Until relatively recently, at the intersection of Lidická and Zámecká streets in the neighbourhood of the historical centre of the town, there was a large unkempt garden with mature fruit trees. The sloping grounds in an urban setting are all the more complicated due to the nearby busy road, an underground conduit carrying the Drahoška stream, and the disparate built-up area around it. However, in 2010, two closely-related investors had two detached houses built on the grounds according to designs by the Brno architect and native of Litomyšl – Jan Májek.
From the very beginning, the investors wanted two separate houses and had determined a construction programme. However, they did not have any definite ideas concerning the appearance of the houses, and were thus open to any reasonable suggestions concerning location, size and construction materials.
The architect designed both houses on a narrow, elongated floor plan, one set back slightly from the other along the longitudinal axis running at a right-angle to Lidická Street. This was due to the fact that any construction work had to be carried out at a regulatory distance from the aforementioned conduit obliquely intersecting the land. The regular oblong floor plan, only interrupted by the small entrance avant-corps of the east facade, is in direct contrast with the stepped roof, partially used as a terrace. The facades of both houses are similar, differing only minor details (e.g. the placing of the small, square windows on the street facade, the recess for the terrace) and the colouring of the rendering (white, grey). As a whole, both houses complement each other and, thanks to their unifying aspect, appear as a compact unit.
In order to achieve the greatest contact between the ground floor and the garden, the layout of both houses has been adapted to accommodate the sloping terrain, which it actually copies, thus resulting in the shifts in height in the layout, and the overall architectonic appearance of both houses.
