Architects from {tag:pracownie} designed a house located in the wilderness of the Bieszczady Mountains, near the Polish-Ukrainian border. The architecture of the corten-covered building sinks into the mountainous landscape, drawing boundaries with nature.
The corten-covered building does not interfere with the landscape
photo: Juliusz Sokolowski © medusa group
The house sunk in the mountainous landscape designed for Henniger Investment is made in such a way as not to negatively affect the perception of the building by locals and tourists wandering in the Bieszczady Mountains. Its architecture is meant to emphasize the beauty of the place. The weathering-covered building frames the view, in places even duplicating it with reflections on the large glazing.
Views are duplicated in reflections of large glazing
photo: Juliusz Sokolowski © medusa group
The house remains unfenced from the road. In places the space penetrates the mass, elsewhere it overlaps the building. The roof covered with an earth structure with a layer of turf inscribes the object in the context of the place and weakens the sense of its presence against the backdrop of Otryt - a picturesque mountainous range of the Bieszczady Mountains.
The strong body of the building from the north side
photo: Juliusz Sokołowski © medusa group
The architecture hides among the greenery, which opens the house to the panorama of the overlapping Bieszczady peaks. At the same time, it does not take this view away from others. On the side of the neighboring buildings, the house was designed to resemble a break in the hill, while on the north side it retains the character of the building, which has its own scale and mass.
The interiors are consistent with the character of the building
photo: Juliusz Sokolowski © medusa group
The development consists of a private area with a study and recreational and leisure facilities, and a spa with a guest wing that houses several rooms. It was quite a challenge for the architects to fit a building with such a rich functional program into the morphology of the plot, but when it covered itself with a rusty coating and a thick layer of greenery it lost itself in the landscape. The plot, in a planned manner and in accordance with natural processes, cicatrized most of the traces of architectural intervention,leaving on view only those elements that emphasized the designed tectonics of the site.
