OUTrial House

Architects: KWK PROMES
Location: Ksiazenice, Poland
Project Architect: Robert Konieczny
Collaborator: Marcin Jojko
Structural Engineer: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Design Year: 2004
Construction Year: 2005-2007
Site Area: 1,440 sqm
Constructed Area: 180 sqm
Photographs: KWK PROMES

By carving out on the hillside, the KWK PROMES Architects has delivered the OUTrial House in Ksiazenice, Poland where some of its part were covered by grass. The only context given by the client was a green clearing surrounded by forest, which on the next step were added by another request to create some space for a small recording studio and a conservatory.

In order to adapt the client’s request, the architct came with an effort by linking linking the ground floor with the grassy roof through an “incision” in the green plane and “bending” the incised fragment down, inside the building. At the same time, the process turned the roof into an atrium which the only way to reach it was through the house’s interior. By exercising such manner, a new type of house was created and its outrial designation has reached to convey the idea of an atypical atrium which is part of both the interior and the exterior of the building.