Living in the suburbs

The subject of my bachelor's thesis is to design a residential building on the outskirts of Brno. The building site is located on the outskirts of Líšeň, in a lucrative area near Mariánské valley. During the process it was necessary to consider the specific northern slope of the building site and thus make maximum use of a limited amount of natural light. I designed a house with seven housing units, common areas and commercial space. The apartment complex consists of two buildings. The main one has an L-shaped floor plan and there are all housing units, including garages, cellars and technical facilities. The second building is also L-shaped, but this time frontal viewed, there is a commercial space with a glass wall to the main street, space for facilities and on the roof there is a spacious walking terrace for social life and a small common room. The two objects together create a semi-public space. This courtyard is optically separated from the busy streets by the buildings themselves. There is greenery and the space is ideal for young families with small children. Another widely used space will be the garden, a strip of greenery left in the southern part of the plot. The residential building itself is very indented in terms of material. Four terraces and three atriums are taken from the whole mass of the letter L, which creates a private outdoor space for the residents. Terraces and atriums are only in the maisonettes, so that even bedsits located on the ground floor have a private outdoor seating area. There are also ground-floor terraces, which are accessible from each living room. The construction is actually a wall system made of Porotherm bricks. Ferroconcrete columns are used in the underground parking spaces. Horizontal load-bearing structures are ferroconcrete monolithic ceilings. The material solution is clean and simple. The façade is light grey with a concrete screed on the plinth and anthracite-colored doors and window frames