Coll Coll Designs Villa Sophia in Prague as a Smart Home
January 1, 2021
By Peter Webster
At Villa Sophia, a family home and office in Prague, the garage practically serves as an entrance hall to the house.
The idea of forming a collaborative of architects, designers, and related professionals first came to Krištof Hanzlík while studying at London’s Bartlett School of Architecture. Returning to his Czech homeland, he teamed up with Marie
Davidová, a graduate of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and in 2008 founded Coll Coll as an open platform for sharing ideas and pursuing personal agendas. “Since then, many others have joined for one project or a longer collaboration, and many have left,” Hanzlík explains. And while the nonhierarchical collective’s structure may be somewhat idealistic, “It has proved viable for an office of up to 20 people,” he reports.