In 2013, the construction of an unobtrusive, yet distinctive detached house was completed according to a design project by the Prague studio Design4Function. It stands in the direct neighbourhood of the production building of the town abattoir and links, contrastingly, to the standardized terraced housing built in the 1970s.
The new building fits into the complicated urban layout thanks to the arrangement of its mass, composed of two ground-floor buildings laid out in L-form. The detached house itself, with its pitched roof, echoes the shape of the building plot, stretching along its longer border, at a right angle to the road. It borders with the historical building of the abattoir, and corresponds with its low building and pitched roof. The garage and workshop are connected with the house itself perpendicularly, thus blocking the view from the street into the garden. In contrast with the house, this part features a flat roof which overhangs the walkway into the garden and also corresponds with the modern terraced houses opposite.
The tranquil, horizontal line of the low building is accentuated by the horizontal layout of the windows and cedar laths. The wooden cladding is complemented by anthracite-coloured metal flashing, seamlessly merging from the roof to the whole south-east facade.
The investor was deeply involved in preparing the project, having had a precise vision of how the house should look, including its layout, materials and interior partitioning. The former has the additional feature of rooms accessible through a corridor running almost the whole length of the house. Distinctive interior features include massive, exposed wooden trusses and endeavours to interconnect the interior and the exterior (thanks to the French window in the living room, the entrance onto the wooden patio decking, and the aforementioned horizontal window strips).
