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Four Houses in One by Kuba & Pila? architekti

A set of four apartment buildings on a common base in a traditional residential area

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Kuba & Pila? architekti designed a residential complex conceived as four living volumes protruding from a common green-roofed base. Orthogonal grid of low hedges, gabion baskets planted with hornbeams, forms private gardens adjoined to wooden decks, acting as an outdoor living space and featuring the unifying element of the whole complex – greenery. Discover more after the jump.

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From the architects: The building is located in a quiet residential Masaryk district, full of quality pre-war functionalist architecture. The volume and spatial solution is based on the character and proportions of the nearest buildings. Residential complex consists of four blocks of different sizes – apartment buildings – which protrude above the terrain from a common underground base.

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The set of buildings thus naturally fits into its surroundings. The site with a south-west orientation and an attractive view over the Brno Exhibition Centre to the Kohoutovice forest was the reason for the maximum orientation and the opening of the residential complex into this direction. The apartment buildings descend along the slope, their height decreases towards the southern tip of the plot.

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The pair of buildings along Neumannova Street has four floors above the ground and one underground floor, which are connected by a staircase hall with elevators. Two lower apartment buildings have three and two floors above the ground, and with their smaller volume they follow the size of villas along the lower part of the plot. Between the sidewalk of Neumannova Street and the upper apartment buildings, a semi-private living space with a seating area has been designed. On the roof of the parking base between the individual buildings is a private courtyard with gardens connected to the apartments. They are separated by low hedges – gabion baskets planted with hornbeams. The set of buildings is built as a combined brick and reinforced concrete structure. The facades are clad with clinker brick slips.

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The smooth surfaces of the fixed and sliding panels made of aluminium sheets provide contrast to the structured surface of the brick slips. The floors of common areas inside buildings, stairs and tiling of entrance vestibule are made of cast terrazzo. Ceilings, stairs and elevator shafts were made as structural elements from exposed concrete. The unifying element of the whole building is the concept of greenery, which will stand out more and more over the time.

Studio: Kuba & Pila? architekti – www.arch.cz/kuba.pilar
Author: Tomáš Pila?, Ladislav Kuba, Wojciech Wilczek, Jan Kopecký

Project location: Neumannova Street 578/17, Brno, Czech Republic
GPS: 49.195090N, 16.578045E

Project year: 2015-2018
Completion year: 2020
Built-up Area: 3322 m²
Usable Floor Area: 3316 m² apartments
Plot size: 4036 m²
Dimensions volume: 23 066 m3
47 apartments

Client: Neumann bytový d?m

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