quite an enthusiastic reception in Czech architectural circles upon its completion almost twenty years ago. The design concept, based on the simple yet original idea of “a haystack with an umbrella”, combined the earthy feeling of natural materials with a certain lightness of high-tech architecture. Immediately establishing itself as the go-to inspiration source for architecture students, the house became a popular subject for various magazine articles, much to the owner’s increasing exasperation.
» entire articleWhile lacking a waterfall of its own, the Czech variation on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House, designed by Markéta Cajthamlová and Lev Lauermann, succeeds in emulating the iconic building’s general character. Planes of light-coloured wood and brick alternate in the generous free-flowing space while the cool woodland hums gently behind the windows, and light filters in through the leaves.
» entire article“Since I built the house, I used it partly for self-promotion,” says the owner and architect Luděk Rýzner of his Rusty House in Humpolec as he takes us inside. An early project of Rýzner, Rusty House was designed as a sort of showroom for his studio OK PLAN ARCHITECTS.
» entire articleIn summer 2022, the latest in a series of architecturally notable preschool new-builds was completed in Říčany near Prague. Situated at the edge of an existing low-rise development and a new housing area Větrník, it will most definitely stand out among the old and new family homes—the street front remains relatively modest with a simple white render finish, but in the back garden the massing unfolds in a series of bright colourful pyramidal shapes, or pagodas. Inside, the main entrance atrium is the heart of the building with a huge rope net hanging above, accessible from the gallery. In the classrooms, the irregular spaces underneath the pagodas’ slanting roofs become hideouts or teepees with scattered daylight coming in through small triangular windows.
» entire articleIf we are to understand and develop diversity in environmental design it is necessary to reevaluate the dialectical approach to it. Not in the sense of creating and emphasising polarities, but through listening to and observing the resonance of the life-giving tensions between them. In the same way vital stability needs occasional instability, viable domestication needs a certain amount of wilding. It makes it easier to accept otherness, which doesn’t have to mean a loss of existing values, but instead can be crucial for their restimulation and updating. It can help overcome the anthropocentric approach to the environment and decolonise its impacts in favour of new ecologies of interspecies coexistence.
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