RAVINE HOUSE

The presented house and garage were designed for a site with a unique quality – a ravine growing with various types of decidous trees. These beautiful trees growing out of the ravine became a point of reference for the architectural form of the sought object.
The long rectangular plan of the house extends horizontally along the ravine. The windows, arranged in a bar code pattern, frame the view of the beautiful trees in the corridor and various rooms of the house. The house becomes a gallery depicting the trees changing through the seasons. The entrance is accentuated by a wooden bridge that leads into the ravine.
The ground floor, including garage, hallway and living room, were embedded at different levels, so that the longitudinal form of the house would follow a slight decline in the picturesque landscape, creating an engaging vertical movement through the house.
The shed roof has been designed not only to provide shelter for the terrace or entrance but also to provide shade at the south-west side, while allowing for optimum views onto the trees from the east.
The overhang of the shed roof didn’t allow for traditional gutters, therefore an unusual method was adapted. The rain water sheds freely onto boulders set along the timber-clad terrace. A drainage system is embedded under the rocks.
Wood, stone and other natural materials and warm tones were used to allow the building to harmonise with its surroundings.

RAVINE HOUSE
Project: BXBstudio Boguslaw Barnas
Team: Boguslaw Barnas, Giulia Berloco, Paulina Dobrzanska
Collaboration: W23 Architekci - Michal Wludzik
Visualisations and graphics: BXBstudio Boguslaw Barnas
Location: gm. Jaslo
Date: 2013
Area of House: 248 m2 Area of Garage: 44 m2
Client: Private
Estimated cost of investment: 690 000 zl

Team: Boguslaw Barnas, Giulia Berloco, Paulina Dobrzanska
Collaboration: W23 Architekci - Michal Wludzik
Visualisations and graphics: BXBstudio Boguslaw Barnas