Villa in Ostrava, Czech Republic completed by the Prague office

This recently completed villa, commissioned by a private client, is located in a suburban environment with outstanding views to surrounding landscape.

The brief required a single storey design which reflected and enhanced the site qualities.  Using Frank Lloyd Wright’s ideas about the ‘prairie’ house as a starting point,  the Czech office have produced a building whose interior spaces resonate harmoniously with the surrounding garden.  

Developing this concept further the architects Pavel Nasadil and Jan Horky sited the building in the centre of the property on its highest point, a predominantly flat plateau, to maximize the footprint of this large property and ensure that as many views were taken into account as possible.

The result is a modular concept in which interior spaces are interchanged with a series of atriums or, as we think of them, external rooms. The building is a series of walls and openings arranged in a manner which has produced in itself an organic plan and elevation.

The building is braced by an exposed concrete parapet, a structural feature which enhances the building’s horizontality. This exact and heavy form is accentuated by a tall fireplace chimney, a stand alone element in its own right whose slim chimney is a reflection of the industrial heritage of the Ostrava.