House in Owczarnia

20 of September '23

House in Owczarnia Owczarnia near Podkowa Leśna

Photo: Gosia Gora © Anonymous Architects

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Article taken from A&B issue 7-8|23

What are the biggest design challenges in single-family house architecture today?

House in Owczarnia Owczarnia near Podkowa Leśna - proj.: Anonimowi Architekci

Is it necessary to consider in how many materials, how plastic, subject to the functions of the designed space, subject to the will of the designer or designer (concrete, wood, metal, void, green, light), references (foundation, floor, wall, window, roof, vertical, horizontal, slant, one on top of the other, one next to the other, rhythm), spaces (dimension, weight, structure, color, texture, contrast, similarity) we work as architects?

House in Owczarnia Owczarnia near Podkowa Leśna - proj.: Anonymous Architects

Photo: Gosia Góra © Anonymous Architects

Is the style of our projects open-minded enough to trigger and take into account the imagination of investors and their families (we will live here, we will walk from here so far, sleep, cook, work, we will be on the terrace)?

House in Owczarnia Owczarnia near Podkowa Leśna - proj.: Anonymous Architects

Can or should a design contain references to traditionally important and binding values of body and spirit: beauty, goodness, durability? Houses that are simple, yet relate to their surroundings in the community and in nature, among the other houses we live in - do they deserve the almost reflex response "beautiful!"? And at the same time, we don't seem to be changing the names of beauty, goodness, sustainability?