Residential complex Villinki

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Residential complex Villinki

Financing
Promotion and production

Main objectives of the project

The residential complex consists of four residential buildings, kindergarten and commercial services. It frames a structured public space in form of main communication axis surrounded by green areas and small playground. Publicly open community garden with fruit-trees and barbecue is integral part of the complex.

Date

  • 2015: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: Matej Grebert
  • Architect: Miroslav Catlos
  • Architect: Juraj Benetin
  • Architect: Peter Moravcik

Location

Country/Region: Bratislava, Slovakia

Description

The residential complex is situated on the periphery of the Slovak capital on the edge of a large housing estate from 1970s and the fabric of scattered family houses. It lies on a hillside with southern exposure and an attractive view. The complex consists of four residential buildings with 64 mainly 1- and 2-bedroom apartments, which are complemented by kindergarten and rentable spaces for services and offices. Below the surface the parking garage for residents and visitors is situated. The central longitudinal public space is clearly articulated in terms of sloping ground and runs into the community garden. The private gardens that are part of the ground floor apartments run into the community garden as well. On the top floors of all four residential buildings are roof apartments with large green terrace, designed as a "house on a house".
The residential complex tries to solve the typical problem of periphery, where new developments meet the modernist housing estates and scraps of original rural settlements without solving the relation to the surroundings and without creating any added value in the form of public space and services. Our aim was to eliminate such negative effects of densification and exploitation of the territory. We have designed the complex in a form of pavilions that articulate the open spaces in correspondence with the urban planning principles of the housing estate embodied in the semi-enclosed courtyards. In the same time the new complex reflects the low building structure of the surrounding family houses. Unlike neighbouring monofunctional new developments the complex is hybrid structure that integrates housing, kindergarten and rentable spaces for commercial use. The residential houses are of hybrid nature when associating three different types of apartments all with large balconies, terraces or gardens with attractive views. The complex brings spatial and functional diversity to the city periphery and integrates it into the urban context.
Residential complex is realized as a reinforced concrete skeleton with brick infill. Skeleton enabled variability in ground plan solutions and integration the residential function and facilities in one building. At the same time it allowed the implementation of large glassed walls on the south facade overlooking the valley. Plastered facades surface refers to the housing blocks from 1970s and the neighbouring family houses. The stronger colours used in the housing complex help in the same time to distinguish it from the surrounding. Plaster is complemented by the wooden shutters – shades. Their elementary geometry refers to the picturesque back yards of the neighbouring old family houses. Southern exposed façades are in the same time framed in to compact stereotomic frames, which are visible especially in long-distance views on the exposed area. The choice of a simple material solution is also a direct result of the construction costs limit and subsequent marketability of apartments. The lower demands on maintenance correspond to the general low cost strategy.

Residential Complex Condominium Devín

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Residential Complex Condominium Devín

Financing
Promotion and production
Ownership and tenure

Main objectives of the project

Housing complex in frame of the historical village structure, Bratislava-Devín, Slovakia

Date

  • 2017: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: Tomas Cechvala
  • Architect: Peter Moravcik

Location

Continent: Europe
Country/Region: Slovakia

Description

Condominium Devín is housing complex in frame of the historical village structure situated in the Bratislava-Devín District, in the protection zone of the national cultural mo-nument - Devín Castle. Family houses create together a system of intimate spaces. However, on the side of the street, houses try to create a suitable mantinel for a pleasant stay in the public space. From the street, the facades of the houses are irregularly graded, making it a colorful vista and exterior spaces. New alley is integrated in the existing system of a streets of the old village under the castle rock.
New residential neighborhood in the village intravilan. A smaller scale of shared housing, a direct confrontation with the surrounding urban and historical context. Creation in a complex cultural and physical environment.

The resulting structure has formed a multi-stakeholder dialogue. Architects have tried to find a penetration between often conflicting requirements and to bring a slightly different view of housing. As a result, there is a rugged "villainous" residential structure with well-differentiated semi-public, public and private spaces, which gives the inhabitants plenty of intimacy.

We see that there is a "fair mess" in this project. There are flat and sloping roofs. Oriented sometimes by a street shield, sometimes on the other side of the street. The individual objects do not respect any unambiguous regulation applicable to all houses, no regulation, no prescribed uniformity. In spite of this controlled chaos, the result is a very interesting composition. Not only in terms of "high architecture". The result is an natural growing urban structure.
The objects have vertical load-bearing structures made of hebel brickwork. Horizontal structures are made of monolithic reinforced concrete ceilings. Prefabricated structures are made of reinforced concrete prefabricated structures, anchored through thermal insulated baskets (so-called iso-hulls). The foundations were made on base strips and thin reinforced concrete slab. Finishing facades are made of thin and coarse-grained plasters. Aluminum windows were planted in window openings.

State Housing Development Fund of Slovakia

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State Housing Development Fund of Slovakia

Policies and regulations
Financing
Promotion and production
Ownership and tenure

Main objectives of the project

The State Housing Development Fund (SHDF) of Slovakia was established in 1996 as a revolving fund to finance the priorities of the Government of Slovakia defined in the State Housing Policy Concept. It is an independent entity supervised by the Ministry of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic.

Date

  • 1996:

Stakeholders

  • Promotor: Štátny fond rozvoja bývania (SFRB)

Location

Continent: Europe
Country/Region: Slovakia

Description

The SHDF provides long-term loans on favourable terms. These cover up to 100 per cent of housing acquisition costs and are available for terms of up to 40 years at interest rates of between zero and 2 per cent. The loans are available for the:

Construction or purchase of dwellings by qualified households – available to people with a disability, families with young people and former residents of orphanages
Renovation or modernization in multi-apartment buildings and family houses
Construction or purchase of social rented dwellings by municipalities and non-profit organizations, and construction of for-profit rented housing by private companies
Construction and refurbishment of social service facilities by municipalities or private companies
Acquisition and servicing of land for social housing by municipalities and also land used by for-profit rented housing by private companies
Acquisition of a lodging-houses by municipalities or by private companies.

SHDF has made a significant contribution to improving the supply and quality of housing in Slovakia. There was a serious shortage of good quality housing, particularly for low-income households, following transition of Slovakia in the early 1990s. This was due to low levels of new housing supply from the market and the privatization of the majority of rented dwellings, which had previously been owned by the state during the communist period.[1] Between its establishment and 2016, the fund supported the provision of 40,858 social housing units, which is one of the highest rates of new social housing output achieved in post-communist countries during that period.[2] Between its establishment and 2018, the SHDF has funded or co-funded the renovation of 25 per cent of the total Slovakian housing stock. Take-up of its loans by municipalities is helped by the fact that these are not included in general government debt.

SHDF is also significant in institutional terms and in terms of the housing finance expertise it can provide. Its extensive experience in financing housing meant that it was ideally placed to act as a special purpose financial intermediary to administer the EU JESSICA programme for energy-efficient renovation of dwellings when it was established in 2013

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