The New Provostry is a historical building from 1877, built in the neo-Gothic style, and is located adjacent to St. Vitus Cathedral in the heart of Prague Castle. The reconstruction concept focuses on reopening the inner courtyard to the public. On both sides of the restored courtyard, two modern annexes have been built where a coach house and stab...
Project name
Extensions and Reconstruction of the New Provostry
Architecture firm
Studio acht
Location
Hradčany 34, Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Václav Hlaváček, Mikuláš Wittlich, and Pavel Jakoubek
Design team
Barbora Janů, Anna Halaburtová, Lukáš Dejdar
Built area
Built-up area: 589 m² historical building; 141 m² extensions; Usable floor area: 1477 m² historical building; 77 m² eastern extension; 88 m² western extension; 147 m² courtyard basement
Collaborators
Mikuláš Wittlich, lead project engineer. Pavel Jakoubek, lead project engineer
Structural engineer
Jan Zima
Material
Reconstruction: Lacquered veneer – restored historical furniture; slate – roof. Extensions: Steel – vertical load-bearing frame structure, removable floor, staircase; sandstone cladding – facade; reinforced concrete monolith – underground parts, ceiling
Client
The Metropolitan Chapter of St. Vitus in Prague
The name of the restaurant is 5th quarter. There is a long story connected to it and that formed the interior design. We have been asked by the owners to change their Jewish restaurant with long tradition in Josefov quarter in the hear of the Prague city.
Project name
5th Quarter Restaurant
Architecture firm
OBJECTUM s.r.o
Location
Josefov, Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Jana Schnappel Hamrova
Interior design
Jana Schnappel Hamrova
Client
Restaurant 5th quarter
Typology
Hospitality › Restaurant
Apartment buildings at the foot of the Jeseníky Mountains in the recreational village of Filipovice.
Project name
Apartments Filipovice
Location
Filipovice 534, 79001 Bělá pod Pradědem – Filipovice, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Roman Gale, David Bureš, Radek Pasterný
Design team
Nicol Gale (Co-author), Kateřina Kunzová (Co-author)
Collaborators
Technical installations: TPS projekt. Statics: Huryta. Fire safety: Zdeňka Maggio.
Built area
Built-up Area: 299 m² building 01; 299 m² building 02; Gross Floor Area: 1132 m² building 01; 1110 m² building 02
Site area
2375 m² Dimensions 3488 m3, building 01 3488 m3, building 02
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Masonry – sand-lime bricks + reinforced concrete walls. Ceilings – reinforced concrete. Foor – polyurethane trowel. Roof covering – larch shingle. Facade – larch shingle + glass mosaic. Roof construction – wooden rafters. Internal plasters – gypsum plasters. Windows – wooden profiles. Heating – heat pumps ground–water.
Typology
Residential › Apartment
Newly built family house in a typical terraced housing in a small village, a suburb of Moravský Krumlov. For the construction, we chose a strict, respectful archetype shape of the house that was already there before our intervention. However, the expression of the house takes on radical and strict shapes in our design. The choice of materials and c...
Project name
Family House Polánka
Location
Nová 1611, 672 01 Moravský Krumlov, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Radek Pasterný
Collaborators
Petr Ducháč (Statics)
Built area
Built-up Area 175 m² Gross Floor Area 295 m² Usable Floor Area 257 m²
Landscape
Stanislav Schwarz
Material
Masonry – sand-lime bricks. Ceilings – reinforced concrete. Floor – cement trowel. Roofing – folded metal sheet. Facade – organic fine-grain plaster. Facade – larch decking. Roof structure – wooden trusses. Interior plaster – gypsum plaster. Furniture – solid oak + MDF.
Typology
Residential › House
A radical remodel of a 1990s attic apartment in Prague Libeň. We are in the attic of a 1930s townhouse in Prague Libeň. An apartment was built here in the 1990s. But there were too many rooms, more than the client needed, anyway. The joy of open attic space was lost in the clutter. Our task was to find it again.
Project name
Attic Apartment with a Black Box
Architecture firm
Komon architekti
Location
Prague 8 – Libeň, Czech Republic
Photography
Tomáš Slavík, www.tomasslavik.cz
Principal architect
Martin Gaberle
Design team
Bořek Peška, Lucie Roubalová, Jana Drtinová
Collaborators
Zlatý řez (Cabinetry)
Built area
141 m², 109 m² (Gross Floor Area), 84 m² (Usable Floor Area)
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Oak veneer treated with black oil, white DTDL board, Mirage Norr terrazzo, concrete plaster, Meister multi-layer oak veneer flooring, tempered glass, coated steel, spruce timber
Typology
Residential › Apartment
