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Project: Broken House, Katowice
Architect: KWK PROMES
                      Robert Konieczny
                       Marlena Wolnik
Site Area: 3,500m2
Usable Floor Area: 330m2
Volume: 1,036m2
Design: 2000
Construction: 2002

The building is located on the outskirts of Katowice, near a forest, on a land deteriorated by 4th category mining damage, where tectonic faults are a possibility. Hence the connotation of uplifted layers of soil, interwoven with one another, which was the inspiration for the form of the house. Its structural design comprises rectangular solids contrasting with the ribbon – like structure, which winds around them after it emerges from the ground. It is the leitmotif of the building, combining a variety of functions: starting with the swimming pool to the living room with a fireplace and then to the bedroom upstairs.

A noteworthy feature of the ramp is the elemination of stoops. Such a solution was achieved by bening the sufrace of course, which made it possible to keep its outer edges straight, without bends typical for such structures.

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