The family house in Ostopovice was one of the last designs and implementations of the type of individual housing that Bohuslav Fuchs carried out. The first of a series of such buildings was the house designed in 1921 for the writer Jakub Deml in Tasov. The house for Alfons and Vojtěška Sovadina, who were both doctors and worked at the Military Hospital in Brno, was designed and implemented between 1968 and 1971. As can be seen from the preserved planning documentation, Fuchs responded to current world trends in it. However, the unusual, stylistically and visually very interesting building certainly fits into the context of the famous architect's work. The one-story building with a rectangular east-west layout is located in a large, originally garden area that the Sovadina family owned together with other land in Ostopovice. The architect formed the southern facade of the house with two spatial plans, with white-plastered surfaces and receding parts with wooden cladding and dark brown paint. The main facade panel of irregular shape was supplemented with seemingly randomly placed rectangular windows and doors. The composition was visually special with an arched roof, originally designed with a metal roof and a dormer in its western part. Fuchs had used the keel roof type before, in his implementation of villas in the Masaryk district in the 1920s. Decades later, he used it again for the building of the AKA family business in Skryje u Tišnova and for the Vlčina hotel in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm. Although the design of the Ostopovický house followed on from his earlier work, it also responded in many ways to the postmodernist movement that had dominated architecture since the 1960s. According to the plans, the western part of the house was home to the farm, while the eastern part of the house was located half a floor lower due to the sloping terrain, intended for the ground floor hall and the adjacent garage. The living space was divided into a dining and social area, and a staircase and other rooms on the first floor were also located here. Bohuslav Fuchs designed not only the exterior and interior of the house, but also the layout of its surroundings and the garden, the parterre of which consisted of an atrium with a swimming pool, a courtyard and a driveway. The walls between the atrium and the courtyard, as well as the enclosure wall, were made of quarry stone. The Sovadins owned the house until 1988, when they sold it to the current owners, the Prokeš family, who are trying to preserve the house and its surroundings in their original form and layout.

Radana Červená