Apartament block Spacerowa 8

Spacerowa, Piasta I, Białystok, Poland

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Apartament block Spacerowa 8

Spacerowa, Piasta I, Białystok, Poland

Firm

Meteor Architects

Type

Residential › Apartment Multi Unit Housing

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2013

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

The neighboring housing is varied: prewar wooden houses and high, big blocks of flats. This heterogeneous context was questioning the climate of this area. As an answer, we decided to create a building with distinguished character loosely inspired by the context.

The building’s eastern wall folds up, creating a withdrawn last level that is covered by the roof parted in three pieces. This action, together with the extension of the wall outside the building’s outline and the shapes of balconies and balustrades, gives the concrete a dynamic character. To underline this effect, materials of different variety were used. The eastern wall and the sixth floor are finished with gray aluminum sheets, and boards and white plaster dominate the remainder of the floors. At the client’s request, large areas of the balconies and terraces, as well as glazing joining them with the internal space, increases the functionality of the apartments. On the top floor are four penthouses, which have 10-foot ceilings.