{"id":39400,"date":"2025-08-01T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39400\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:06:22","slug":"camouflaged-within-nature-this-polish-home-sits-in-harmony-with-its-riverside-landscape-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39400\/","title":{"rendered":"Camouflaged within nature, this Polish home sits in harmony with its riverside landscape | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warsaw<\/a>-based architecture firm 77 Studio has designed a single-family home<\/a> that is distinct through its particular sensitivity to place, views, and nature.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

Called House in the Slope, the residence is located on the bank of the Vistula River in the central region of Poland<\/a>. The client carefully chose the location of the home in order to have direct access to the surrounding landscape, along with unique views of the panorama of the river, the riverside vegetation, and the silhouette of a city in the background.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started working on the design, we knew that one of the most important features of the building would be its relationship with the river,\u201d said 77 Studio founder Pawe\u0142 Naduk. \u201cThe creative interaction with the surroundings was reflected, among other things, in the unusual orientation of the building on the plot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

According to the architects, the most interesting landscape frames opened obliquely in relation to the river, so the structure was rotated accordingly. As a result, the house is not positioned parallel to the plot boundaries. This orientation made it possible to secure views of the full profile of the slope and the river.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also decided to bring the building as close as possible to the edge of the rise, framing its picturesque, undeveloped foot. What\u2019s more, we lowered the floor level in relation to the ground level, thus embedding the building in the slope,\u201d added Naduk.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

This decision was informed by the surroundings, in which the presence of a large, traditional neighboring house discouraged the creation of a new form that would protrude above the terrain and compete with the preexisting building.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

The entrance of the home is amidst a preserved wild meadow that gently rises along the slope. The designers cut a ravine through the meadow that features a driveway to a small patio where the house\u2019s entrance is located.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

The house was designed to have as little interference with the natural shape of the slope as possible. The building penetrates the earth and fits into the natural morphology of the site.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

This allows the architecture to hide in the greenery and not obstruct the view of the river for others. In order to further reduce the presence of the house in the landscape, the entire structure is covered with a green roof<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

Small patios were designed in the slope in order to ensure good daylight and introduce greenery into the interior. The intended camouflage effect was reinforced by using plant species naturally found near the river. For the same reason, the house has no fencing. Instead, this function is fulfilled through the use of wild shrubs that form a natural barrier around the property.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/a>Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

The home\u2019s fa\u00e7ades and the edges of the driveway are clad with corten steel panels. The automatic garage doors were hidden behind the fa\u00e7ade panels in order to maintain a unified building form. As stated by Naduk, \u201cBecause the building is sunken below ground level, we wanted to give it a natural yet somewhat muscular and strong expression. Hence, the decision to use thick corten steel plates and profiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

Spanning nearly 4,844 square feet, the single-story house had a clear functional layout. Most of the living spaces were positioned to provide the best exposure to the landscape. On the southeast side, there is a large living room with direct access to a spacious terrace and a view of the river panorama. A roughly 39-foot-wide automatic sliding door allows for contact with nature while remaining indoors. A bedroom with a bathroom is located nearby.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

On the southwest side, there are two more bedrooms. The dining room with kitchen was placed on the southern side. The home\u2019s panoramic glazing allows residents to move through the house without ever losing sight of the Vistula.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

The structure\u2019s environmental impact is minimized through the use of renewable energy<\/a> solutions, building automation, and passive<\/a> measures, such as sun breakers and cornices that help limit air conditioning usage.<\/p>\n

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Image: Piotr Krajewski<\/p>\n

House in the Slope recently received the 2025 SARP Award of the Year for Polish architects in the “Single-Family Residential Building” category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warsaw-based architecture firm 77 Studio has designed a single-family home that is distinct through its particular sensitivity to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-39400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}