Architects at KWK Promes Have Created the Ultimate Summer House...*

Architects at the prestigious firm KWK Promes have created a huge summer family house in southern Poland, featuring a ground floor lounge that completely opens up into the garden...*

The dream home uses glass partitions, mirrors and fake grass to seamlessly connect the living room area to its sprawling green spaces. The design team explained, “We live in the garden during the day and enclose ourselves in the cocoon at night – an idea derived from the past. Our ancestors would harvest food in daylight while sheltering in the trees at night. A living-garden restores the original order.’...*

To make things even more serene and peaceful, the ground floor was set parallel to the road to isolate the backyard garden from the traffic, whereas the first floor was shifted at 90 degrees to loom over the garden. A gabled red-brick form nods to the local area’s industrial heritage...*