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Seaside House

Ultra Architects completed a house on the Poland’s Baltic Sea Coast, a monolithic shell made of reinforced concrete, trying to make best use of its qualities and creating a coherent wholeness overlooking the beautiful seaside landscape.

Ultra Architects completed on the Poland’s Baltic Sea Coast a house designed as a monolithic shell made of reinforced concrete.

This kind of construction secures safety, geometric stability and tightness. The structural material is used also as a natural finishing in the interiors. Concrete has become a leitmotif of the whole design, also determining aesthetic solutions in interiors. Gray color and a rough texture of concrete are balanced with whiteness of some internal walls and bright, wooden floors.

Exterior cladding of elevations is made of screw-in vertical boards, achieving a characteristic reversal – warm wood on the outside and rough concrete with imprints of a formwork inside a house. The third material is a sheet metal. Window-frames and all other exterior metal elements were designed using a graphite color.

The house is built in a coastal town, on a plot of land located just behind sand dunes, replacing an old building, too small and architecturally unattractive. A new cubical volume was inserted in the place of the former residence saving all the pine trees growing all over the plot.

Seaside house is characterized by an entrance area with two entry points located in both eastern corners of the building, adjacent to the road. South-West and North-West elevations are surrounded by a wooden terrace with a built-in barbecue stove.

Each storey acts different function. The ground floor is an open space for daily home activities. First floor serves leisure and entertainment functions. It is divided into two sections: the bigger one, facing the sea, it's the owners’ private zone. It contains a small living room, a bedroom, a wardrobe and a bathroom. In the southern part of the floor there are three identical guest rooms with their bathrooms. Basement accommodates storage and technical facilities as well as the swimming pool.