Post Office Sn??ka / e-MRAK
It?s hard to find a more difficult place for building a house than the peak of Mt. Sn??ka. Wind speeds reach up to 250 km/h, winter temperatures hit record freezes, it is the most strictly protected zone of a national park.
© Andrea Thiel Lhotakova
Architects: e-MRAK
Location: Sn??ka, Czech Republic
Lead Architects: Martin Rajni?, Patrik Hoffman, Jan Mach, Tom Plzenský, David KubÃk, Josef Franc
Area: 112.0 m2
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Andrea Thiel Lhotakova
Courtesy of e-MRAK
From the architect. It?s hard to find a more difficult place for building a house than the peak of Mt. Sn??ka. Wind speeds reach up to 250 km/h, winter temperatures hit record freezes, it is the most strictly protected zone of a national park.
Site Plan
How to build in such a locality without spending excess money, and create a house that would remain in the minds of the people who visit" This building is a cousin of the storage depots of Amundsen?s or Scott?s polar expeditions or the houses that you see in Greenland or the Spitzbergen Islands.
Courtesy of e-MRAK
It enters on tiptoes into the national park: it is of wood and glass, standing on delicate metal supports. In the harshest winters, it is completely closed off behind interior insulation slabs ? shadowboxes ? and exterior blinds, which protect it from flying bits of rock and ice.
© Andrea Thie...
© Andrea Thiel Lhotakova
Architects: e-MRAK
Location: Sn??ka, Czech Republic
Lead Architects: Martin Rajni?, Patrik Hoffman, Jan Mach, Tom Plzenský, David KubÃk, Josef Franc
Area: 112.0 m2
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Andrea Thiel Lhotakova
Courtesy of e-MRAK
From the architect. It?s hard to find a more difficult place for building a house than the peak of Mt. Sn??ka. Wind speeds reach up to 250 km/h, winter temperatures hit record freezes, it is the most strictly protected zone of a national park.
Site Plan
How to build in such a locality without spending excess money, and create a house that would remain in the minds of the people who visit" This building is a cousin of the storage depots of Amundsen?s or Scott?s polar expeditions or the houses that you see in Greenland or the Spitzbergen Islands.
Courtesy of e-MRAK
It enters on tiptoes into the national park: it is of wood and glass, standing on delicate metal supports. In the harshest winters, it is completely closed off behind interior insulation slabs ? shadowboxes ? and exterior blinds, which protect it from flying bits of rock and ice.
© Andrea Thie...
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