Architects: 77 Studio
Area: 550 m²
Year: 2018–2024
Photography: Piotr Krajewski
Lead Architect: Paweł Naduk
Location: Jabłonna, Masovian Voivodeship
Country: Poland
House on the Edge, designed by 77 Studio Architecture, occupies a site in Jabłonna on the outskirts of Warsaw, where a quiet residential development meets the edge of a dense forest. Conceived between 2017 and 2018 and completed in 2024, the 550-square-meter residence is envisioned as a transitional link between two contrasting landscapes. The design adopts a sprawling, single-story form clad primarily in timber, allowing the villa to dissolve visually into the surrounding woodland. Organized as a series of planes, the architecture creates interstitial spaces for both domestic functions and intimate gardens, while extensive glazing ensures constant visual dialogue with the natural setting. By extending flooring materials outdoors and drawing vegetation into the interior, the house cultivates the impression of living directly within the forest. Carefully balancing privacy with openness, it reflects a restrained architectural language that reconciles suburban order with natural freedom.
The House on the Edge stands as an architectural meditation on thresholds. Designed by Paweł Naduk of 77 Studio Architecture, the project was intended not as a dominant object but as a mediator between the structured order of a suburban neighborhood and the organic expanse of the forest beyond. Located in Jabłonna, just outside Warsaw, the villa redefines the boundary between settlement and wilderness by staging a gradual fading of architecture into nature.
The residence assumes a single-story configuration that emphasizes horizontality and restraint. Toward the neighborhood, the house is reduced to two simple walls, forming a compact, closed volume that aligns with the local built fabric. Facing the forest, however, the architecture dissolves into a lighter, irregular composition articulated by planes of glass and timber. This shift in expression underscores the dual role of the building as both an extension of the community and a retreat immersed in the landscape.
The spatial organization follows the rhythm of the surrounding trees. Functions are arranged between walls and planes, creating sequences of interiors punctuated by patios and gardens. These voids introduce filtered light, maintain existing trees, and generate moments of intimacy. Extensive glazing eliminates visual barriers between interior and exterior, while the use of identical finishes for both interior surfaces and exterior cladding reinforces the impression of continuity. Floors extend outward, and vegetation penetrates inward, resulting in an atmosphere where architecture and forest interweave seamlessly.
The house privileges subtlety over spectacle. Its restrained palette, dominated by untreated timber, natural surfaces, and glass, provides a neutral stage for the play of light and shadow. The simplicity of form conceals a careful calibration of atmosphere, where shifting daylight, reflections, and seasonal change continuously reshape perception. Rather than competing with its setting, the villa withdraws, allowing the forest to remain the protagonist.
By proposing a model of luxury that is modest, refined, and deeply contextual, the House on the Edge challenges prevailing conventions of high-end housing in Poland. It suggests that prestige can be found not in scale or ornament, but in the quiet sophistication of architecture that respects and amplifies its natural environment.
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Address: Jabłonna, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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