From the Garden House was an exceptional project for the Katowice-based architecture studio KWK Promes. Situated in a secret location in the Polish countryside, the private villa took a path to completion that was unique in more ways than one. 

First unusual aspect was the extent of time that it took to complete the entire project. KWK Promes founder, Robert Konieczny, had his first discussions with the client in 2008, yet the villa was completed in early 2020.

The second exception to norm was that instead of selecting a gorgeous site for his future villa, the client had bought a non-descript, 2.5 hectare meadow site that really had very little to recommend it as a setting for an opulent villa of substantial size.

And thirdly, the client did not want to build a house and then create a garden to respond to it, he went about it backwards. He hired a Japanese garden designer to create a garden setting on the site in advance of starting the plans for the house. He told the garden designer only that he should leave space for a house and that the garden should and will influence the house design.
To the initial frustration of Konieczny, the garden designer and architect did not have a mutual language in which to communicate. So, Konieczny resigned to this fate and decided that he will think of this newly created landscape just like he would think of any site to which a house must conform and respond.

Konieczny began the house project in earnest in 2011, only to be del...