Architecture Wednesday: Hilltop House

This home, in Poznan, Poland, was designed to combine the investor’s dreams of mountains, winter sports, cars, and architectural solutions into what resembles a modern barn, encased by three slopes of a green hill, and sitting at the edge of the woods.

The love of cars resulted in the three-car garage equipped with a car jack and yet they didn’t want a garage that overwhelmed the house; the solution was the green hill that wrapped over the spacious garage, the mechanical rooms and a small office. On top of the garage came the primary suite and bath in the shape of a cozy mountain hut that actually opens on top of the “hill.”

The designers combined simple geometrical forms and shapes with natural materials, like wood and concrete, dark metal sheeting and large glazed surfaces  that worked well with eh surrounding forest and meadows.

Hilltop House’s light and spacious interiors are thoughtfully illuminated, and its slanted ceilings together with the mezzanine overlooking the ground floor creates a space and airiness overhead. While the interior design is based on a limited and organic color palette, the daylight penetrating through the large-scale windows and occasional sunny spots on the concrete floors become unique ingredients of retreat-like ambiance of the house. This is especially found in the living room which is dominated by wooden and concrete elements that add elegance and rawness, while at the same time, the light and the views create that sense of being in nature.

I always love a black house—it’s so slimming, you know—and I love the modernity of this and the manmade hilltop upon which the house sits.

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