Ten plateaus House | n/a bradnansky halada

Ten plateaus House is another object form the series where we research and test a design strategy that aims not only a house but also a complementary landscape adjoined to the site and garden. Local surrounding is humble and limited as the site is on the edge of a suburban development bordering a large agricultural area.

The aim was to maximize the connection between the dwelling and the garden, not only by utilitarian architectural interior space but to try to introduce a dramatic habitable landscape with consecutively layered spatial plans, as you could experience in landscape paintings. The interior space is a continuation of the outdoor that surrounds the house but the continuation is a mannerist one.  The prosthetics of the interior landscape introduces into the local topography new themes of folding, canyons, caves and hillocks. It is not a baroque mockup and transition of natural features into intricate artificial volumes done by external resemblance, but it is conceived as abstract and topological embedded into Cartesian body of orthogonal volumes.

The actual natural garden becomes only one of the plateaus of the folded landscape on the journey through the House. The continual arrangement of the platforms, that rise by 50 cm each, creates an artificial sloping terrain and thus enables transversal visual connections into the exterior together and provokes new spatial interior relations between the inhabitants and their activities while keeping the contact while changing their positions. The principle of spiraling raumplan is a cross-reference to podium like arrangement of spaces that could be find in architectures that we like – Dedeček’s Gallery, Svetko’s Radio, Loos’s Villas, Houses by Rudolph and Lampens.

The basic spatial arrangement is a spiral of 10 platforms spiraling around a long shelve.

The way through the house becomes a journey as the space meanders in all three directions and enables longitudinal views and cross glimpses. The interior landscape changes its spatial character through its unfolding of the habitable spiral. It changes its orientation, boundaries, and type of connection to other levels. Various heights assigned to the specific parts of the landscape together with various openings to the outside and inside generate complexity that goes beyond the obvious residential needs. The platforms become plateaus that could be open and democratic with blurred boundaries between them or more enclosed private caves.

The slow and scenic journey through the whole house spiraling from the entry to the master bedroom could be altered by a hidden shortcut between the levels #3 and #9. And the interior sequence from #1 to #10 is open to the outside on levels #1, #3, #4 directly to the ground of the site but also through loggias on levels #6 and #10 thus opening up the interpretation of Ten plateaus House into Ten Plus plateaus House.

architect: N/A

Benjamín Brádňanský

Vít Halada

Interior co-author: Maroš Greš

Structure: Ján Pivarč