Economically available family house in Vrané nad Vltavou

Client: Mgr. MSc. Anna Petrů a Martin Šimíček
Location: Vrané nad Vltavou
Year of completition: 2022
Photo: Petr Toman

The house was conceived as an example of a low-cost modular house, designed for a small family and allowing for growth along with the increasing needs of the family. The uniqueness of this approach is that in the case of increasing space requirements, the house can be supplemented with a modular unit that is simply integrated to the house without any complex interventions. For example, it can be used to expand the house with the function of a bedroom and bathroom. The whole idea was based on the idea that the house grows together with its users and, as needs increase, it allows the investment to be divided into smaller parts. A starting couple does not have to worry about planning a large house for a large family when they do not need it. The house is reduced only to current needs. To achieve this idea, we chose the technology of dry modular construction.
From a design point of view, it is a very simple square building built on the principle of an almost rigid cube, where the square format plays a key role in the compositional arrangement of the building. The square and the cube are inscribed in the compositional and spatial arrangement and using orthogonal composition, the cubic volume of the building is horizontally divided into smaller units. The area division of the building is achieved by dividing the building fillings and becomes an important factor. The spatial division of the building is achieved by using cuboid volumes, when some volumes are removed from the cube of the house – as is the case, for example, in the place of the terrace, and somewhere they are added again – as is the case, for example, with exterior prefabricated staircases. Economically available materials and system solutions were used here, so that the building cost around 153 000,-Euro.

This is a partial reconstruction, where the lower part of the 1st floor of the original building of the former cottage was left and the two newly constructed above-ground floors were structurally created as an all-wooden bracket-beam structure. The building is designed in a low-energy standard. The overall economic solution of the building and the effectiveness of the functional solution are evidence of a sustainable approach.