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Piren Residential House by Maciej Basalygo

Piren Residential House by Maciej Basalygo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


BronzeInterior· 2023

Piren Residential House

by Maciej Basalygo

Client: Maciej Basałygo

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Piren Residential House

Piren is a residential architecture project. The spaces intertwine and define the usable zones of the house. Natural materials were used in the implementation. Wood, stone and glass can be found on different levels. Details masking the technical infrastructure of the building were individually designed. Passages and glass walls allow optical contact with the surroundings.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Piren Residential House is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Piren Residential House is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Piren Residential House splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Interviews

Design Interview

What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

The main ideas became nature, freedom, comfort, penetration, freshness.

What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

I was particularly keen to achieve consistency between the design brief and the end result.

What are your future plans for this award winning design?

I think this award and the process of promoting it will change the perception of my projects' presence in electronic media. I intend to promote myself more than I have done so far.

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Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The resulting space is non-obvious, it harmonizes with the surroundings through the interpenetration of functional zones, which facilitates mutual relations between the residents. Built of natural materials, enriched with individually designed furniture elements, the interior architecture also allows you to find a zone full of peace and intimacy. The entire functioning of the facility is supervised by intentionally hidden technology that controls the quality of air, light, temperature and sound.
Dimensions & Packaging
The project has approximately 450 square meters spread over 3 floors. 1 underground and two above-ground.
Tags
Interior architecture, residential design, philosophy of life, house, individual project
Production Technology
The choice of materials and technologies resulted from the aesthetic and functional needs of both investors and designers. The technical infrastructure of the building was almost completely hidden. The list of materials includes specially tinted ash wood, granite floor slabs in the color of volcanic tuff, transparent protective glass at the stairs and mezzanine. The whole was to be connected by the whiteness of the walls, which served to reflect light and display artistic works.
Design Challenge
Design is a process in which abstract challenges are transformed into forms, signs, symbols embedded in space. This project was primarily an attempt to achieve an optical balance based on the use of a selected and properly arranged group of materials. The interiors were to be characterized by non-obviousness and the desire to constantly explore them.
Research
Design activities balanced around the boundaries set by superior ideas such as safety, comfort, naturalness, perfection. They were accompanied by the limits of emotions expressed by deriving happiness from passion in the form of contemplation of music, painting, graphics and love of cooking. Assigning spatial and material features to the above elements was a constant setting of boundaries and balancing between them.
Inspiration
The inspiration was conversations with the owners about their passions, experience and plans. They translated into spatial solutions based on analyzes of the presence of light in the interiors, non-accidental combinations of materials, proportions or control of sound propagation. The apparent boundaries set in this way were to emphasize the functions and specific pace of life of the household members. Finally, the main ideas became nature, freedom, comfort, penetration, freshness.
Project Duration
The residence is located in Poznan, Poland. The design work lasted 12 months
Operation Flow
Designing affects the shaping of emotions, creates spatial images of the environment for spending time. The project is not only a response to existential needs, but a plan that was supposed to stand the test of time and intrigue the residents even after returning from attractive holidays, exceptional concerts or places that could make an original impression. By freely opening and closing the glass openings, you can control the symbiosis of architecture and the outside.
Image Credits
Image #1-5 : Photographer Maciej Frydrysiak

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