Publication detail

HIDDEN VALUES OF THE RESIDENTIAL GROUP OF FAMILY HOUSES IN BRECLAV -POSTORNA

DOCAKALOVA, L.

Original Title

HIDDEN VALUES OF THE RESIDENTIAL GROUP OF FAMILY HOUSES IN BRECLAV -POSTORNA

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Suburban parts of urban areas are now flooded with a number of new houses. As a rule, this is a very sparse building development that takes ground away from the surrounding free landscape which our ancestors shaped with great sensitivity. In the surroundings of large cities, other new chaotic satellite housing estates are arising. The article briefly introduces the uniqueness of the residential group of family houses in Breclav in Postoma suburb, which originated in the 1970s during the period of socialist Czechoslovakia. Nevertheless, it is an example of a group with a consistent hierarchy of a space and with an emphasis on the creation of public space. The 1970s, in terms of family houses, are characterized by the construction of family houses in the form of row buildings along the road from which the individual houses are accessible for pedestrians and for traffic. This form of row buildings significantly prevailed, also because it was supported by the government through the technical conditions. From the point of view of town-planning, the group in Breclav is exceptional due to the fact that it is a fully-fledged architectural work, even if born out of the difficult conditions and in the period of limited material basis. The town-planning concept was based on modern principles aimed at interconnecting and drawing nature into the interior of the house in such a way that certain intimacy is preserved. This connection is achieved both by the spatial structure of the buildings themselves and by a consistent separation of pedestrians and the car traffic. In the Czechoslovakia of that time, no similar residential group has been executed. The author of the housing group, architect Jaromir Zlamal, who worked in Brno, was the author of a number of significant family houses in the 1960s and 1970s.

Keywords

Břeclav-Poštorná; individual housing in 1970s; residential groups of family houses; Drupos; architect Jaromír Zlámal; traffic segregation; technical specifications; public space.

Authors

DOCAKALOVA, L.

Released

2. 11. 2017

Publisher

VŠB - TU Ostrava, Fakulta stavební, katedra architektury

Location

Ostrava

ISBN

978-80-248-4058-1

Book

Architecture In Perspective 2017

Edition number

1

Pages from

195

Pages to

198

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT156531,
  author="Lenka {Dočekalová Klimešová}",
  title="HIDDEN VALUES OF THE RESIDENTIAL GROUP OF FAMILY HOUSES IN BRECLAV -POSTORNA",
  booktitle="Architecture In Perspective 2017",
  year="2017",
  number="1",
  pages="195--198",
  publisher="VŠB - TU Ostrava, Fakulta stavební, katedra architektury",
  address="Ostrava",
  isbn="978-80-248-4058-1"
}