Painters’ Residence is a compact residence renovation in Prague, Czech Rep., designed by Neuhäusl Hunal for a younger household of educational artists. Accomplished in 2020, the challenge works inside a restricted price range and retains the plan largely intact, utilizing concrete, plywood, tile, reused furnishings, artwork, and self-built parts to show a small panel-house flat right into a relaxed, versatile house.
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About Painters’ Residence
Lack of cash and scarce expert labor set the phrases right here. The response is improvisation, playful imperfection, and a transparent belief that work, crops, and on a regular basis life will full what structure intentionally leaves open.
A household of educational artists approached the studio in late summer time 2019 to reconstruct a reasonably small residence in a panel home on Červený vrch. The house wanted a full renovation to swimsuit a younger household with a toddler. The purchasers selected the atelier after seeing the Concrete residence, and though the price range was tight, that restrict was balanced by a powerful mutual understanding between architects and purchasers.
The result’s an inside formed much less by end than by use. Current furnishings from the purchasers’ former residence, art work made by the household and their pals, secondhand lighting, and parts of self-built work all grow to be a part of the ultimate composition. Slightly than forcing each floor and element to decision, the challenge leaves room for change and for the occupants to maintain shaping the rooms over time.
The doorway corridor and kitchen are tied collectively by a direct grid of tiles that continues onto the partitions. Above the range, that grid breaks to type a form of cooking altar. Glass blocks deliver gentle into the lavatory, the place turquoise grout sharpens the colour and texture of the room. In the principle rooms, the unique wooden flooring had been refurbished.
A number of current parts had been dealt with with deliberate roughness. Unique doorways had been eliminated, and the openings within the concrete partitions had been left roughly minimize. Load-bearing partitions and ceilings had been cleaned again to concrete so far as attainable. Tin doorways had been then put in, permitting magnets for use and giving the hall an avant-garde edge that contrasts with the hotter character of the dwelling areas.
The structure stays largely unchanged in building phrases, however its use shifts in necessary methods. The dwelling space is functionally linked to the bed room, which frees up an unbiased youngsters’s room. Plywood kinds the three essential built-in interventions: an open multifunctional storage block within the corridor, a full wall of cupboards in the principle room, and the whole kitchen with its eating nook.
Pictures by Radek Úlehla
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