Under the Star Game Reserve Completes Libocká Street Historic Area
Under the Star Game Reserve by Martin Cenek Architecture in Prague, Czech Republic, features three apartments set along the edge of a historic game reserve. Designed in 2022, it incorporates exposed concrete and natural oak veneer interiors, with outermost houses sporting hipped roofs.
Libocká Street, which borders the historic Hv?zda (Star) Game Reserve on the north side and slopes down from Pet?iny to Libocká Pond and Litovický Creek, is not very welcoming at first glance. From the south side it is defined by fragmented original terraced housing supplemented by the remains of grand suburban villas from the late 19th century. Its northern edge is formed in part of its length by a terrain break and a downward slope. Just above the point where the street turns and slopes sharply towards the church of St. Fabian and Sebastian in Liboc, there is an interesting, large and formerly almost impenetrably overgrown plot of land, with several atypical features. The height difference between the street and the base of the Star Nature Reserve wall that encloses it on the south side is as much as fourteen metres, as a near-vertical sandstone cliff between eight and ten metres high divides the land about halfway down.
The position of the houses was based on a desire to appropriately complete the existing fabric and composition of buildings in an area that has a rural character, with houses winding along the street and following the terrain’s contours. The proposed triplet of ...
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