![]() ![]() All the movable elements are based on built-in electric motors. Apart from these, there are large shutters – all 2.8m high, with width ranging up to 3.5m, and a drawbridge, leading to the roof terrace above the swimming pool.Ī giant roll-down gate closing the southern elevation also functions as a movie projection screen. The sliding walls (both 2.2m high, 15 and 22m long) are not the only mobile elements of the building. During the day, as a result of opening of the walls, it extends to the garden surrounding the house.Įven the staircase is built to be concealed until use:Īccomplishment of this idea required a lot of technically complex solutions. Consequently, when the house is closed (at night for example) the safe zone is limited to the house’s outline. The innovation of this consists in an interference of the movable walls into the urban structure of the property. After passing the gate one cannot enter the house or the garden any other way but through the main door, waiting in that safety zone, for its opening. When the house opens up for the garden, eastern and western side walls move towards an exterior fence, creating a courtyard. ![]() The body of the building is a cuboid in which parts of the walls are movable. This objective determined the building’s concrete architecture, outlook and performance. The most crucial concern for the clients was acquiring the feeling of maximum security in their future house. The Safe House is situated in a small village at the outskirts of Warsaw where the surroundings are dominated with usual ‘polish cubes’ from the sixties and old wooden barns. The private house was recently a shortlisted entry for the 2009 World Architecture News Awards. The Safe House by architect Robert Konieczny of Polish architecture firm kwk promes is a giant concrete cube whose walls were designed to move. What looks like a Modern Fortress with sliding walls is exactly that. ![]()
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