Czech studio RDTH Architekti has reworked an outdated mill and farm in Slovakia right into a household house, introducing a sequence of timber buildings that reference its former sheds and hen coops.
Aptly named New Home with Previous Mill, the house sits alongside a small stream in Trenčín on a web site occupied by the previous mill and several other agricultural buildings.
Whereas RDTH Architekti has restored and prolonged the masonry mill, most of the farm buildings couldn’t be retained and have been changed with cross-laminated timber (CLT) buildings that draw on their former appearances.
“We created an idea with sure a volumetric and materials nostalgia of the given web site and unique constructing,” RDTH co-founder René Dlesk instructed Dezeen.
“We needed to one way or the other remodel it with a extra modern, formal vocabulary, but nonetheless comprehensible by these which can be extra acquainted with the outdated language.”
Organised in a V-shape, the plan of the house creates a central backyard, flanked by the outdated mill to the south and a brand new timber construction housing dwelling areas to the north.
The mill has been transformed into an space for big gatherings, with its present masonry construction restored and uncovered. New additions, reminiscent of a CLT roof and stair, are left uncovered to supply a recent distinction.
“Within the unique mill, it was about preserving the character of the unique,” mentioned Dlesk.
“Subsequently outdated development like oak trusses, thick peripheral partitions in addition to fragments of the initially used applied sciences or the mill are nonetheless very current, simply extra uncovered,” added Dlesk.
“All new interventions in addition to outdated imperfections are clearly seen right here.”
To the east, the mill abuts a protracted, lined parking and cupboard space, following the type of a demolished construction on the positioning.
Completed with giant sliding doorways in slatted wooden, this construction is meant to be simply adaptable ought to the purchasers need to change its use sooner or later.
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“One of many unique buildings didn’t go well with the brand new use in any respect, however its unique form was so necessary for the general character of the place that we changed it with a brand new constructing in precisely the identical form and quantity,” defined Dlesk
“It turned a hollowed, empty area lined by a gable roof. It’s an empty, cathedral-like area, simply pure construction – a hybrid of recent wood and metal constructions together with very basic carpentry,” he added.
The house itself is organised throughout a two-storey timber quantity topped by a zigzagging roof and clad in slender wood planks.
Sliding glass doorways within the floor ground dwelling, eating and kitchen area open onto the central courtyard, wanting in direction of the outdated mill from a wood-decked terrace.
Inside, a minimal end of white partitions and pale wood ceilings focuses consideration on the views out from the house, guaranteeing that the courtyard and outdated mill “are all the time there as a part of the inside ornament,” mentioned Dlesk.
Different tasks lately accomplished in Slovakia embrace a trapezoidal concrete house overlooking a forest by Ksa Studený and a cultural centre in a former heating plant.
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