At night, when the chiaroscuro does not work, the first plan is made up of glowing drops of openwork. The building grows out of the ground and is not to be separated from it by any band. In the process of patinating the ceramic material, the line of contact with the ground should become more and more blurred, and the colors of the roof and wall surface should be joined together. The green roof, over time, will have a plant cover and colors will start to harmonize making the house and the natural surrounding as one.
Description of project by Toporjekt
Rudy Wielkie's Cistercian compositions are a vast area found in Upper Silesia, between the cities of Gliwice, Rybnik, Racibórz and Kędzierzyn Koźle. The foundation was created as a result of the fishing and forestry economic activity of the Order, which has been carried out since the 13th century. According to the Cistercian rule, based on the principles of ecology and respect for nature, the construction was based on local materials easily accessible: wood and bricks. In Rudy and its surroundings, you can find many examples of brick buildings made with expertise.
A contemporary dimension was given to the traditional technology that is currently being completed.
The building is located on the edge of a vast forest clearing, on the corner of the area designated for the development of a single-family house, designated by the new SPD. The houses that have already been created leave no illusions about the future architecture of the urbanization, so the interior is totally oriented towards the virgin forest.
The square brick cube of the house has undergone three simple treatments.
The western wall lay down towards a garden enclosed by a forest wall, creating a terrace accessible from the living room, the dining room and the master bedroom.
The southeast side of the side of the farm was hollowed out, thanks to which a closed entrance courtyard was created surrounded by brick walls.
The northeast side was pushed up to create an attic covered with ceramic pieces. This part has two bedrooms and a fully glazed living room towards the forest. The flat part of the roof in the other quadrants was covered with a green roof.
The walls of the building were made of bricks from nearby brick waste sorted by hand. A variation of a cross link was used, in which two bricks side by side with heads on their sides are pushed on one side and pressed on the other side in relation to the face of the wall. This simple treatment significantly enriched the chiaroscuro work on the façade.
By completely removing the same pair of bricks, a draft wall was created, which concealed the openings in the windows that could break the clean structure of the façade. At night, when chiaroscuro does not work, the foreground is composed of bright drops of light.
It was a challenge to choose the natural one, prepared for the process of skidding the brick wall with a suitable ceramic tile. This time, the principle of using local materials was broken and the choice fell on a hand-made tile from Wielkopolska.
The building grows from the ground and should not be separated from it by any side. In the process of skidding the ceramic material, the line of contact with the floor should become increasingly blurred, and the colors of the ceiling and the surface of the wall should be joined. The green mantle, which will be grown only to the minimum extent, after a while, the type of vegetation cover and colors will begin to harmonize with the natural environment.
We live in a time when the prices of mineral water imported from far corners reach ten dollars per bottle. Stones, exotic wood and other finishing materials flow in containers from China, Brazil and Africa. The reaction in this state of affairs is the new economy based predominantly on local resources. By using native materials and traditional technologies, you can not achieve worse effects than the use of more sophisticated imported materials. It turns out that this attitude is extremely consistent with the attitude of the Cistercians, who founded their monasteries in difficult, humid and wooded areas, and that make these areas fruitful, established fishing ponds, orchards, gardens, built roads and houses that use only local resources according to the motto "pray and work".
