The new building of the House above the Castle is located in Bratislava, in the Old Town, near the Bratislava Castle. At the beginning of the 20th century former vineyards and gardens have been developed into an area of family houses. Some of them could be critically acclaimed as notable villas, but quite a big amount of the buildings are just generic copies without any attributes of architectural quality. The plot in question also contained a generic_copy_house from that period. The unsatisfactory technical condition and the impossibility of a reasonable spatial transformation - these factors were assessed by the author and the clients as convincing for the removal of the original building and its replacement with a new one in the original spacial footprint.

The decision to build the new building as a modern wood-based structure, in an energy passive standard speaks tor the mission of the author's studio. House above the Castle brings a historically new benchmark of sustainable and carbon-neutral architecture of the 21 st century to the premium Bratislava location - a passive house made of wood.

The top quality of the building plot is the sloping terrain and its eastern orientation with a fantastic view of the Castle and the whole city panorama. The spatial concept of the new building reflects the street level on the west side of the plot from Smetanova Street - there is a garage integrated into the body of the house with service areas, at garden level facing the garden there is the main living area of the house (in extension to the connecting pergola with terrace), at street level facing the garden there are 3 bedrooms and in the attic there is a small home wellness area with a residence terrace and a breathtaking view of the Castle and the city panorama. The entrance to the house is located unobtrusively on the north side of the house. There are minimal window openings on the south side adjacent to the neighbouring property (from the service areas of the house).

The house is build up as a prefabricated wooden building from the LIGNOTREND system. Part of the strategy of resistance to the effects of climate change is not only an energy passive standard, carbon neutrality achieved through the application of renewable building materials, but also the so-called all-white skin of the house made of cement-fibre boards EQUITONE, which significantly contributes to reducing temperatures both in the exterior (elimination of the so-called heat island) and in the interior of the house. The source of heat and cold is a heat pump. The house is designed in accordance with the principles applied for passive houses and thanks to its compact design it meets the parameters required by this standard.