The house on the slope is a project of a modern single-family house with an area of just over 250m2 including a two-car garage. The villa designed by the RESE Architekci studio by Piotr Zabłocki is located on an irregular, elongated plot. The northern border of the plot is an almost 7m high escarpment. This escarpment, or rather the attractive view that stretches below it, has been the main asset of the property from the very beginning. The landscape in the form of a forest, fields and a river - it was this that first captivated the investor who chose this, as it turned out, difficult plot to build on, and then us who took on this design challenge. It was this view that was the goal and basis for shaping the functional layout of the house.
The main glazing and the entire living area are set so that from sunrise to sunset, the residents feel the closeness of nature outside the window. The fact that the building is somehow above the treetops allows you to observe the greenery from a slightly different perspective, where the trees form a kind of green carpet. Quite unusually, the desire to maintain an appropriate view outside the window resulted in the largest glazing facing north and additionally determined the way in which the functional layout of the house was shaped.
A great help during the design process was the fact that the investor was already building a second house, so he knew perfectly well what he wanted and what did not work. This approach definitely simplified the design process, which allowed the creation of an extremely functional and cost-optimized single-family house. The building on the ground floor has an unspecified shape but fits into a square with an offset and a fragmentary overhang of the second floor.
The house has a full functional layout for a family of 4. The day zone with an open kitchen, a study, a bathroom, auxiliary rooms and a large two-car garage at the front are classically located on the ground floor. On the first floor there is a private part with 3 bedrooms - the main one with two wardrobes and a private bathroom, as well as a bathroom for children and a laundry room. The building was supposed to be functional above all, and its form is the result of a defined function, plot limitations, provisions of the Local Spatial Development Plan and the desire to maintain a simple, unobtrusive, yet timeless shape. Due to the proximity of a 7-meter slope and the quality of the soil (uncontrolled construction embankment), the building was founded indirectly on CFA concrete piles, which also influenced the shaping of the building's architecture.
