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“North star” apartment shines out with its distortional balconies subverting the street facade

United Kingdom Architecture News - Jun 05, 2015 - 14:23 6073 views

all photos © Tomáš Manina, Sona Pohlová

Nice Architects designed a medium-scaled apartment in Moyzesova street, Senec; the building is differentiated with its distinct awry facade modulations, which provides different views from every direction.

The apartment house “North star” is situated in the centre of Senec. Our goal was to design a building to unite surrounded built-up area, to use a nice view, but keep a certain intimacy of the flats because of the close proximity of the road. The system of covered balconies provides a sufficient intimacy on the exposed street façade, but still we get a lot of natural light into the spaces. The balconie´s walls shaping is based on the movement of the sun. It gives the façade a unique architectonical look. This shape creates together a star-like shapes while moving on the road – it reflects a presence of an observatory across the street. A green “zen” atrium gives the building an added value, a space for the rest and peaceful times spent for all inhabitants.