This house, located in Zielonki Wie? (a village near Warsaw, the capital of Poland), consists of a monochromatic plaster-and- steel plate mass divided by vertical lines with a soft wooden core.

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Architects: BECZAK

Location: Zielonki-Wie?, Poland

Architect In Charge: BECZAK

Design Team: Magdalena Beczak, arch. Maciej Beczak, arch. Aleksandra Denis

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: jankarol

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From the architect. This house, located in Zielonki Wie? (a village near Warsaw, the capital of Poland), consists of a monochromatic plaster-and- steel plate mass divided by vertical lines with a soft wooden core.
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Its dark graphite armor is formed by walls and a roof connected eavelessly. Dynamic openings in the structure are filled with glass and okoume wood timbering. 

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The local building code required a gabled roof, which became the main determinant shaping the building?s constructionAn asymmetric, gabled roof was designed which covers floors designated for residential purposes under its upper expanse and a two-story living room under the lower portion.

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Lowering the level of the eaves significantly reduced the otherwise large volume of the living area.Roof trusses dig into the resultant tectonic two-story space ...