Press Release
Mateusz Gornik Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Semi Opened Residential House in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Mateusz Gornik recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Semi Opened Residential House by Mateusz Gornik, designed for Mateusz Górnik, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Semi Opened Residential House
Semi Opened House is closed from the front and opens to the private forest. The roof is a green terrace, from which you can admire tree tops. The building frames the greenery and the surroundings so that the dream images can be viewed from every perspective. It is a harsh unchangeable monolith, referring to rocks scattered in the region, which is constantly being complemented by the surrounding nature. The pictures around the house change in the rhythm of seasons, weather conditions, day and night cycles. The interiors adopt nature decorations through spacious windows and transform seasonally.
About Mateusz Gornik
He is the 2020 40u40 Award winner. His idea of balanced architecture is the one that shapes architecture trends in Poland. in his projects he takes into account the climate change and searches for eco solutions to replace old and outdated environmentally harmful ideas.
Award Record
Mateusz Gornik is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Typical entries include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. The awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/149463
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/149463
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!149463
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/285705
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bitly.pl/wSJbr
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Semi Opened Residential House
- Function
- Residential House
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Light Slate Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Black and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Mateusz Górnik
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mateusz Gornik
- Country
- Poland
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #149463
Credits
- Image Credits
- Illustrator Alicja Kaim, Semi Opened, 2022.; Illustrator Alicja Kaim, Semi Opened, 2022. Video Credits: Mateusz Górnik. Images in PDF: Mateusz Górnik.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Semi Opened House is the answer to the changes that appeared around the investors' plot. The place was changed by the local developer, who cut down part of the forest to build the housing estate.Our task was to design a house that would be closed from the front and open to the private forest. A house that would use the roof as a green terrace, from which you could admire tree tops and a house that frames the greenery and the surroundings so that the dream images can be viewed from every perspective.
- Inspiration
- The idea of the project was to create still harsh unchangeable monolith, referring to rocks scattered in the region, which is constantly being complemented by the surrounding nature.The pictures around the house change in the rhythm of seasons, weather conditions, day and night cycles. Therefore the house interiors are flexibly exposed to the influence of the surrounding environment and adopt nature decorations through spacious windows and skylights. Images change cyclically.
- Research
- The additional idea of the project was to create still harsh unchangeable monolith, referring to rocks scattered in the region, which is constantly being complemented by the surrounding nature. We design green surfaces to create a network of eco-points of the building that provide a specific natural eco climate around the house. This is indeed our vision of a potential new order in architecture where the house becomes the centre of influencing the climate and Biodiversity change – building as a new biotope "asylum", a living library of animal plant genes and microorganisms. The building starts to be an ecosystem of the future.
- Challenge
- When designing a big challenge was the context of the place, the plot of large size but mostly forested, the investment fully had to be located on a small glade so as not to cut the trees of the local forest, which also belonged to the owners. Another important aspect was the combination of concrete technology with ecology. We decided to develop such a functional system that will give lightness to the shape of the building itself, dismembers the terraces and introduce elements of nature to the center of the house. Thus, we used the raw form and its strength under green terraces, both between the building, in its middle and on the roof.
- Realization and Technology
- The project uses mixed technology consisting of steel, concrete and ceramics.The building is based on st ructural walls and a grid of columns on which the slab used for the green terrace is designed.
- Operation and Interaction
- The pictures around the house change in the rhythm of seasons, weather conditions, day and night cycles. Therefore the house interiors are flexibly exposed to the influence of the surrounding environment and adopt nature decorations through spacious windows and skylights.Images change cyclically giving the interiors unpredictable sets of colors and shades. Moving around the building you are welcome to admire different views and perspectives. Standing on the terrace one can observe the area as separate framed pictures - tops of the trees, open atrium of the house, garden part and architecture outlines.
- Project Duration and Location
- The Project started in September 2021 in Sosnowiec and finished in March 2022 in Katowice. Planning permission received in January 2022. Site works started in May 2022. Building was built in November 2022. There are still works on site, in next several months we will start interior works and site works around building.
- Specifications
- Technical information: Total plot area: 2790.00 m2, Built-up area: 540.40 m2, Biologically active area without a green roof: 1720.00 m2, Biologically active area without a green roof: 61.65 %, Biologically active area with a green roof: 2239.10 m2, Biologically active area with a green roof: 80 %, Surfaces: Usable area: 422.6 m2, Built-up area:540.4 m2, Volume: 2,174. 88m3, Building height: 7.70 m, Type of roof: flat roof, gable roof, Floor plan dimension: 26.6 m x 34.5 m,
- Keywords
- Residential Building, Green Roof Building, Modern Architecture, Village House, Concrete House, Brutalism, Frame House,
