RAVINE HOUSE

RAVINE HOUSE

BXB studio as Architects

AVINE HOUSE


Project: BXBstudio Bogusław Barnaś Team: Bogusław Barnaś, Giulia Berloco, Paulina Dobrzańska Collaboration: W23 Architekci - Michał Włudzik Visualisations and graphics: BXBstudio Bogusław Barnaś Location: gm. Jasło Date: 2013 Area of House: 248 m2 Area of Garage: 44 m2 Client: Private Estimated cost of investment: 690 000 zł


The presented house and garage were designed for a site with a unique quality – a ravine growing with various types of decidous trees. These beautiful trees growing out of the ravine became a point of reference for the architectural form of the sought object. The long rectangular plan of the house extends horizontally along the ravine. The windows, arranged in a bar code pattern, frame the view of the beautiful trees in the corridor and various rooms of the house. The house becomes a gallery depicting the trees changing through the seasons. The entrance is accentuated by a wooden bridge that leads into the ravine. The ground floor, including garage, hallway and living room, were embedded at different levels, so that the longitudinal form of the house would follow a slight decline in the picturesque landscape, creating an engaging vertical movement through the house. The shed roof has been designed not only to provide shelter for the terrace or entrance but also to provide shade at the south-west side, while allowing for optimum views onto the trees from the east. The overhang of the shed roof didn’t allow for traditional gutters, therefore an unusual method was adapted. The rain water sheds freely onto boulders set along the timber-clad terrace. A drainage system is embedded under the rocks. Wood, stone and other natural materials and warm tones were used to allow the building to harmonise with its surroundings.

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