Avala House
A family house on a steep plot below Avala. Three board-marked concrete volumes step down the slope, so every floor opens straight onto the garden.
Beli Potok, Belgrade
2024
410 m²
Completed
Private
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The plot drops eleven metres from the road to the edge of the forest. Instead of levelling it, we split the house into three volumes and let each one sit at its own height. Bedrooms are at the top, next to the street. The kitchen and living room are in the middle, with a terrace on the roof of the studio below.
The brief
Two working parents, three children and a grandmother who stays for months at a time. They wanted rooms that could be closed off in winter, and a ground floor she could use without stairs.
Materials
Board-marked concrete cast in pine formwork, oak windows and terrazzo floors poured on site. The concrete was left as it came out of the boards. You can still read the grain of every plank.
Energy
Ground-source heat pump, 30 cm of insulation behind the inner leaf and triple glazing on the north face. In the first winter their heating bills were lower than in their old 90 m² flat in Voždovac.