"The residence occupies the landscape sensitively, and takes shape as a contemporary home that humbly settles into its surroundings. From the outset, the architects set aside the idea of a compact, centralized mass. Instead, they proposed a low pavilion that traces the existing vegetation. The house reads as a horizontal presence filtered through trunks and branches, its perimeter adjusting to preserve the character of the plot. The building frames the existing trees on-site, allowing them to remain the main spatial markers."
"True to its name, the plan of PL.architekci's S House follows an S-shaped curve, a direct response to the density of the forested plot. The design team develops this geometry to accommodate a generous residential program while maintaining the integrity of the site. By bending the footprint, the house moves between trees and creates pockets of garden that press close to the glazing."
S House by PL.architekci sits within a mature, wooded site on the outskirts of Poznań, Poland, and adopts a low pavilion that follows the existing vegetation. The design abandons a compact mass in favor of an S-shaped plan that moves between trees and creates intimate garden pockets adjacent to glazing. Glazed corridors run along the plan's bends, making circulation feel like an outdoor walk with shifting views of bark, foliage, and sky, and blurring interior-exterior boundaries. Local regulations necessitated pitched roofs, prompting an accordion-like folded roof that introduces rhythmic ceiling geometry and a zig-zagging exterior profile.
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