AIT Award - Best in Interior and Architecture 2018

PANTOGRAPH STUDIO ACCOMPLISHED STAR SHAPED HUNTING LODGE

5 radially arranged gabled roof houses around the central courtyard form a Hunting lodge in Carpathian Mountains designed by Bratislava based design studio PANTOGRAPH.

Architects Tomas Auxt, Miro Hrusovsky, Linda Hrusovska and Peter Kozusko in collaboration with Peter Hudac and Michal Zabransky created a 220sqm retreat for local hunting association an hour’s drive from the capital of Slovakia.

Compact, traditional, archetypal volume distributes a rich program in a composition that deliberately reduces the visual volume of the house and moves it into a lightweight category.

On the contrary to the delicate volume of the house is its robust, rough and very masculine expression embedded in a monochromatic wooden cladding applied to all walls and roofs.

This unifying burned skin does not show any decoration or ornamentation and the default appearance of the house is hostile and monolithic.

Fortification-like appearance can be transformed by use of sliding walls, set of foldable window shutters and large pivoting gates into an open pavilion-like space in the landscape.

A small house provides rich composition of spaces with various individual characters and program: Stainless steel clad autopsy like room for meat processing is used by brave hunters only. The rest of the squad usually enjoys cheerful and dirty event hall that can get packed with 60 hunters, provides fireplaces, kitchen and bar that faces open air living room - a place to share all the best stories of the day.

In a contrast, there is a romantic apartment that provides clean and tight micro space of outstanding precision of construction details due to use of prefab CLT wooden panels.
The scheme combines traditional expectations of hunters and design desire of its architects. This is reflected in a tension and contrast from the whole to the last detail.