Family houses
24. Typified family house number 633/3
Zlín, Nad Ovčírnou, U Lomu 633
architect: Vladimír Karfík
finished in: 1935
owner and user: a private person
It is an above standard Bata´s single house of the villa type that was built together with the sample houses for the architecture competition. Vladimír Karfík used this house type with a small staircase hall in many variations mainly for the designs of smaller villas. The layout of the northern building facade evokes the early works of Adolf Loose.
25. Sample family house – type Benš - Jech
Zlín, Nad Ovčírnou, U Lomu 631
architect: Adolf Benš a František Jech
finished in: 1935
owner and user: private persons
One of the four finished sample family houses which won an award in the international architecture competition set by the company Bata in 1935. The competitions goal was to find other types of company houses. Even though none of the winning houses made it to being mass produced, they are by right compound among several European expositions of modern art. The house of a Prague architect was awarded 2nd prize in the competition.
26. Sample family house - type Vítek
Zlín, Nad ovčírnou, U Lomu 627
architect: Antonín Vítek
finished in: 1935
owner and user: private persons
One of the four completed sample family houses which won an award in the international architecture competition set by the company Bata in 1935. The house of the Zlín architect was awarded 4th prize in the competition.
27. Sample family house - type Svedlund
Zlín, Nad Ovčírnou, Nad Ovčírnou VI/2, č.626
architect: Eric Svedlund
finished in: 1935
owner and user: a private person
One of the four finished sample family houses which won an award in the international architecture competition set by the company Bata in 1935.The house of the Swedish architect was awarded 1st prize in the competition. The house was designed with the context of Zlín in mind, a unique feature in Zlín are the windows with lowered windowsill on the ground floor and an extension from the year 1939.
28. Typified family house of the U Lomu colony
Zlín, Nad Ovčírnou, U Lomu 630
architect: Vladimír Karfík
finished in: 1935
owner and user: a private person
A typical Bata single house completed together with the sample houses for the architecture competition. With some modifications this type was very widely used mainly in the part of Zlín called Díly. In the design it is labelled as a single house for a teacher that means that it was considered an above standard way of living.
29. Quarter house with a mansard
Zlín, Letná, Kotěrova 858
architect: Jan Kotěra
finished in (project): 1923 (1922)
owner: private persons
Free standing Bata´s house with four flat units is the oldest preserved example of the Bata´ company building development for the employees. The house was built as a part of a group of mansard houses so called “five houses” that fringed Kotěra Street. These houses were designed for 4 families. The outside ground plan was 17x8 m. Living was situated on two floors and each flat was on a different floor. There was also a henhouse, a sty and a garden that belonged to the flat. It was very economical, and a civilized living solution for the workers.
30. Coated quarter houses
Zlín, Letná, Kotěrova 860, 862, 864, 865, 866, 867, 868, 870, 954, 956, 958, 971, 960, 969, 962, 964
architect: František Lydie Gahura
finished in (project): 1924 (1923)
owner: private persons and the town of Zlín
Free standing Bata houses with four flat units in one of the oldest districts called Letná. The houses were built as a part of a group of fifty houses of a so called “new type”, The group surrounding Kotěra street had originally 10 houses, these were coated houses designed for four families with the outside ground plan of 15, 7x9,15 m. The houses document the early stage of the mass production of flats with simple living disposition with a large kitchen and living room. The flats were fully equipped with sanitary facilities, plumbing and sewerage. Starting with these houses there was a rule established that every new flat for an employee of the Bata Company would have a bathroom and toilet.
31. Quarter houses Letná
Zlín, Letná, Kotěrova 869, 871, 878, 880, 882, 883, 885, 887, 889, 890, 912, 914, 916, 918, 920, 922, 924-926, Mostní 953, 957-1005, 1007
architect: František Lydie Gahura
finished in (project): 1927 (1925)
owner: private persons and the town of Zlín
Mass production of the company residential houses changed Letná into an extensive garden district. The name Letná spread from the original blocks of houses onto the whole developing district. The rows of quarter houses based on the original urbanistic plans with sufficient surrounding land were later on “thickened” with rows of half houses.
32. Family houses - type Ríša I
Zlín, Díly, Příkrá, Pod Vodojemem 2996 - 2999
architect: Vladimír Karfík
finished in: 1936
owners: private persons
This complex of four family houses of a higher standard type bears some features of the villas. The basic cube of the house is complemented by a glass veranda. The structure of the building facades reacts with the orientation towards the cardinal directions. Among Bata´s buildings these types even nowadays represent high utility value.
33. A single house with a garage and a terrace
Zlín, Díly, Slovenská 2811, 2816, 2820, 2825, 2830, 2835, 2840, 2843, 2852, 2853, 2856, 2858, 2864, 2868, Pod Vrškem 2847-2850, 2869,2871,2872
architect: Vladimír Karfík
finished in (project): 1936 (1935)
owners: private persons and the town of Zlín
This complex of 21 Bata houses of the same type composes the development in Slovenská Street. It is an economical type of a single house. On the first floor there is “a mover” window that is accessible from the terrace (designed in case of moving larger pieces of furniture). The elegant architecture of the individual houses is then boosted with their repetitiveness and rotation in the vistas of the street.
34. Experimental cell of a Collective house
Zlín, Díly, třída Tomáše Bati 3756
architect: Jiří Voženílek, Miroslav Drofa
finished in (project): 1950 (1948)
owner: a private person
Free standing experimental family house or more precisely one module of an apartment house. In order to build the collective house many new constructions were meant to be used and it was decided to build the smallest cell from this house as an individual object including all internal facilities. The experience with the building process of the building was then used for the later construction of the collective house. This remarkable building is a significant referential point for the development of post-war architecture in Zlín.
Collective house
The cultural institute called Alternativa is situated at the bottom part of the building. Here lectures are held along with: public readings, poetry evenings, fashion shows and recitals. More about the collective house is mentioned in the section describing Bytové domy.
35. Industrial house with the work shop of Anna Sedláčková
Zlín, Louky, třída Tomáše Bati 227
architect: not traced
finished in (project): 1952 (1947)
owner: the town of Zlin
The current state of the house was established as a built on and extension of an older industrial locksmith’s workshop that was designed in 1936 by the firm of Josef Winkler in Zlín. This was originally a basement less building made out of firebricks with a flat roof on steel beams covered with boards. In 1941 the design for the first floor was made as living quarters with flats for employees and in 1947 a redesign took place – there was only a single flat unit on the first floor.
Sources
- P. Všetečka, Zlín - pasportizace stavebních památek (zadavatel: Úřad města Zlína)
- Konzultant: ing. arch. Pavel Novák, hlavní architekt města Zlína