BXB Studio has completed a house built of five overlapping barns that was the basis of the dream-like animated short film ArchiPaper.
Named Polish Farmhouse, the house is a transformation of a historical homestead that involved redeveloping an old house on the property and reimagining five outbuildings that were demolished.
The home drew global attention in 2019 when visualisation artist Rafa? Barna?, who is architect Rafa? Barna?' brother, photographed the model of the project and created a paper-cutout style of animation.
Titled ArchiPaper: A Surrealist Story About Architecture, the film went on to win awards at international festivals and is now available to watch in full on YouTube.
The model for the Polish Farmhouse was the basis of the short film ArchiPaper BXB Studio renovated the original 100-year-old homestead into a guesthouse and around it, the studio created a modern home within five intersecting forms that are similar in size to the original outbuildings.
The architecture studio tried to position the volumes so that they could keep certain trees, and to create views in each room that would be appropriate to their function.
The Polish Farmhouse consists of five overlapping barn-like volumes
"In the place of five farm buildings due for demolition, we proposed five permeating barns, to create a highly dynamic space," said Bogus?aw Barna?. "The seemingly random scattered solids were carefully defined by the surrounding landscape, the position of th...