The Da House Private Residential by Walenty Durka and Emilia Durka-Zielinska is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
BronzeArchitecture· 2024
The Da House Private Residential
by Walenty Durka and Emilia Durka-Zielinska
Client: Dom Architektow
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About The Da House Private Residential
The Da House is an innovative, wooden, modular object made with certified solid wooden 3D construction, ecological certified materials, passive technology and mobile foundation. This dwelling combines the simplicity and quality of prefabricated construction, with the beauty and integrity of an aesthetic object. There are translated ecological and functional assumptions creating a ecological architecture. The priority of the project was the health of residents, high quality, no barriers house, ecology and the favorable microclimate provided by wood, cost of construction & exploitation.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Da House Private Residential 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. The Da House Private Residential 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. The Da House Private Residential 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?
Our task was to create a fully ecological house, healthy for the builders and future residents, and taking into account the entire product life cycle. At the same time, the house was designed to be mobile, both the entire building and the foundations. We have developed an original system for building houses from a wooden 3D frame and point foundations that can be moved with the house. The house was supposed to correspond with nature and provide a healthy and beautiful living environment for its inhabitants.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
We wanted to fulfill the client's dream of beautifully integrating the building into the surrounding nature. The house is located in a unique place in a landscape park and we wanted the shape to fit naturally into the landscape. So that the house doesn't scream. At the same time, we gave every household member a democratic opportunity to interact with what is outside. Thanks to this, their lives changed... to become fuller, healthier and gave them a lot of inner peace. Our client said that he has traveled almost the whole world... but this home keeps him here... giving him solace and satisfying all his needs.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
We would like this house to win many more awards..to show others that beautiful ecological modular houses can be created. But the most important thing is our customer's satisfaction. After all, this house was built for him... We wish our clients the same satisfaction. We are doing everything to make this happen.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to The Da House Private Residential's modular wooden construction has earned recognition, including a Bronze A' Design Award - could you elaborate on how you developed this unique solid wooden 3D construction system that allows for both mobility and structural integrity?
Our path to developing a 3D wooden structure led through experience in designing and building wooden houses, including our own house, which became the starting project for modular division of space. The construction and use of this house confirmed our assumptions and so the idea was born to replicate these modules in the construction of modular houses based on our own designs, and to move the construction of houses under the roof to our own house prefabrication hall.
The Da House Private Residential showcases an impressive dialogue with nature through its elevated position and southern glass wall - what inspired this specific architectural choice, and how does it influence the daily living experience of residents?
The inspiration was nature itself, what we found on site when visiting the client's plot. We decided that the most important thing in this project is the view. That our DA House fits perfectly into this location. It gives a democratic view to all residents regardless of which part of the house they are in and what they are doing. Raising the building above the ground additionally enhanced this view and provided protection for the building from periodic flooding of the river. This design of the house made the residents feel like an integral part of nature, which is why they started to take care of it and suport.
Your research journey for The Da House Private Residential began with building your own zero-energy home - how did those personal experiences shape the development of the ecological and passive technology features implemented in this design?
Our private house has become a testing ground for wood technology and passive heat sources. After many years of using it, our assumptions have simply proven themselves and have given us vast knowledge and experience in designing modular, ecological and zero-energy buildings, which we are now creating.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Da House is an innovative modular object made with certified solid wooden construction and wooden interior, ecological certified materials, passive technology. It's mobile house also with mobile foundation. This dwelling combines the simplicity and quality of prefabricated construction, with the beauty and integrity of an very aesthetic object. There are translated ecological and functional assumptions creating a holistic architecture. Determinants were: natural, recyclable materials, ultra high efficiency standard, water saving, carbon foot print- in entire life cycle of the building. The Project responds to the challenges: sustainable development, nature protection, human healthy, house controlled by price and cost of living.
The Da House is located slightly above the ground because he should establish a dialogue with nature and not dominated her. We implement completely new solutions, returning to "old materials" such as wood to use them in a different, modern way. Providing customers with maximum benefits in terms of full prefabrication control and price control. We believes that this is a completely new way of thinking about architecture for our times, in harmony with nature. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The Da House wooden cages are 2700 mm x 750 mm x 2700 mm.
The size of the modules is optimized. The dimensions of the modules are adapted to the transport possibilities and the dimensions of the boards produced. This does not generate waste and the house can be transported to any part of the continent. - Tags
- ecological, holistic architecture, natural architecture, wooden architecture, carbon foot-print, modular housing, modular buildings
- Production Technology
- The Da House is modular building.
Was build in Solid Wood Module system - innovative authorial construction wood frame-cages and 3-PLY wood panels.
House was prefabricated in manufacture of Dom Architektow and as a ready house was transported in modules to the land plot. The Da House is made only from wood, is energy efficient and made in passive technology. - Design Challenge
- The biggest barrier in designing and building a wooden modular building like The Da House was convincing recipients of the innovation, durability and attractiveness of modular architecture. Just preparing to build ecological, energy-saving modular buildings took years of preparation and experience in using own's architects wooden house with extremely low energy demand. Trust came with the needs that the modern world imposes on customers. Covering the entire construction process in one place under constant supervision, time and cost control has become crucial for customers.
- Research
- The construction of The Da House was preceded by the construction of the architects' own house - an ecological, wooden house with zero energy demand. We translated both architectural and technical solutions into the construction of our own ecological house factory, and proven solutions were implemented in the ecological production.
- Inspiration
- Prefabrication in the modern world can solve new challenges for architecture. Sustainable development, nature protection, human healthy is basic guideline/mission of Dom Architektow So that We use wood and easy to recycle materials and care about carbon foot print in whole life of DA modular houses.
- Project Duration
- The project of The Da House started in 2016 in Złotów in manufacture of Dom Architektow (prefabrication) and finished (as modular house) in 2017 in Brodnica Landscape Park, Poland.
- Operation Flow
- The Da House as modular building can be individual personalised by adding modules or to switch them. Ready building client can enlarge in time by ordering new modules. House can be also rebuild by changing interior walls. House can be disconnect and move to the new place also with foundations. Southern glass wall connected interior with exterior. House invites nature inside and changes inhabitants style of living. As they say to us - teaches her to protect her.
- Patents
- copyrights: Copyrights belong to Walenty Durka
- Team Members
- Architects / Dom Architektow manufacture ovner: Walenty Durka and Emilia Durka-Zielinska
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Jakub Certowicz, Da House, 2017
Image #2: Photographer Jakub Certowicz, Da House, 2017
Image #3: Photographer Jakub Certowicz, Da House, 2017
Image #4: Photographer Jakub Certowicz, Da House, 2017
Image #5: Photographer Jakub Certowicz, Da House, 2017
Video Credits: Dom Architektów, Walenty Durka
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