House with Art Studio

House with Art Studio
Spolupráce:Grazyna Stawicka, Dariusz Bober, Piotr Fortuna
Address: Horodelska 18, Warszawa, Poland
Investor:Monika Sosnowska
Project:2005-07

Completion:2006-09
Area:202 m2
Built Up Area:260 m2
Site Area:565 m2
Built Up Space:942 m3


As we began working on the project, our goal was not to build a house on a plot, but to convert the plot to a space one could call home, an area that would exist as a work-life space for its inhabitants. The chosen concept allowed also an efficient use of current situation – deep and surrounded by walls of nearby houses.
he design is an outcome of a search for an optimal position for individual functions; the cross sections are rather reactions for its spatial context. Overlapping these two contexts created a series of interiors with a consistent geometrical logic, but different proportions and heights, sometimes surprising, due to being determined by an invisible factor.
Close neighbourhood consists of very differential, small residential buildings and outbuildings consisting of both single buildings and ones placed on plot borders and frontages. The architecture we created tries to be an obvious part of this context, but with a certain touch of sovereignty. It’s supposed to be something like an abstract reflection of surrounding “everyday”, organising it and adding some structure and value.
n this sense, the project can be taken as modern, because it differs in typology and organisation from an average project in nowadays detached houses architecture, or as traditional, because it reflects nearby reality and old building tradition.
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