The building was designed by architects from the Trzop Architekci studio. The villa was built in 2023 in the Żoliborz district of Warsaw. It is modest, but is distinguished by its original brick façade. The material was imported from Belgium.
Żoliborz is the smallest district in Warsaw. Many people consider it to be the best. It is home to many single-family houses with a villa character, which make a unique impression in green surroundings. Walking along such streets, it is hard to believe that just a 10-minute drive is enough to get to the very centre of Warsaw.
Designing in Żoliborz, surrounded by other buildings, is not an easy task.
Theurban villa in Warsaw’s Żoliborz was an interesting challenge for our studio – the unusual requirements of the client, dense urban development in the vicinity of the protected landscape of the Warsaw escarpment, and a plot of small dimensions located at a considerable elevation in relation to the street required us to take a creative approach,” say the authors of the project.
The architects designed a simple body. Its characteristic part is the two wings. A private atrium was built between them. A large tree adorns the green space here. This zone is valuable because, despite the dense development, it provides a sense of privacy.
The atrium is completely glazed, so it has been possible to create a harmonious relationship between inside and outside and to fill the villa with daylight. It is the focal point of the house, adjacent to which are the internal communication and living room, as well as the light, self-supporting staircase leading to the first floor.
We decided to place the garage in the underground storey, which allowed us to make full use of the ground and first floor space, the architects add.
The villa has gained a spacious interior. The living room opens up with nine metres of glass to the west side of the garden with a terrace. The sculptural façade is impressive.
In reference to the climate of Żoliborz and Warsaw’s modernism, we decided on monochromatic colours for the façade. The façade is finished with Belgian hand-formed grey bricks and black titanium-zinc standing seam sheeting,” they conclude.
design: TRZOP ARCHITEKCI
design team: Bartosz Trzop, Jakub Staszkiewicz, Piotr Komorowski, Weronika Ośmiałowska, Kinga Gajewska
interior design: Paula Tworek
photography: Adam Marciniak
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