Molo architekti

The Molo architekti design studio was founded in 2008 by Pavel Griz (*1981), Maja Horecká Nalevanková (*1979), Tereza Kučerová (*1980) and Patrik Zamazal (*1973). All four are graduates of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague where Patrik Zamazal, the slightly older member of the group, worked as an assistant at Petr Keil's studio until 2009. Later, in 2013, Václav Novák (*1988) joined the group. The studio specializes predominantly in the design of detached houses and recreational buildings of lightweight, wooden construction. Their houses are compact, simple, sparing in form, of well-calculated proportions, well suited to their surroundings, and age well. The designers put great stress on the connectivity of the interior and the exterior, large windows and views. Of the large number of such buildings, several deserve mention: a modest “retirement” house in Lanškroun (2008), an elongated house with corner windows on Vinice Hill near Vysoké Mýto (2012) or a house in Krásnice built on sloping ground at the foot of which there is space for parking under the house itself (2013).

However, in 2008, the Molo studio undertook the design of a completely different type of building – a hemodialysis centre in Bruntál – a rational building with a sheet-metal clad facade and strip windows, and on which the reconstruction of another hemodialysis centre in Bohumín was based in 2015. The architects utilised their experience with these designs when modifying a town house in Litomyšl (2010) to create a health centre combined with a flat and a small courtyard garden.

2008
Hemodialysis centre, Bruntál

2008
Detached house in Lanškroun

2010
Detached house in Žamberku

2012
Detached house in Vinice, Vysoké Mýto

2013
Detached house near Krásnice

2014
EMA espreso bar, Prague-New Town

2015
Hemodialysis centre, Bohumín