Showing posts with label Poland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poland. Show all posts
Monday, November 18, 2013
Bathroom Surprise in Krakow, Poland
XV House is large modern home designed by RS + Robert Skitek office in Krakow, second largest city in Poland. It is created to become an attraction in the neighborhood.
Home designs can be divided in two main categories. Vertical and horizontal homes. The main idea of this project was to create modern house focused on vertical growth instead of horizontal expansion, with intention to take advantage of location and offer beautiful views of Poland's second largest. (something like this warm modern vertical home in San Francisco) House is designed to have basement floor with car garage and guest rooms, ground floor with modern living room, first floor with bedrooms for children and parents, second floor with space available for events and awesome rooftop terrace.
Interior design follows this idea of vertical growth. Floor areas are not big but contemporary design allows great comunication between rooms, horizontally or vertically through wooden stairs. One thing that attracted my attention was this modern bathroom with transparent glass wall looking out on the staircase. Interesting and unusual detail, but since staircase has transparent ceiling to collect daylight, with glass wall, bathroom get nice amount of daylight as well. Good thinking architects, good thinking.
All photos © Tomasz Zakrzewski
How do you like this interesting modern home? Let us know in the comment section below.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Tiny Houses: World's Narrowest House, Warsaw, Poland
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| Tiny Houses: World's Narrowest House, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Kacper Pempel/Reuters |
Here it is! New winner in the category of tiny houses. Keret House is new world's narrowest house and one of the world's smallest houses. It is built inside of the small alley between 12 and 6 story buildings in the old part of Warsaw where used to be Jewish Ghetto. The house is wide barely over 1 meter. (120cm/47in).
Keret House is designed by Jakub Szczesny from Centrala Architecture for Israeli author Etgar Keret. Steel frame for the house was built off the site and placed in the alley latter. Interiors are designed to stay bright pulling daylight into the house through 3 small windows.
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| World's Narrowest House, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
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| World's Narrowest House entrance, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Kacper Pempel/Reuters |
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| World's Narrowest House interior, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
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| World's Narrowest House kitchen, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
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| World's Narrowest House interior, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
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| World's Narrowest House kitchen, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
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| World's Narrowest House bedroom, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
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| World's Narrowest House working desk, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Kacper Pempel/Reuters |
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| World's Narrowest House kitchen, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Kacper Pempel/Reuters |
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| World's Narrowest House bedroom, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Kacper Pempel/Reuters |
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| World's Narrowest House kitchen, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Kacper Pempel/Reuters |
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| World's Narrowest House interior, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
| World's Narrowest House interior, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
| World's Narrowest House bedroom, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
| World's Narrowest House interior, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
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| World's Narrowest House section, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Centrala Architecture |
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| World's Narrowest House floor plan, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Centrala Architecture |
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| World's Narrowest House construction, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
| World's Narrowest House construction, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
| World's Narrowest House construction, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
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| World's Narrowest House construction, Keret House, Warsaw, Poland © Dom Kereta/Polish Modern Art Foundation |
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