“Zahájí”, a sloping area of land to the north of the town, was still almost undeveloped by the end of the 1960s (there was only a line of detached houses at the southern end of Kornická Street and the slaughterhouse premises on Družstevní Street). In the 1970s however, a large housing estate slowly developed here according to 1967 urban development plans, and consisting mainly of individual, predominantly terraced housing.
With the exception of the atypical terraced houses in Jabloňová Street designed by the Prague architect Jiří Lasovský (02-315), the housing consisted of groups of standardized, mainly two-storey houses. However, in Jabloňová Street we can find a group of single-storey terraced houses. Designated “PL 1”, these were designed by the architect Jaroslav Pisařík, of the Brno branch of Agroprojekt, who also carried out other designs. A larger, two-generational, two-storey design – the “PL 2”, a derivative of the “PL 1” design – was put to use on the opposite side of the street.
The layout of the small PL 1 design, with its utility basement and three-room living quarters on the raised ground floor, is reminiscent of the widespread, popular, detached “Šumperák” house (03-196). Marked design features include the street facade with full-length loggia, and the strip window providing light for the main living room.
The PL 1 houses are typical examples of the standardized production of the 1970s when investors were desperately seeking individual housing solutions, and thus accepted compromises in the form of unremarkable designs. Such designs usually consisted of precisely these standardized terraced houses. This method of building was dictated both by the small building plots themselves and the subsequent savings in building materials, but also by requirements for a higher density of population per hectare.
