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Off-Grid Cottage in the Polish Countryside 7

Off-Grid Cottage in the Polish Countryside / Grzegorz Layer Architect

Kashubia is an unusually picturesque region in the north of Poland, rich in pine forests, meadows full of flowers, and crystal-clear lakes. Near one such lake – Lake Gowidliński –lies this place of repose and close contact with nature. The idea behind this off-grid cottage was to create a simple, functional and economic building

Lovely Weekend Home Incorporating Green Features: Compass House 11

Lovely Weekend Home Incorporating Green Features: Compass House

Located on the Niagara Escarpment, this weekend home for a family of six transcends ordinary domestic programming to create a place of spiritual resonance. Through its siting, tectonics and materiality, it balances intimacy and expansiveness, light and dark, land and sky — orienting and heightening one’s experience of the surrounding environment.

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