We are team of architects with over thirty years experience working on healthcare, commercial and residential projects in Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Romania and the UK.
After years of long-term, large scale institutional projects we turned our attention to sustainable housing design. In our work we follow the three objectives:
economic objective: finding solutions for fighting increasingly high cost of living and using the habitable space in terms of heating / cooling and water usage.
healthcare objective: principle of the design to use natural building materials and installations systems that protect the habitants' health in long term impact.
environment objective: taking care of selection of the building materials and technologies that are not harmful to the climate and minimise the carbon footprint of the construction.
We use our former design experience to implement the newest technologies in terms of all-type house installations like heating and cooling (HVAC) , water supply and sewage, electrics with the special attention to the possibility of using renewable resources . In our healthcare buildings in the past we tried to create space that supported patient's recovery. Now we try to design homes that can protect people's health and prevent from illnesses. In this approach we do not turn our back to the environment but we also try to create houses in symbiosis with the climate of their specific geographical location. This understanding of the local conditions allows us to use the location's natural resources.
Climate change and new regulations and requirements in construction make the design of a modern house complicated. And yet, we want a house to become a home. The only way to achieve that is to follow and borrow from nature.
We are fully committed to the use of energy-saving technologies and natural materials and resources in building.
We have tested timber and hempcrete (lime and hemp shiv) constructions, we design HBE (laminated timber) structures and perlite blocks (made from expanded volcanic rock) houses. All these materials have zero or minimum carbon footprint. Walls built from these materials can breath and provide thermal and acoustic insulation. They do not emit harmful substances to the air or water. Installations systems that we introduce to our projects are designed to use renewable resources and to save energy used in the house.
In our opinion this is the right direction to go in the situation of dramatic climate change that influences us economically and still live healthy lives in harmony with nature .
