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This house features a private mountain trail that defines its philosophy. Its simple form is inspired by local wooden huts, while its color and texture blend seamlessly into the snowy mountain landscape. The roof is clad in titanium-zinc sheet metal, and the façade is composed of individually designed openwork panels that allow the house to be freely opened or closed. After dusk, it resembles a glowing lantern. A steel footbridge suspended above the living room leads to an outdoor viewing platform. This unique relationship with the landscape is what inspired the name of the house: The House with a Private Giewont. It is more than just a modern building. It is a consistently realized idea of a mountain trail, a concept of connection with nature, tradition, and the local landscape.
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Set on a scenic plot in Kościelisko village, this house is both a creative reinterpretation of Podhale region's traditionalarchitecture and a tribute to the Tatra Mountains landscape—especially the iconic hiking trail to Giewont Mountain. The design metaphorically reflects a mountain hike, shaping not only the surrounding path and garden, but above all, thehome's core: a vertical circulation layout that culminates in a spectacular view of Giewont. The form of the House with a Private Giewont draws inspiration from traditional wooden shepherd's huts common in the Podhale region of southern Poland. Its color, texture, and materiality evoke the Tatra landscape—grey, rugged rocks and snow-covered white peaks.
The facade is composed of mobile, openwork panels. A custom perforation pattern filters natural light, reflects the snow-white color palette of the Tatras, and references local ornamental motifs. At night, integrated lighting turns the house into a glowing lantern, with interior light shining through the panels and subtle external lighting hidden in the arcade’sstructure. The panels, mounted on automated systems, can open and close freely. This façade also acts as a secure enclosure, allowing the building to close in on itself, forming a boundary aligned with the smallest possible perimeter.We also designed the garden using local rocks and mountain pines. The landscaping is low-maintenance and blends with the mountain scenery. Boundaries are defined subtly through natural materials.
Inside, the concept of a mountain trail is reflected in a dramatic circulation spine: a black steel structure winding through all four levels. At its peak, a bridge crosses above the living room, pierces the glazed gable wall, and extends into an outdoor viewing platform. The entire house is designed around this path, which is visible from nearly every room—even the garage, thanks to a glazed ceiling over the underground floor. The result is a house deeply rooted in its environment, emotionally and physically. The main living space, with the best view, is placed on the upper floor. A fully glazed gable wall frames the Giewont peak, integrating it into the interior and reinforcing the home's mountain atmosphere. From the panoramic living room, the path continues up to a mezzanine and the bridge. Suspended by three thin steel cables and anchored discreetly into the window framing, it creates a surreal effect of floating above the interior. The bridge gently rises, and its steel railing gradually disappears, becoming fully glazed as it transforms into the final outdoor platform—set at the ridge of the roof. In this house, Giewont becomes an inseparable part of the building—both literally, as it shapes the interior, and emotionally, as it allows one to experience the feelings evoked by the designed trail leading to a panoramic summit.
In this house, Giewont becomes an inseparable part of the building—both literally, as it shapes the interior, and emotionally, as it allows one to experience the feelings evoked by the designed trail leading to a panoramic summit.
BXB studio established by Bogusław Barnaś in December 2009 is an interdisciplinary design studio which attempts to creatively challenge issues in the fields of urbanism, architecture, art, design, graphics and publishing. In design work, the studio draws inspiration from Polish history and tradition, re-thinking traditional motifs and adapting them to contemporary design. In recent projects, the studio dwelled on folk notions such as the Zakopane Style or timber sacral architecture. In creative practice, BXB studio places great emphasis on the relationship between man and nature. At BXB studio we constantly search for beauty in our surroundings. We believe that our objectivity and wide range of creative activity allows us to create unique beauty as opposed to the repetition of trends or patterns. This approach, supported by trusted specialists in various fields, allows us to explore, develop, create and materialise the best solutions.
