Discover this contemporary chalet within the Czech Republic

Inside a contemporary chalet within the Big Mountains

The three-storey chalet sits atop a stone-clad concrete plinth with the higher two ranges clad in timber. The shape and scale of the exterior quantity, in addition to the gable angle and materials palette, are rigorously outlined by the mountainous area’s constructing codes.

Regardless of these restrictions, edit! labored with prefabricated cross-laminated timber panels on the higher ranges, liberating up the primary façade for the big home windows and in addition including a modicum of practicality to the distant hillside construct.

Every gable is a meticulous geometric composition, with small home windows that accommodate the proportions of the plinth and roof pitch. ‘Whereas each gables needed to stay strictly conventional, the aspect façades gave us room to introduce trendy architectural components,’ says Calaj, ‘This allowed us to implement large-format glazing in the primary dwelling space and on the summer time entrance, maximising views into the encircling countryside.’

The bottom ground is about into the hillside, and the format exploits this with a big west-facing horizontal image window in the primary dwelling and eating space. On the east façade, the steepness of the slope enabled the architects to find the primary entrance at first ground stage. The bottom ground supplies a bed room, rest room, storage and ski room, with its personal direct entry to the outside.

Upstairs, tucked into the eaves, there are two extra bedrooms and one other rest room, with voids above the doorway and the eating house bridged by a gallery. The primary ground is organized as a big open-plan house, with a kitchen at one finish and dwelling space on the different. A beneficiant household eating desk adjoins the first window, with the timber-clad ceiling hovering as much as the apex of the roof.

The architects describe their strategy as one in every of ‘vertical spatial connection,’ with the highest ground gallery offering a view down into the dwelling house, with rooflights set into the slope to extend the quantity of daylight within the inside in addition to maximise the views.’ Visible contact with nature is crucial and considerably enhances the general expertise of staying within the mountains,’ Calaj says.

The 214 m² Na Kukačkách was nonetheless a tough construct, with a tough location and a brief development season. ‘One key issue within the challenge’s success was the collaboration with the native contractor Registav,’ says the architect, ‘Their detailed information of the demanding mountain circumstances allowed us to exactly plan the set up of the prefabricated CLT panels and minimise the danger of weather-related interruptions.’

The result’s a mountain cabin that transcends its typology, carving a heat and dynamic inside regardless of the challenges of the positioning.