Mobius Architekci carves Dune Home’s bowed silhouette into the Polish countryside

Inscribed into the traces of the terrain it’s embedded inside, Dune Home by Polish structure apply Mobius Architekci channels the curving silhouette of its namesake in an abstracted mild, with a recent design aesthetic that’s akin to what one would possibly discover on the set of a spy thriller. Set throughout the countryside surrounding Warsaw in Poland, overlooking the Narew River, the 1500 sqm residential design is a stark merger of natural and geometric design languages, working with contrasts to manifest the design crew’s fascination with eye-catching houses. In realising the residence, which is kind of appreciable in its scale as a single-family dwelling, the agency, led by Polish architect Przemek Olczyk, successfully carved this system and its enveloping kind out of the plush plains of the location; using mixtures of sharp and easy traces, Cubist varieties, and subtraction to answer the context, with an enormous inexperienced terrace on everything of its roof.

“The shopper was a pair who anticipated a house that might transport them to a local weather aside from Poland’s, one with extra Mediterranean influences. They dreamed of an open and spacious home, but in addition an intimate one, and wished to formally separate the constructing from the busy road the place the plot is situated,” reveals Olczyk whereas chatting with STIR in regards to the temporary offered to him for this residential architectural fee. For this objective, the house is hid from the entry street alongside its entrance, designed with solely its inhabitants in thoughts. In response to the design crew, this can be a frequent characteristic of their modus operandi in the case of villa design, making certain that each one the element and intricacy of the house is understood solely to its main customers.

A stronger sense of intimacy within the relationship between the house and its customers emerges as a consequence of this measure, the place the inexperienced mound that acts as its base additionally serves to display the constructed kind from these approaching it alongside the river financial institution. Externally, the constructing’s envelope encompasses a appreciable quantity of glazing on its entrance façade design, with the one breaks offered by mullions that body its curved trajectory. Above and beneath it, curved slabs impart a way of weight and opacity to the constructing’s look, adhering to the circulate of the terrain. The higher roof slab is blanketed nearly totally in dense inexperienced cowl, embedding the construction into its environment. Cuts, breaks, and sloped parts on this large inexperienced roof terrace serve to mitigate the homogeneity of this higher bounding floor.

Olczyk shares, “The façade is a mix of sintered stone, which refers back to the thought of a constructing ‘carved’ into the encircling space and the white plaster on the outside is a reference to Mediterranean structure.” He continues, “Geometric contrasts are immediately associated to the constructing’s kind growth. They had been a approach to remove the disadvantages of the placement of the plot. Sharp cubist cuts forming the inner atrium are a response to the purposeful wants and the necessity for privateness of the investor. Alternatively, the arc within the façade’s profile harmoniously refers back to the form of the flowing river.”

Regardless of the constructing’s immense measurement close to its typology and program, its precise impression on the countryside is kind of restricted, resting low amid fields of grass. As per Olczyk, this scale allowed him to play with the shape in a way the place its movement might be sped up or slowed right down to create a extra participating spatial journey, one with an actual sense of ebb and circulate to it. Nevertheless, the best counterpoint lies past the house’s frontage, in the principle quantity, the place the inexperienced roof is defragmented to kind open areas hewn from the topography. This variation in design language, though jarring, serves the upper performance of this system whereas additionally providing a break within the stable massing of constructed varieties.

Following the slope of the land, the massing opens up at this juncture to kind an open house, resulting in parking areas and different purposeful zones. A 300-metre operating observe slices by way of this area, and runs alongside the perimeter of the location—which additionally boasts a helipad on certainly one of its edges. Whereas the massing across the semi-outdoor house is at its most top, this elevation regularly diminishes in direction of the location’s rear, in a mild incline that turns into one with the panorama. Returning to the entrance of the construction, an oblong glass field is perched atop the inexperienced roof, described as a “periscope” that rises over the enclosing tree traces. Two swimming swimming pools have been offered as a part of the lengthy checklist of facilities housed throughout the construction, which additionally encompasses a cell platform that connects the constructing to the foot of the hill it its located on. When dealing with the house from the river, the bedrooms have been positioned alongside the correct hand facet of the plan, with the lounge and kitchen at its centre, adopted by a leisure space on the other arm of the format. One nook of the construction has been devoted to an workplace house as per the shopper’s needs, blessed with clear views of the Narew River.

When devising the inside design and its performance, the architects paid explicit heed to the incorporation of automation, positioning the house as a cutting-edge piece of up to date structure centred on person comfort. Glass, stone, picket decking, and a bunch of different refined supplies outline the palette all through the house’s areas, with particular point out of the glass staircase in addition to the inclusion of curated sculptures that decoration the residence’s minimalist-tinged spatial narrative. Catching the sunshine at angles that shade inhabitants from the glare of the solar, Dune Home is a sanctum devised to create an impression, each within the minds of its main customers in addition to those that frequent its halls.