Brickpine Residence
A residence among pines, brick and a living roof
This house in Poland is composed of two clearly distinct volumes that contrast deliberately in their materiality and height. A low, single-storey bar with a green roof and a warm red-brown brick cladding extends horizontally into the landscape, anchoring itself within the established vegetation of pines, grasses and boulders. A second, taller volume with dark metal cladding and a pitched roof complements the ensemble and introduces a vertical tension. The garden is carefully composed: stone gardens, water surfaces, ornamental grasses and a Japanese maple frame the exterior space and create a sequence of viewpoints around the house.
ARCHITECT
PARTNER
PHOTOGRAPHER
Sylwia Gudaczewska
PRODUCT
- minimal windows® between brick and garden
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The minimal windows® sliding systems play a central role in the single-storey bar. Spanning as continuous glass bands between the floor slab and the projecting brick parapet, they dissolve the boundary between interior and garden. The slender, dark-coated profiles integrate precisely into the material language of the black metal details and recede visually. Inside, the full-height sliding panels open the living space to an unobstructed view of the garden, the oak floor extending visually onto the terrace. The floor guide rail disappears almost entirely at the transition between parquet and exterior paving, the threshold is barely perceptible, the spatial flow remains uninterrupted. Where two sliding elements meet at the glass-to-glass corner, the construction requires no structural post, and transparency is fully preserved in both directions. The result is a living space that connects directly with its garden in every season and at every hour of the day.
