Semi Opened 住宅 by Mateusz Gornik is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 银奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

银建筑· 2023

Semi Opened 住宅

by Mateusz Gornik

Client: Mateusz Górnik

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About Semi Opened 住宅

半开放式房屋从前面封闭，向私人森林开放。屋顶是一个绿色露台，从上面可以欣赏到树顶。该建筑将绿色植物和周围环境融为一体，以便从各个角度都可以看到梦想的图像。它是一块严酷的、不可改变的巨石，指的是散布在该地区的岩石，不断被周围的自然所补充。房子周围的画面随着季节、天气条件、昼夜循环的节奏而变化。室内装饰通过宽敞的窗户采用自然装饰，并随季节变化。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Semi Opened 住宅是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Semi Opened 住宅将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Semi Opened 住宅是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

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.
Dimensions & Packaging: 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,
Tags: Residential Building, Green Roof Building, Modern Architecture, Village House, Concrete House, Brutalism, Frame House,
Production 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.
Design 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. The building gained a new meaning in the ecosystem.Green living terraces became the leitmotif of the project. A big challenge during the implementation was to arrange formwork so as to get the planned saturation of the walls, mainly the front wall, which symbolizes large broken doors to the house. Minimalist facades, the cost-saving form was a big challenge in terms of detail. All installations had to be planned in advance and properly guided so that renewable energy sources can be used. Technology did not allow mistakes. We were guided by both - investors requirements and needs as well as by our internal belief that we are creating a house for years and we want it to fit even partially into the requirements of green order, which we consider to be an inevitable future.
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. The best plants to fulfill the spaces are local, forest plants - they are well established and have all the conditions they need to grow and live. We use the thermoregulatory qualities of plants, their natural ability to benefit ionization, correction of air humidity and active reduction of impurities contained in it. Buildings integrated with such living facades and roofs absorb more CO2 than they emit it themselves. Buildings actively convert clean energy and stored rainwater into a positive climate change in their surroundings. Together with the photovoltaic installation and rainwater harvesting system and rainwater tank, we obtain a set of environmentally friendly solutions.
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.
Project Duration: 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.
Operation Flow: 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.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Gornik Architects, Mateusz Górnik
Image Credits: Image#1: Illustrator Alicja Kaim, Semi Opened, 2022.
Image#2: Illustrator Alicja Kaim, Semi Opened, 2022.
Image#3: Illustrator Alicja Kaim, Semi Opened, 2022.
Image#4: Illustrator Alicja Kaim, Semi Opened, 2022.
Image#5: Illustrator Alicja Kaim, Semi Opened, 2022.
Video Credits: Mateusz Górnik.
Images in PDF: Mateusz Górnik.