IDEA
Designed by MUS ARCHITECTS, The main idea was to create something different and original. Not just a single-family house, but an abstract form.

We wanted to create a building that refers to the mountainous area, a house that seems to be a result of tectonics and not design processes.

This thought was the starting point of the project and the frame that kept the space composition in check.

Therefore, we tried to design and implement the concept of a space by escaping the standards associated with single-family houses. We wanted this house to emery like an erratic boulder embedded in a mountain slope, not an architectural form with walls, windows, and a roof.
Photography: Tomasz Zakrzewski
FORM
“Black Rock” originates from the topography of mountainous terrains. “The Rock” is not a cuboid, a cube or a classic house with a gable roof.  It is an abstract multifaceted solid without obvious division into walls and a roof
In the south, the house opens up to the garden, the sun and the view of the Beskids (mountains). The southern wall is high and includes openings such as glazing, terrace, and loggia, which provide a panoramic view. The northern facade mostly consists of a roof slope falling to the plot border – the house?s wall is low and closed here.
Photography: Tomasz Zakrzewski
STRUCTURE, FORM, MATERIAL
The plot is situated on the slope of the mountain. It has a clear decline both in the south and east.

The initial plan of the house wa...