The Avala House is a single-story space built over an existing southward inclining orchard garden in a pastural landscape on the Avala mountain near Belgrade, Serbia. The house is a case study on how design can turn sufficiency into a desirable form for living. 

Every element of the house emphasises the performance of structure and space, providing either weight or lightness at specific points, expanse or contraction at others. There is a kind of directness that makes the house accessible to all.  

The owner, a local craftsman, invited TEN to design, develop and build the house. This opened the process into a genuine conversation on the process of construction, the future use and practical and necessary maintenance. 

The formal expression demonstrates the human factor in the production of dwelling, extending the dialogue originating from the pioneers of Yugoslavian Modernism. The making of Avala House in the form of the ideal contemporary home uses everyday materials, formed personally by the skills of local makers to create a product of regional significance.

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