Luxury housing turned out from the gallery of Žižkov

The reconstruction of the old apartment building in Žižkov with a typical arrangement of the courtyard with the gallery began in 2014. Only the incredible transformation underwent common areas, including a new glass elevator.All forty apartments have one common: a sophisticated layout and the use of quality materials and building elements, whose processing is at an unprecedentedly high level.

The gallery is glazed today, and a glazed elevator has been added.

"Lukáš Uxa, the owner of the house, invited me to the implementation process at the beginning of 2019. It was an intense process of complete adjustment of the layout of all apartments, including the clarification of the roof superstructure with the addition of terraces that were not originally in the project," says architect Pánková.

Jejím úkolem bylo vytvořit „směs“ bytů s různými dispozicemi a velikostmi, vznikly tak interiéry od 26 m² až po 88 m² s terasou 16 m². „Projekt stavebních úprav s návrhem dispozic bytů byl současně promýšlený s interiéry,“ upozorňuje Veronika Pánková.

Three years of work

The whole construction process only after the complete apartment equipment took more than three years.A lot of attention was paid to each detail in the house, because the owner insisted that they were well crafted and maintain the historical aesthetics of the house.

All the wooden windows, which were newly made to measure in a uniform lacquer with the entrance door of the apartments, went through in exchange.The gallery was complemented by glazing."To disturb the glass as little as possible, it is solved framelessly, also the details of the ventilation round windows are designed to be as noticeable in the glass area," says architect Pánková.

Common spaces were given new historicizing tiles, the center staircase remained in its original material, granite.The tiles of common areas were selected in a small format, in a series that allowed the use of bordures and internal ornaments.Each space in the house has its original laying of tiles that corresponds to its width and depth.

The tiles were used by architect Pánková also to the entrance, which flows into the atrium of the house.The open interior is newly paved with concrete tiles, one of the lower apartments was created as part of the atrium by a terrace.The apartment terraces have a Merbau plank surface.

The tiles were used by architect Pánková also in the entrance corridor, which flows into the atrium of the house.

Different surfaces in the atrium are then separated by the central recessed flower, from the beginning designed for planting a growing tree.Concrete pots are planted with grass.The whole space is complemented by atypical full -concrete bench Presbeton and lighting in the form of ground opal balls.

Details such as mailboxes, partly tailored, which have brass upper lids for unification with orientation system in the house, also made in brass, were not forgotten.The same material was used for housing bells and door and windows.

Interiors that do not repeat

“The interiors of the apartments have been solved very individually since the beginning of the design.We have prepared drawings for each apartment by wiring so that the standard corresponds to today's needs.All furniture was drawn and made to measure, ”Veronika Pánková calculates.

She used the same materials, including new oak parquet, except for minor deviations, the author and color unified.All furniture combines four basic materials: foil beige doors with milled kitchen grooves, veneered oak surface, matt laminate in white or black and special Lamino Cleaf Emotion with woven structure in gray

The apartment 2+kk boasts oak parquet and glazed door to the hallway.

Kitchen worktops are made of compact black laminate with a black core with a thickness of 10 mm, while the plates of washbasin cabinets, on the other hand, from white compact laminate with black core.All handles in the house were selected by Veronika Pánková at Viefe.

Black, metal, all -glass doors between the corridors and the main living spaces work as a very distinctive element of interiors.In most cases, the housing of the apartments is without daylight, so these doors were selected for both aesthetic reasons and to illuminate the entrance corridors.

Ceramic tiles with marble decor in two formats were chosen for the bathrooms: 20 × 60 cm tiles in white marble with gray brindle, smaller hexagon tiles in gray surface with white brindle, both from Archtiles.Batteries are from Hansgrohe.

"I had the shower enclosure made to eliminate unsightly details of industrially produced shower enclosures, where there is no shortage of plastic seals, which has a very small lifetime," says architect Pánková.

Apartment 1+kk - sofa is a folding, with the possibility of permanent sleeping.

It also made sure that the solitary elements used in the interiors use the fully given space, so all the seats are made to measure.Some also offer a folding function with the possibility of permanent sleeping.

“Finally, I have to commend Louer craftsmen.Without such clever people, demanding reconstruction, even with the roof superstructure, could not be carried out in such a short time and in such a quality of design.It is always a pleasure for me to come up with the construction and see that the craftsmen hold the details, can read the drawings flawlessly, and in case of ambiguities they call for advice than to do something differently than the design.Such an approach is not a rule on the construction sites, ”adds Veronika Pánková.