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Post Office Sněžka by Hut Architektury Martin Rajnis
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Aug 3, 2020

It’s hard to find a more difficult place for building a house than the peak of Sněžka Mountain. Wind speeds reach up to 250 km/h, winter temperatures hit record freezes, it is the most strictly protected zone of a national park.

How to build in such a locality without spending excess money, and create a house that would remain in the minds of the people who visit? This building designed by Hut Architektury Martin Rajnis is a cousin of the storage depots of Amundsen’s or Scott’s polar expeditions or the houses that you see in Greenland or the Spitzbergen Islands.

It enters on tiptoes into the national park: it is of wood and glass, standing on delicate metal supports. In the harshest winters, it is completely closed off behind interior insulation slabs – shadowboxes – and exterior blinds, which protect it from flying bits of rock and ice.

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@zaxarovcom
Aug 3, 2020

It’s hard to find a more difficult place for building a house than the peak of Sněžka Mountain. Wind speeds reach up to 250 km/h, winter temperatures hit record freezes, it is the most strictly protected zone of a national park.

How to build in such a locality without spending excess money, and create a house that would remain in the minds of the people who visit? This building designed by Hut Architektury Martin Rajnis is a cousin of the storage depots of Amundsen’s or Scott’s polar expeditions or the houses that you see in Greenland or the Spitzbergen Islands.

It enters on tiptoes into the national park: it is of wood and glass, standing on delicate metal supports. In the harshest winters, it is completely closed off behind interior insulation slabs – shadowboxes – and exterior blinds, which protect it from flying bits of rock and ice.

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