The design of the house "B2" is a response to the Investor's guidelines and location on a narrow plot with an entrance from the south. The result was a house tailored to the needs of future users, which is an enclave in the densifying surrounding development. The house combines in its structure a modernistic body of the first floor with a gabled block of the first floor.
House B2
© Laboratory of Architecture
FUNCTIONAL AND UTILITY LAYOUT
The division into functional zones in the presented design is based on a layout in which the living zone, located on the south and west sides, constitutes the bulk of the first floor. The parents' night zone is adjacent to it on the northwest side. A separate zone dedicated to children was located on the first floor.
The living zone, is an open plan with an adjacent dining room and flows smoothly into the kitchen area located on the entrance side in the southeast corner of the house.
The two-car garage is located in a separate segment on the eastern side of the plot with an entrance from the south. A separate entrance area with a hall with a dressing room is centrally located between the residential segment and the garage.
House2
© Laboratory of Architecture
Reversing the entrance in relation to the neighboring modules of the two-car garage on the right and the principle building on the right, shapes the entrance foreground under the canopy.
The exit from the living room and dining room, located on the west side, through the terrace leads to the garden.
The private zone on the first floor consists of the parents' bedroom, with an adjoining bathroom and a transitional dressing room. The exit from it is located opposite a two-legged staircase leading upstairs to the children's rooms. Just behind the staircase on the north side is the boiler room with an independent exit to the outside.
House B2
© Laboratory of Architecture
On the first floor located above the living room area and the night zone are a study and children's rooms with an independent bathroom. A utility room has also been developed behind the stairs.
The rooms and study on the first floor, are illuminated traditionally, with windows in the gable walls located on the east and west sides. The bathroom and utility room are lit by roof windows.
The house2
© Laboratory of Architecture
THE FORM OF THE OBJECT - A TRANSFORMED ARCHETYPE
The structure of the house proposed in the project is composed of a flat single-story cuboid based on a square projection with the first floor shaped in the form of an archetype of a house covered by a gable roof with a symmetrical ridge.
The floor plan is set back from the south by about 3m and for the most part coincides with the outline of the first floor, partly forming an overhang over part of the terrace. The ridge is located parallel to the southern border of the plot. A two-car garage, located on the right side of the residential building, is a separate block. It is connected to the building via a glazed connector.
House2
© Laboratory of Architecture
The designed building is kept in white sterile tones of the ground floor. The lump of the first floor, finished in boarding and covered with anthracite tile, stands out clearly from the white body of the ground floor.
House2
© Laboratory of Architecture
