Living in a city of nowadays - architectural and urban redevelopment of Kohn's brickyard in Brno

The subject matter of the master’s thesis is the compound of former Kohn's brickyard which is located in the cadastral of Brno-Štýřice. The aim of this urban and architecture project is to find the form of living suited to this area with detail study of one of the blocks. It picks up the threads of project of the preceding term about analysing of the area and its urban design in the broad context. The intention of the urban redevelopment is to connect this area with the live structure of the city keeping the specific of this locating and the future development of the neighbourhood in mind. The proposal promotes mixed-use development as an important element of the high-quality living in the city and as a sustainable form of development. The topic of the living remains as a basic topic of this urban design. New proposal provides living for the students, residence for seniors, housing in standard form and the high-end housing as well. The aim of the detail urban and architecture study is to specify the idea of the development. It is not only about application of ordinary development of nowadays. This project wants to show another possible form of living according to the geographical and economics conditions. It finds the answer to the questions who could be the investor of the development and who would be the resident. The concept admits possibility of the one person as an investor and resident at the same time. The result wants to meet the requirements and ideas of a living of nowadays and respect the economic situation as well. The suggest development profits from the location near the centre of the Brno city and it will make the most of the fact that it is not part of the density housing development of the downtown. The proposal contains all of the mention factors into the concept of ‘villahouse‘. Each of the villahouse will consists of four dwelling of the different size and number of rooms from the small one with one single room to the high-end duplex apartment. The principal feature of the villahouse is to keep advantage of the family house as much as possible. It means that each of the flat has own private enter space, garage and parking space on the own estate, storage spaces and the extension of the interior spaces to the exterior as an element which make the attractiveness of the flat stronger