Article source: KWK Promes arch. Robert Konieczny

The clients’ top priority was to gain the feeling of maximum security in their future house, which determined the building’s outlook and performance. The house took the form of a cuboid in which parts of the exterior walls are movable. When the house opens up to the garden, eastern and western side walls move towards the exterior fence creating a courtyard. After crossing the gate one has to wait in this safety zone before being let inside the house. In the same time, there is no risk of children escaping to the street area in an uncontrolled way while playing in the garden.

Front View of Safe House

• Architect: KWK Promes arch. Robert Konieczny
• Name of Project: Safe House
• Location: Warsaw, Poland
• Collaboration: Marcin Jojko, Łukasz Zadrzyński
• Interior Design: Magdalena Radałowicz – Zadrzyńska
• Site Area: 2500 m2
• Usable Floor Area: 567m2
• Volume: 1719m3
• Design: 2004-2005
• Construction: 2005-2009

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