House for Baletka
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The proprietor of this house is a certain pub owner from Liberec, known as "Briza" (Czech for Birch) to his friends. Mutual understanding between the architect and the client is crucial in any project, but in this case it was to prove even more important than ever before. Already at our first meeting to discuss the design of the house, he and his wife Peta, a ballet dancer, signed off on a rather bold conception of an open interior layout. He started building immediately after he received the necessary technical documentation. He did not wait for permission from the authorities and built the house himself, with the help of his friends. That was one of the reasons why the building was finished in six months at a cost of just a little over a million crowns. |
Briza’s approach – resolute and dogged – is exactly what we like to see in people we want to work for. The design of the house took shape in the course of a single afternoon, all of us coming to an agreement and settling on a single conception – a rare event. One of the reasons for this accord was that we had all just been travelling together in Lapland. We don’t deny the Nordic influence. location: Radlo, Czech republic photo (c) Jaroslav Kvíz |
