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ABOUT ME
I always have distinctive approach to each and every space I come to design — regardless of whether it is a home, an art gallery or an office. I begin my project with a precise analysis of the existing situation, exploring all possible contexts. Each of my concepts is an answer to the long-sought-after, predefined design problems. I’m loyal to the thesis that form follows function, and
because of that users are always my priority and I create my projects according to their needs. Design challenges inspire me to overrun my own limits and push myself to broaden the definition of what interior architecture actually is. Maybe in part I’m a teacher, who prompts others towards careful consideration about the reality that surrounds them. I try to communicate my knowledge to them, so that they can differentiate between the space that makes them existentially passive, and the progressive space designed for their actual, evolving needs. I strive to turn people into mindful users of places they spend most of their lives at.
adaptation of the Krystyna Shaft’s
hoisting tower for the multi-purpose building
project t ype
multi-purpose building l o c at i o n
Bytom, Silesian District, Poland d e s i g n d at e
2015 i m p l e m e n tat i o n s tat u s
concept investor
wanted designed area
1385 m² of 3166 m² of usable space provided by the design p u b l i c at i o n s
seen on: www.bryla.pl www.archinea.pl www.katowice.wyborcza.pl Project was presented during the RE:BYTOM conference — event focused on the topic of revitalising the Bytom city.
Krystyna Shaft is a brick hoisting tower built in 1928, for the needs of coal dredge by the KWK Szombierki mine. It is one of the seven architectural miracles of the Silesian District and in 2004 the building was listed in the Polish monuments record. This fact protected the tower from demolition, giving it a chance for a new life. The project presented here makes an attempt towards the important topic of this iconic building’s revitalization. All design decisions were preceded by deep analysis of the socio-economic context. After verification of many interrelated factors the design concept became clear: commercial and public functions must be connected, so that the renewed building could attract the widest possible audience. This way over time it could bring real benefits — both investment-related and those reffering to a regional development. Although the concept is focused on 3 out of 9 tiers, the presentation includes a comprehensive functional outline of the object. Also the communication shaft has been designed for the entire vertical tower, proving the feasibility of the adopted concept.
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site plan
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scheme of building’s functional plan
designed area
restaurant with terrace
kitchen, restaurant facilities lecture hall/ auditorium SPA & Wellness
exhibition space
hotel suites and rooms, conference rooms technical space reception desk, cafe, permanent exhibition
main lobby communication exhibition space cafe manager’s office and toilet social space/ cafe’s backroom/ utility room public toilet storage space hotel suites and rooms conference rooms
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ground floor
On the ground floor both administrative and social functions (reception desk, manager’s office, social space) as well as spaces for a public purposes (main lobby, cafe, permanent exhibition about history of the shaft, toilets) have been located. The key factor determining distribution of various functional areas of the ground floor and tiers above was to design a communication shaft. Due to the building’s historical hoisting shaft and its inviolable, dynamically changing construction in the narrowing on the upper floors tower, it turned out that the vertical lift and staircase can be located only in one place.
construction plan
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ground floor
0.1
main lobby, permanent exhibition
0.2 staircase 0.3
lift shaft with corridor
0.4 cafe 0.5 lobby 0.6
manager’s office
0.7
WC for manager
0.8
WC for staff
0.9
social room
0.10 corridor 0.11 cleaning room 0.12 cafe’s backroom 0.13 WC for men 0.14 WC for woman / for disabled 0.15 lobby 0.16 changing room 0.17 storage for luggage
m a i n l o b b y, r e c e p t i o n d e s k
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ground floor
cafe
permanent exhibition
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first floor
The first floor is filled with hotel functions. There have been located both comfortable rooms and more spacious suites. Each room is different in shape due to the need to adapt to the massive constructional elements of the building. However, the overall standard remains the same. Steel pillars not only determine the layout of the rooms, but at the same time they are the aesthetic dominant and thus they have been strongly exposed in ascetic interiors.
construction plan
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first floor
1.1 room 1.2 bathroom 1.3 room 1.4 bathroom 1.5 staircase 1.6
lift shaft with lobby
1.7
bedding storage
1.8 room 1.9 bathroom 1.10 bathroom 1.11 suite 1.12 room 1.13 bathroom 1.14 room 1.15 bathroom 1.16 suite 1.17 bathroom 1.18 bathroom 1.19 room 1.20 corridor 1.21 room 1.22 bathroom 1.23 bathroom 1.24 room
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first floor
suite
suite
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second floor
The second floor is also mostly occupied by rooms and apartments, slightly different in layout from these from the floor below, because of the displacing constructional elements. At this tier there have also been located two business-guests-dedicated conference rooms: large one with capacity of 18 people and the the smaller one for 10 people.
construction plan
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second floor
2.1 room 2.2 bathroom 2.3 room 2.4 bathroom 2.5 staircase 2.6
lift shaft with lobby
2.7
bedding storage
2.8 room 2.9 bathroom 2.10 bathroom 2.11 suite 2.12 room 2.13 bathroom 2.14 room 2.15 bathroom 2.16 suite 2.17 bathroom 2.18 conference room 2.19 corridor 2.20 conference room
conference room
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second floor
section a–a
designed area designed communication shaft
section b–b
section c–c
75 m² Wilanowska suite
project t ype
suite l o c at i o n
Warsaw, Wilanowska Suites d e s i g n d at e
2015 i m p l e m e n tat i o n s tat u s
put into execution investor
private designed area
75 m²
The suite is located on the fourth floor of a building that is a part of a newly built development on the known for its luxury suites Wilanowska Street in Warsaw. The project was commissioned by an elderly yet still professionally active couple. The suite delivered in a developer’s finish standard didn’t meet the client’ requirements and needed some bold functional intervention. Initially there were two small bedrooms with one bathroom combined with a toilet, and a kitchen that was totally inadequate to the owners’ culinary aspirations. A walk-in closet was also lacking, and kind of a whim was a cosy library which could accommodate a sizeable book collection of the future residents.
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a pa r t m e n t p l a n
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design
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1 3 1 entryway 2 living room 3 kitchen 4 toilet 5 bathroom 2
6 library 7 bedroom
As the clients demanded, the kitchen is now smoothly stepping into the living room and thus is undoubtedly a part of the daytime area where kitchen island is both the workspace and the dining table. Custom made wardrobe spreading along the entire length of the living room’s wall provides the ability to hide a whole mass of owners’ different size stuff. In the night zone walls dividing two rooms have been removed to create one large bedroom with a walk-in closet and a small library. The bathroom, originally accessible only from the daytime area, is now available from the night zone, while the standalone toilet has been separated to an ad-hoc use.
axonometric sections
kitchen island/
balcony
living room
dining table
bedroom
walk-in closet
kitchen
entryway
toilet
bathroom
library
custom made wardrobe
detached housing development in the “DIY” modular system
project t ype
housing development, modular homes l o c at i o n
any suburban area in Poland d e s i g n d at e
2014 i m p l e m e n tat i o n s tat u s
concept investor
wanted designed area
from 60 to ~280 m²
This project was created in response to the drastic inconsistency of emerging housing developments of detached houses in our country. Examples of those well-designed, with a coherent architectural thought are true singletons. The reason is simply the nature of Polish people involving their tendency to work out a tacky and shady solutions and dissatisfaction resulting from a lack of choice. From the perspective of an architect it looks like this: either the client is aware and willing to trust the often radical vision of the designer, or those choose a stock house which they will adjust to their needs in a dream way. Unfortunately, the latter constitute the majority among those Poles who decide to own a house. Nobody, however, does take into consideration that we may try to change this state of affairs, but step by step. My concept is an attempt to aesthetic education of successive generations. I believe that it is possible to persuade at least some people to the philosophy of
visual consistency of the environment, even though some of these people at this time would unprecedentedly assert their distinctness by massacring architectural design to the limits. If not constrained, Poles – whether it’s about renovating their homes or building them on their own – love to play in joyful creators. So maybe, if only they could be given a try at flexible tools that have some limitations, then results could turn out surprisingly positive.
o b s e r v e d s i t u at i o n : reusable designs
Each stock house design can be purchased by any number of customers, that results in a lack of architectural diversity on a national scale. Once such a design is bought, customer quickly realizes that the roof over his head, the two bedrooms, the living room, the bathroom and the kitchen in a random configuration don’t make up their dream house. That’s why so many of them implement innumerable modifications to the initial design, which at this point are strongly limited by already imposed structure and installations.
o b s e r v e d s i t u at i o n :
housing development mishmash
The so-called uniform housing developments are consistent, but for many Poles too limited in terms of individuality of their own home. As a consequence patchy housing developments emerge one after another. These, by contrast, are a patchwork of various, stylistically inconsistent projects and give their owners only ostensible freedom of customization of their own house’s design.
proposed solution of the problem
modular space for house design
greenery around the house
• total lot area of 415,30 m² • grid with an area of 149,7 m², where customer designs own house • ability to create internal walls in the middle of the module
House design would be developed by the customer in collaboration with an architect within the adopted system capabilities and constraints. The templates of model houses would be the starting point, but to adapt the project to the individual customer’s needs, and at the same time to satisfy his creative ego they would be entitled to propose modifications which could be subsequently verified by an architect, and eventually corrected if necessary.
e x ample of a 60 m ² modul ar house
the smallest possible residential area within the system
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2 5
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1 vestibule 2 bathroom 3 anteroom 4 bedroom 5 living room 6 kitchen
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Example house solutions of various living areas with a different number of rooms and toilets, depending on an individual needs of the users.
10 5 m ² s i n g l e - s t o r y h o u s e
entrance daytime area: living room connected with kitchen and dining area bathroom or toilet wardrobe or walk-in closet staircase vestibule, anteroom, corridor or hall rooms: study room, guest room, bedroom, etc. terrace or balcony
83 m ² si n gle - s to ry h ouse
94 m ² s i n g l e - s t o r y h o u s e
13 2 m ² t w o - s t o r y h o u s e
70 m² ground floor
62 m² first floor
161 m ² t w o - s t o r y h o u s e
91 m² ground floor
80 m² first floor
Many of the elements comprising the final design would provide the target group with a kind of leeway — a sense of freedom within the given system. People like to have a choice but when it is too wide, uncertainty quickly slips into their minds, resulting in hasty, often wrong decisions.
d o o r m o d u l e va r i a n t s
single door for inner partition walls
double door for inner partition walls
single door for load-bearing external walls
double door for load-bearing external walls
100x300 cm window
220x300 cm window
w i n d o w m o d u l e va r i a n t s
220x140 cm window
310x140 cm window
entrance door roof
carport
• left or right orientation, depending on a location of an entrance door
• left or right orientation, depending on a location of an entrance door
• height adjusted to the a singleor two-story house height
• module made of the corian, color to choose
• module made of the corian, color to choose
f a c a d e va r i a n t s
single-story house
transparently-impregnated Siberian larch
mineral plaster in the color of ecru
two-story house
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