Studio: CMC architects
Author: Vít Máslo
David Richard Chisholm
Social media: www.facebook.com/cmcarchitects
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Design team: Evžen Dub, Lead Architect / Partner-in-Charge
Daniel Šimpach, Project Architect
Jan Hřebíček, Architect
Lenka Dřevická, Architect
Josef Knotek, Architect
Client: CREAM Real Estate
Project location: Čeladná 990, 739 12 Čeladná
Project country: Czech Republic
Completion year: 2019
Built-up Area: 2841 m²
Gross Floor Area: 9749 m²
Usable Floor Area: 7326 m²
Photographer: BoysPlayNice
Collaborator Chief project engineer: CHVÁLEK ATELIER
Managing contractor: H1K
Reinforced concrete construction: Generální dodávky staveb
Windows, alucobond facade: CLEARMONT
Carpenter works: Lukáš Hrabovský
Mechanical electrical plumbing [MEP]: MORYS
Floor surfaces: Floor Experts
General interior contractor: BRICK, realizace interiérů
Audio-video: VT project
Custom Built-in Furniture: DŘEVODÍLO
Mobile Furniture: KONSEPTI
Design Lighting Fixtures: bomma
Door Handles: M&T
Kitchen Design: Miele
Interior Concrete Glaze: KEIM
Aluminium Windows: ALUPROF
About studio
CMC architects is an international, 25-person studio of environmental design, urbanism and architecture, based in Prague, Czech Republic. CMC’s work includes a successful, award-winning seventeen-year history in the holistic design of many types of projects in various scales and levels of complexity. The studio has worked in twelve different cities in seven countries, including the Czech Republic, Germany, Montenegro, Romania, the United States, Ukraine, and Vietnam.
CMC is a unique and carefully assembled team, which has collaborated internationally with world-renowned engineers, artists, and architects. CMC worked with Ateliers Jean Nouvel from France, Gehry Partners, and ASYMPTOTE, from the United States, MVRDV, from Holland, and, ARUP, from the UK. This international and world-class exposure has created a wealth of experience and greatly expanded CMC’s knowledge base for the design. Partners David R. Chisholm and Vit Maslo combine for over 40 years of professional practice and are ecological designers of sustainable projects and environments.
David Chisholm and Vit Maslo are involved in academic development now for over ten years, serving as sponsors, teachers and guest critics at the ARCHIP School of Architecture, the Czech technical faculties in Prague and Liberec. CMC partners Chisholm and Maslo were also nominated to the Czech Academy of Architecture in 2008, and, were made Founding Members of the Czech Green Building Council (CZGBC) in 2009. CMC supports the DOX Gallery of Contemporary Art, the reSITE Festival of Urban Design, and, the FOTOSFERA photography festival held yearly in Prague.
CMC philosophy holds that giving to education, to art and to the community are all investments in the future of the built environment and the dynamic of change.
On the Eastern edge of the Czech Republic, near the Slovak and Polish borders, the village of Čeladná is surrounded by the beautiful landscape of the Beskydy Mountains. Čeladná has grown in recent years with a number of significant buildings, including hotels and resort-type spas. The latest addition in the area is the Tee House apartment project located in the golf and equestrian complex.
The aim of the investor was to supplement the offer of services of this area with accommodation facilities and wellness. The authors of the architectural solution were inspired by the Beskydy landscape and also by the clear orthogonal division of the purpose-built buildings of the original equestrian complex.
The new buildings are configured in an ‘L’ shape, and are in the approximate position of the former purely utilitarian buildings previously occupying the site. The new Čeladná buildings respect the original structure and orthogonal division of this place, and urban configuration is also used to enhance the views from the individual residences. The rooms on the typical floors include generously arranged loggias, which are a distinctive architectural element on the facades of the buildings.
This is further emphasized by the setback of the basement floor, which makes the main volume of the building stand out. The upper ‘loft’ part of the buildings is designed as a recess, with a significantly overhanging transversely ‘folded roof’. The visually strong architectural element in the roof shape is designed to reflect the relief of the surrounding mountainous landscape.
The volumetric design of the buildings is emphasized by the effort to use as few materials and colors as possible on the facade of the buildings. The intended concept of the wooden ‘cut-outs and surfaces, contrasting the base of the dark façade, is achieved through the materials palette – Siberian larch, dark grey ALUCOBOND, dark grey plaster, and exposed concrete. The pure geometry of the buildings thus becomes a striking part of the surrounding Beskydy landscape.
