The new tennis courts and facilities for the members of the club TK LTC 1927 Prague – Michle are located in the area of the former Michelské pekárny, which is now being transformed into an attractive urban location.

The area consists of a tennis club building, seven tennis courts and one training court. Five courts are classic clay courts, two courts and the training court have artificial surface. The architectural and urban design is minimalist, the area is unified by pure expressive elements such as basalt facade slabs or exposed concrete.

The building with the clubhouse and all the facilities has a plan shape of an irregular trapezoid, making the most of the irregular shape of the site. The floor plan also determines the material solution. The pitched roof falls steeply to the east, cutting the house into a higher two-storey section to the west and a lower single-storey section to the east. On the second floor, a residence terrace cuts into the mass of the house, offering a comfortable view of all the tennis courts. Maximizing all possible views and comfortably watching tournaments is important.

The compactness of the clubhouse structure is emphasised by the uniform material solution of the external shell. In fact, all facades and the roof plane are constructed with a ventilated double skin system with Rockpanel natural basalt facade panels as the visual outer layer. This is a unique solution; hardened basalt boards have never been used for cladding a roof cladding structure before.

The central space of the house is the clubhouse, which is conceived as the centre of the social life of the club, a space for meeting and as a place for relaxation. Its significance and connection to the site is enhanced by the flat glazing in the direction of the tennis courts and also by the elevation of the space due to the rising plane of the roof structure. The functional use of the building is complemented by a block of sanitary facilities and changing rooms, a relaxation or training room, a caretaker’s flat and technical facilities of the building. The interior cleverly recycles the furnishings of the original clubhouse.

All paved surfaces and roads within the fenced area are constructed as concrete, the remaining space is grassed and supplemented with planted trees and shrubs to form a hedge around the boundary of the site.