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How can we live among nature without destroying it? See this Czech holiday home

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Stempel & Tesar Architekti designed and constructed The House That Opens to the Sun. - Filip Slapal
The house is a 157-sq-m cabin in Malé Kyšice, Czech Republic, on the edge of the Křivoklát woods. - Filip Slapal
Located in an area popular for weekend cottages because of its proximity to nature, the architects not only considered the surrounding environment when highlighting it in the design of the home but also in the home’s built-in environmentally friendly interventions. - Filip Slapal

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Client
Private
Chief Project Engineer
Wooden Construction Statics
Floor Area
157 sq-m

Energy- and resource-saving interventions built into this Czech Republic cottage demonstrate that living close to nature doesn’t need to mean destruction.

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