Kraków, Poland
2022-2023
@bxbstudio_boguslaw_barnas
Wienerberger, Multiko and studio BXB competed together for the title of the best building in the world at the World Architecture Festival finals in Singapore.
1. WAWEL DRAGON
2. GARDEN UNDER AND ON TOP OF THE BUILDING
The Cave House will have two gardens – one forested in the Cave – under the building, the other in the shape of a waving field located on the roof.
3. DRAGON FACADE AND DRAGON EYE
4. INNOVATIVE ENTRY PORTAL
5. A CHIMNEY LIKE NEVER BEFORE
6.TERRACE WITHOUT BALUSTRADE LEVITATING ABOVE THE ROOF
7.PRIVATE COTTAGES
Interestingly, the living area of the house has the character of a modern, modernist, fully glazed interior, while the first floor is formed by spaces of smaller rooms whose interiors resemble cosy chalets covered by a two-sided roof.
8. NATURAL LIGHT IN THE BASEMENT
9.ECOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
10. TUNNEL + CAVE
11. BIOPHILIC + DESIGN + TRADITION
The Cave House – is a building whose unique and innovative design is a derivative of ecological functional and spatial ideas and the principles of the so-called human-centered biophilic design, i.e. architecture focused on human health and well-being. These two issues – modern design and eco elements become an inseparable, coherent unity here. Moreover, they refer to the local tradition, history of the place, the nature of the surrounding landscape and the principles of sustainable development.” Bogusław Barnaś