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Aatrial House, Polish Home, Architecture, Photo, Design, Opole, Project, Picture
Aatrial House : Modern Polish Building
Modern House Poland by kwk promes Architects
Polish Building: information from kwk promes Architects 2007
Aatrial House, Opole, Poland
2006
Location
The house is situated in Poland, close to Opole. Majority of low density
settlement in the surroundings is formed of cube houses,
buildings typical for the 1970s.
Idea
One hectare site near the forest, where the building is designed has
only one weak point: south-western access. An obvious conflict develops
between the driveway and the garden. The idea arose to lower the driveway
in order to separate it from the garden. This prompted another idea
- of a driveway leading inside to the ground floor level, from underneath
the building, which became possible thanks to the creation of an inner
atrium with the driveway in it.

New type of the house
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, which is the reverse of an atrial building. The aatrial
house is closed to the inside and opened to the surroundings.
Structure and materials
The gateway is situated in the highest point of the site sloping to
the east side. The 10 metres wide driveway following slopes
declivity, was additionally lowered underneath the ground level, while
the garden was partly raised above this level. As a result, the garden
is separated from the driveway and the surroundings with a 2.5m high
retaining wall. The building was situated on the garden level. For
the sake of neighboring buildings, typical polish cube
houses arisen it 1970s, the structure of the house results
from various transformations of a cube.
As a result of stretching and bending particular surfaces of the cube,
all the walls, floors and ceilings were defined, together with inner
aatrium and terraces. This principle of formation has not only created
the structure of the house, but also defined interior and exterior
architecture, including use of materials. The building is a reinforced
concrete monolith, and concrete is at the same time the finishing
material of the transformed cube, while all additional elements are
finished with dark ebony.
The driveway and retaining walls were made out of quarried granite
blocks, the material characteristic for the surroundings.
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