Staggered concrete flooring create a “vertical cave” via the centre of this compact household dwelling within the Czech Republic, designed by native studio Malý Chmel.
Aptly named Home of Seven Flooring, the house’s extra typical exterior, designed to suit its sloping suburban web site, conceals an uncovered concrete inside of interconnected ranges that encourage the household’s youngsters to play and discover.

“The design course of centered on maximising the spatial expertise inside a restricted plot measurement,” Malý Chmel founding associate Zdeněk Chmel informed Dezeen.
“Essentially the most vital gesture is the creation of fluid, interconnected areas the place mild and views dynamically change with motion.”

“The strategy of stacking a number of ranges inside a small footprint not solely preserved the backyard but additionally created a home that feels bigger than its bodily constraints,” Chmel added.
Coming into onto the house’s first ground, a “quasi-spiral” metal staircase connects every degree, the concrete ground plates of which have all been left uncovered.

This central stair is supported by central sections of concrete wall that the studio describes as an “inside statue”.
On Home of Seven Flooring’ floor degree, the dwelling, eating and kitchen space overlooks the backyard with a full-height window and glass door. The kitchen counters are organised alongside the partially subterranean wall reverse.
The stepped flooring then transfer upwards, staggered throughout totally different edges of the house’s polygonal plan so that every can profit from views and pure mild via giant home windows.
On the third and fourth ranges are the kids’s rooms, adopted by ranges containing a rest room, research and at last the principle bed room on the high of the house.

“The rooms ascend progressively, reflecting the terrain’s contours, the architectural intent to interconnect the home’s areas, and the location of rooms in accordance with their operate and orientation to the cardinal instructions,” described Chmel.
“Openings within the facade had been fastidiously positioned to reinforce views and daylighting, supporting the idea of the vertical cave and its interaction of sunshine and shadow,” he added.

Home of Seven Flooring’ inside finishes, described by the studio as “minimalist and rugged” are outlined by concrete flooring, partitions and ceilings, that are left uncooked to stress the sculptural kinds created by the stacked layers.
Different properties within the Czech Republic not too long ago featured on Dezeen embrace the renovation of a Renaissance-era townhouse by architecture studio ORA and a charred-timber-clad home by Atelier Hajný that references traditional cabins.
The images is by Alex Shoots Buildings.