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It was meant to connects three rooms: the kitchen, dining room, and living room - they meant to be the center of the house. It had to be spacious, and open to each other, but without unnecessary surface area. In the dining room, there was a large table with a designated place for play and learning for the child.
The windows were meant to resemble paintings but without huge glazing. The owners attached great importance to terraces as separate rooms, and it was also important not to overheat the rooms.
The owner mentioned that she often played on the stairs as a child and remembered it as a pleasant association. The coffee room has a seating area with extended stairs leading to the upper floor for that reason.
The architecture of the new houses in the area is highly diverse in terms of spatial order and aesthetics. Proportions for the building were drawn from the surrounding environment, and the color of the facade was inspired by the colors of the land on which the house stands. The design aimed to simplify the form of the building, eliminating unnecessary decorations. Every decision made during the design process has its own rationale.
The entrance to the plot is located from the south. In its central part, there were already fruit trees growing. Windows serve to frame the views - they are oriented upwards to see the sky, or towards the ground to enjoy the view of greenery.
When designing this house, we focused on natural colors and materials. Among other things, sand-cement plaster impregnated colorlessly was used. The ground floor ceiling was made of ceramic blocks, which remained raw, in their unchanged form. The top of the ceiling above the ground floor was finished with a ceramic resin color.
As for window exposure to light, large windows facing south are not always beneficial for the functioning of the house. It is easier to heat up the building, but much more difficult to cool down from overheating. Such a process requires much more energy. Windows in this project 'control' daylight.
There are resolutions such as green roof above the garage, photovoltaic, rain gardens.
The kitchen, dining room, and living room were to be spacious, and open to each other, but without unnecessary surface area. In the dining room, there was a large table with a designated place for play and learning for the child.
The windows were meant to resemble paintings but without huge glazing. The family room for play, which is also a reading room, has a height of 4 meters. The bathroom was designed in an unconventional way. Its door is hidden in the line of stairs. The stairs leading to the first floor are integrated with the bathroom door and the whole creates a coherent image. In this project, we focused on details. This house is a joint success of both partieS.
Mutual inspiration of ideas, but also support in creating logic and finding arguments to make the best decisions for the space was a pleasure.
IFAgroup was founded in 2014 by Kamil Domachowski, architect educated in Gdansk University of Technology in Poland, and has completed many projects of individual houses, including award-winning ones, as well as public buildings. In spring of 2024 he became one of the winners of the „40under40® program for 2023-2024”.
„Looking for the essence of things in the context, devoiding unnecessary additions is a creative process that I wish to follow. A project is an idea that brings all the elements together: function, tasks, dreams, emotions, design. Finding this bond is essential to create an individual value. We study the form inquisitively, we trim excess details like with a sculpture, while ultimately paying great attention to detail. Working on a model is an essential stage in the creative process.”
