This single-family house in small village Kowanówko in west Poland was designed to complete an existing residential district. The form of the building refers to the surroundings architecture represented by “cubes” (so-called cubed single-family houses built in the 1970s) as well as to traditional gable roof houses. At the same time design of the building introduces a new quality to the district and connects Polish traditional architecture (gabled roof house) with socialistic past (cubed garage building) fulfilling current house owner's needs.A small house with garage has been designed to use the existing surroundings to create a sense of intimacy to its inhabitants. At the same time the idea was to keep continues exposure nature-garden.Therefore front of the plot was fully used - built while the garden elevation is almost entirely glass.
What is more this longitudinal garage building and a flanking wall of the neighbor's “cubed” house has created almost closed courtyard that is meant to be a garden zone. Interior has been designed so that the inhabitants could have a feeling of spatial daily area and a permanent contact with the garden.