The most essential item for our clients was acquiring the feeling of maximum security. That influenced an outlook and performance of a building. Its solid is a rectangular prism in which parts of the walls are movable.
As an effect when the house opens for the garden, eastern and western side walls move towards an exterior fence, creating a pre-entering area. After passing the gate one cannot enter the house or the garden any other way but through the main door, waiting in that safety zone, for its opening.
The innovation of this consists in an interference of the movable walls into the urban structure of the property. As a result when the house is closed (at night for example) the safety zone is limited to the house outline.
During the day as a result of opening of the walls it is expanded of the garden surrounding the house.
The most essential item for our clients was acquiring the feeling of maximum security. That influenced an outlook and performance of a building. Its solid is a rectangular prism in which parts of the walls are movable.
As an effect when the house opens for the garden, eastern and western side walls move towards an exterior fence, creating a pre-entering area. After passing the gate one cannot enter the house or the garden any other way but through the main door, waiting in that safety zone, for its opening.
The innovation of this consists in an interference of the movable walls into the urban structure of the property. As a result when the house is closed (at night for example) the safety zone is limited to the house outline.
During the day as a result of opening of the walls it is expanded of the garden surrounding the house.
The most essential item for our clients was acquiring the feeling of maximum security. That influenced an outlook and performance of a building. Its solid is a rectangular prism in which parts of the walls are movable.
As an effect when the house opens for the garden, eastern and western side walls move towards an exterior fence, creating a pre-entering area. After passing the gate one cannot enter the house or the garden any other way but through the main door, waiting in that safety zone, for its opening.
The innovation of this consists in an interference of the movable walls into the urban structure of the property. As a result when the house is closed (at night for example) the safety zone is limited to the house outline.
During the day as a result of opening of the walls it is expanded of the garden surrounding the house.
The most essential item for our clients was acquiring the feeling of maximum security. That influenced an outlook and performance of a building. Its solid is a rectangular prism in which parts of the walls are movable.
As an effect when the house opens for the garden, eastern and western side walls move towards an exterior fence, creating a pre-entering area. After passing the gate one cannot enter the house or the garden any other way but through the main door, waiting in that safety zone, for its opening.
The innovation of this consists in an interference of the movable walls into the urban structure of the property. As a result when the house is closed (at night for example) the safety zone is limited to the house outline.
During the day as a result of opening of the walls it is expanded of the garden surrounding the house.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
Accomplishment of this idea required the use of technically complex solutions. The most significant are the sliding walls (both 2,2 m high, 22 and 15 m long), which allow to interfere with the urban structure and determine the safe zone of the plot.
They are not the only mobile elements of the building. Apart from these, there are large shutters 2,8 m high, with a width ranging up to 3,5 m, opening up to 180 degrees.
The southern elevation is closed by an enormous roll-down gate of 14 and 6 m manufactured by a company normally supplying shipyards and air companies. It is made with white anodized aluminum which makes it possible to function as a movie projection screen.
An additional element is a basculed fragment of the wall, falling down to 90 degrees. It leads to the roof terrace of the pool pavilion, from which a beautifull view opens for the surrounding space.
| name: | safe house, near warsaw |
| author: | robert konieczny |
| collaboration: | łukasz zadrzyński |
| marcin jojko | |
| interior design: | magdalena radalowicz-zadrzyńska |
| structural engineering: | grzegorz komarus |
| aleksandra pałach | |
| client: | private |
| site area: | 2500 m2 |
| usable floor area: | 567 m2 |
| volume: | 1719 m3 |
| design: | 2004-2005 |
| construction: | 2005-2008 |
| photographs: | olo studio |
| awards: | safe house in the final of waf awards 2009 |
| nomination for mies van der rohe award 2008 | |
| publications: | ktirio 2014 |
modus 02 2014
dezeen book of ideas 2013
design peak 2013
architectural inspirations 07 2013
słynne wille polski 2013
european style 2012
stavebnictvo a byvanie 06 2012
świat architektury 05 2012
iakov chernikhov international prize 10 2011
rem diseño magazine 12 2011
teberia 10 2011
inside-outside 09 2011
design alive 01 2011
wizjonerzy 06 2011
md international 09 2011
villa in nature 2011
casas & negócios 05-06 2011
x-house 2011
taschen architecture now houses 2 2011
zeppelin 02 2011
bauwelt 11 2010
iw magazine 11/12 2010
architektura & biznes 09 2010
architektur. aktuell 03 2010
international magazine of space design – bob 03 2010
architektura murator 12 2009
c3 10 2009
house & garden 10 2009
mark magazine 06-07 2009
archivolta 1 2008
arquitectura plus 10 2007
archivolta 4-6 2005
| exhibitions: | vita contemplativa – hesse/konieczny/stinessen, architektur galerie berlin, germany 07/08 2018 |
| venice biennale 2018 – blurred boundaries, palazzo bembo, italy 05/11 2018 | |
| robert konieczny – tailored-made spaces, brno 05 2017 | |
| architects at the piano, katowice 2016 | |
| famous polish villas, katowice 01 2014 |
famous polish villas, wroclaw 03/05 2013
museum of architecture, wroclaw 10 2013
silesian university of technology 10 2013
śpaw’12 07 2012
polish art in berlin 11/12 2013
logic of space, nowy sącz 11/12 2011
v4 family houses, beirut 05 2011
architecture week, prague 10 2010
kwk promes exhibition, ostrava 12 2009/02 2010
wild wild east, hamburg 09/11 2009
polish architects exhibition, london 09 2009