Excerpt: Michalka Line – Phase 2, a housing designed by Atelier 38 takes advantage of the sloping terrain and creates the basement, with an entrance and a garage, which is embedded from the eastern side of the street to the terrain. The first floor with the main living space opens westwards through a covered terrace to the garden and on the other side through large glazing to the eastern sun. In the attic are the bedrooms with a roof terrace.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] One of the typical housing developments of the industrial Ostrava is the workers’ colonies of semi-detached houses and terraced houses. These forms are characteristic urban structures in the green areas of industrial city.
Terraced houses are located among the heterogeneous development consisting of single-family houses, a gardening colony, linear apartment houses and a supermarket near the former Michal mine. There was nothing to build on, so we created a fixed, memorable line – a sign, just as the structures of the workers’ colonies used to be.
Nine terraced houses along Radvanická Street complement the development of terraced houses on Chleborádova Street from Phase I. The layout of the houses is 6+kk family houses with a garage and storage.
The development takes advantage of the sloping terrain – the basement, with an entrance and a garage, is embedded from the eastern side of the street to the terrain. The first floor with the main living space opens westwards through a covered terrace to the garden and on the other side through large glazing to the eastern sun. In the attic are the bedrooms with a roof terrace.
The lines of the terraced houses – cantilevered archetypal volumes of houses with gabled roofs – are distinctly vertically subdivided into individual houses.
The houses are constructed of brick, the ceilings are monolithic reinforced concrete, and the roof trusses are timber. The houses are heated by electric underfloor heating in combination with heat recovery.
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