{"id":480392,"date":"2025-12-30T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480392\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:19:17","slug":"studio-plys-revamps-borova-lada-cottage-outside-bohemian-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480392\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Ply\u0161 revamps Borov\u00e1 Lada Cottage outside Bohemian Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Architecture practice Studio Ply\u0161 has renovated a 19th-century cottage<\/a> at the edge of the Bohemian Forest in the Czech Republic<\/a>, repairing its original stone<\/a> and timber structure with additions in plywood, concrete and fibre cement.<\/p>\n

Named Borov\u00e1 Lada Cottage after the nearby village, the 333-square-metre home was overhauled to improve its structural integrity and maximise space by inserting living areas into its attic.<\/p>\n

\"Borov\u00e1Studio Ply\u0161 has renovated a cottage in the Czech Republic<\/p>\n

According to Studio Ply\u0161<\/a>, the cottage’s original structure had been subject to a series of unsuitable repairs in the ’80s and ’90s, requiring the practice to introduce new foundations and roof reinforcements.<\/p>\n

The Prague-based studio repaired the building fabric with new materials such as steel, concrete and fibre cement, which are left exposed to deliberately highlight the different layers of the building’s history.<\/p>\n

\"CzechBorov\u00e1 Lada Cottage was overhauled to improve its structural integrity<\/p>\n

“The design was guided by respect for the building’s layers \u2013 its material presence and history,” founders Lenka V\u00e1vra and Petr V\u00e1vra told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“Removing damaging interventions became an opportunity to weave a new structure into the fabric, one that stands alongside the old while amplifying its inherent qualities,” they added.<\/p>\n

\"Borov\u00e1Its metal-shingle roof references a traditional zmijovka hat<\/p>\n

Borov\u00e1 Lada Cottage’s original compartmentalised floor plan has been retained, with the ground floor divided by the original chunky stone walls.<\/p>\n

However, at the cottage’s southern end, greater reinforcement was required to support the roof, which led to the construction of three board-marked concrete columns, cast in-situ alongside its new foundations.<\/p>\n

\"LivingA porthole window has been transformed into a window seat<\/p>\n

This gable end, where new meets old, became the focal point of the home, with a living area connected to the kitchen through a large opening and to the garden through full-height sliding glass doors and a covered terrace.<\/p>\n

Externally, the gaps between the concrete columns have been clad in dark timber panels, incorporating matching doors and motorised shutters on exposed steel rails that conceal two porthole windows.<\/p>\n

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In Borov\u00e1 Lada Cottage’s living room, the largest of these porthole windows has been padded internally to create a sit-in reading nook within the plywood-clad wall.<\/p>\n

Above, the reinforcement of the original roof trusses with steel beams allowed for the insertion of skylit attic spaces, treated as a standalone structure that Studio Ply\u0161 described as being “quite literally screwed into the building”.<\/p>\n

\"Borov\u00e1A habitable space has been created in the roof of Borov\u00e1 Lada Cottage<\/p>\n

Timber beams clad in fibre cement boards, which stop short of the gabled ceilings, frame a more communal, central space, while the bedroom units sit at the edge of the plan, beneath sloping steel and timber beams.<\/p>\n

“The new layout supports multigenerational living, with individual units and shared spaces linked by a central staircase,” Lenka and Petr said. “The inserted structure houses sanitary facilities, carefully separated from the historic fabric to preserve its vapour\u2011open character.”<\/p>\n

\"AtticA bedroom slots beneath timber beams<\/p>\n

Borov\u00e1 Lada Cottage is topped by a metal-shingle roof, the edge of which is finished with a zigzag pattern that references a zmijovka \u2013 a traditional type of Czech wool cap.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the Czech Republic, local studio Atelier Hajn\u00fd recently converted a derelict 1970s hut near Prague into a timber-lined country retreat<\/a>, while Mj\u00f6lk Architekti and Marie Vondr\u00e1kov\u00e1 rebuilt a fire-ravaged pool house in Liberec<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Tomas Slavik<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Architecture practice Studio Ply\u0161 has renovated a 19th-century cottage at the edge of the Bohemian Forest in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,217686,217685,14609,1033,171,6029,12216,25017,92915,92916,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-480392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-cottages","11":"tag-czech-houses","12":"tag-czech-republic","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-houses","16":"tag-renovations","17":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","18":"tag-sectionall","19":"tag-sectionarchitecture","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115809430132648376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}