The beautiful site in Lower Silesia where the house is designed has one drawback: south-west access.
To avoid the obvious functional collision of the driveway and the garden, the driveway was ‘pushed’ into the ground. This prompted the idea of a driveway leading inside to the ground floor level, from underneath the building.
This became possible thanks to the creation of an inner atrium with the driveway in it.
As a result, the building opens up onto all sides with its terraces in an unrestricted manner, and the only way to get into the garden is through the atrium and the house.
This in turn has made it possible to obtain a new spatial model of the house – a reverse of an atrial building. Its structure results from various transformations of a cube.
The beautiful site in Lower Silesia where the house is designed has one drawback: south-west access.
To avoid the obvious functional collision of the driveway and the garden, the driveway was ‘pushed’ into the ground. This prompted the idea of a driveway leading inside to the ground floor level, from underneath the building.
This became possible thanks to the creation of an inner atrium with the driveway in it.
As a result, the building opens up onto all sides with its terraces in an unrestricted manner, and the only way to get into the garden is through the atrium and the house.
This in turn has made it possible to obtain a new spatial model of the house – a reverse of an atrial building. Its structure results from various transformations of a cube.
The beautiful site in Lower Silesia where the house is designed has one drawback: south-west access.
To avoid the obvious functional collision of the driveway and the garden, the driveway was ‘pushed’ into the ground. This prompted the idea of a driveway leading inside to the ground floor level, from underneath the building.
This became possible thanks to the creation of an inner atrium with the driveway in it.
As a result, the building opens up onto all sides with its terraces in an unrestricted manner, and the only way to get into the garden is through the atrium and the house.
This in turn has made it possible to obtain a new spatial model of the house – a reverse of an atrial building. Its structure results from various transformations of a cube.
The beautiful site in Lower Silesia where the house is designed has one drawback: south-west access.
To avoid the obvious functional collision of the driveway and the garden, the driveway was ‘pushed’ into the ground. This prompted the idea of a driveway leading inside to the ground floor level, from underneath the building.
This became possible thanks to the creation of an inner atrium with the driveway in it.
As a result, the building opens up onto all sides with its terraces in an unrestricted manner, and the only way to get into the garden is through the atrium and the house.
This in turn has made it possible to obtain a new spatial model of the house – a reverse of an atrial building. Its structure results from various transformations of a cube.
The beautiful site in Lower Silesia where the house is designed has one drawback: south-west access.
To avoid the obvious functional collision of the driveway and the garden, the driveway was ‘pushed’ into the ground. This prompted the idea of a driveway leading inside to the ground floor level, from underneath the building.
This became possible thanks to the creation of an inner atrium with the driveway in it.
As a result, the building opens up onto all sides with its terraces in an unrestricted manner, and the only way to get into the garden is through the atrium and the house.
This in turn has made it possible to obtain a new spatial model of the house – a reverse of an atrial building. Its structure results from various transformations of a cube.
The structure of the building it’s the effect of transformation of a “cube”, what gave all the walls, floors and ceilings including the internal aatrium and terraces.
This way of forming the structure of the building defined from the beginning the emerging architecture with the materials assigned to it. Concrete has been assigned to the transformed cube and timber to the additional elements.
| name: | aatrial house |
| author: | robert konieczny |
| collaboration: | marlena wolnik |
| łukasz prażuch | |
| structural engineering: | krzysztof anioł |
| client: | private |
| site area: | 10 057 m2 |
| usable floor area: | 660m2 |
| volume: | 2 055 m3 |
| design: | 2002-2003 |
| construction: | 2003-2006 |
| photographs: | juliusz sokołowski |
| olo studio | |
| awards: | best polish building, polityka magazine plebiscite 2012 |
| highly recommended private house, waf 2008 |
international architecture awards 2008
leonardo, grand prix 2007
nomination for mies van der rohe award 2006
wan’s house of the year award 2006
| publications: | design peak 2013 |
słynne wille polski 2013
mark magazine 02/03 2013
world architecture II 2012
ina international new architecture 06 2012
iakov chernikhov international prize 10 2011
teberia 10 2011
design alive 01 2011
1000 x european architecture 12 2011
haus & auto 2011
x-house 2011
objekt 09/12 2010
arch manual 2010
świat rezydencji wnętrz & ogrodów 04 2010
house traders 04/05 2010
fasády 03 2010
at magazine 11 2009
casas patio 2009
architectural & design-family housing 2009
architektura-murator 06 2009
the phaidon atlas of 21st century world architecture 2009
asb 04 2009
magazine one 02 2009
świat rezydencji wnętrz & ogrodów 02 2009
atrium 01/02 2009
exeptional single-family homes 01 2009
die neue villa 10 2008
strire a pose 10 2008
ville case prefabricate 10 2008
interni 09 2008
casas & negocios 09/10 2008
hauser 05/06 2008
prestige design 04 2008
arquitectura&construcao 01/02 2008
archivolta 01 2008
architekt 01 2008
arhitectura 12 2007/01 2008
a&c publishing 2008
housing 12 2007
arquitectura plus 10 2007
abstract 07 2009
arquitectura plus 09 2007
mark magazine 06 2007
centras 05 2007
blueprint 04 2007
octogon 03 2007
archivolta 02 2007
architektura-murator 02 2007
dom & wnętrze 01 2007
new architecture in japan and poland-directions 12 2005
“emerging polish architecture” 05 2005
3 2 1 new architecture in japan and poland 10 2004
archivolta 07/09 2004
| exhibitions: | architects at the piano, katowice 2016 |
| famous polish villas, katowice 01 2014 |
famous villas in visegrad group and slovenia, ostrava 04/05 2013
famous polish villas, wroclaw 03/05 2013
silesian university of technology 10 2012
polish art in berlin 11/12 2012
logic of space, nowy sącz 11/12 2011
v4 family houses, beirut 05 2011
architecture week 2010, prague 10 2010
architecture week 2010, praga, czechy 10 2010
kwk promes exhibition, ostrawa 01/02 2010
wild wild east, hamburg 09/11 2009
polish architects exhibition, london 09 2009
„new world architecture”, athens 02/04 2009
„new world architecture”, florencja 10/11 2008
3_2_1_new architecture in japan and poland 2004