I am an architect who focuses, above all, on sustainable design. In my work I combine various strategies to achieve it including the use and exploration of sustainable materials and systems, from wood and engineered wood to bio-based and bioengineered materials, implementation of technologies to reduce energy and water consumption, reuse of buildings and materials and other ways to reduce carbon footprint in the built environment and improve well-being of its users.
Over the last years of my education, especially during my master’s studies at the University of Washington, I have found and developed a passion for design on a whole different scale than before, working especially with furniture, but also with small architecture following a design-build approach. Here, too, my interest in sustainability is reflected in the possible use of locally sourced materials, including recycled ones, or construction in the spirit of design for disassembly. The creative process, from dealing with raw material, through achieving the dream design, which is a combination of general design assumptions and details, to seeing the final result and satisfaction of both myself and the target recipient, has become a real driver for me to create more and more new designs.
In addition to the architectural and technological aspects of buildings, due to my interest in Real Estate and the certificate I obtained in this field, I developed knowledge of their planning, maintenance and financial performance.
(Rainier)
Stream Urban Design
Meandering Line
Design
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Verdant (Rainier) Beach
Year 2023
Location Seattle, WA I United States
Academic (Master’s) I Personal Project
Verdant (Rainier) Beach is two projects completed as a part of the first and second quarter of the master’s degree program. Rainier Beach is a Seattle’s neighborhood known for its cultural, but also for its economic diversity, which now faces a major development opportunity.
The main urban planning objective was to create a small community center not only for the building’s residents, but also for other neighborhood residents and visitors by creating an inviting courtyard for the apartment building and maximizing the activation of the first floor space. Another premise was to activate Director Street by visually pulling the eye across the food bank dominating the street with an integrated, state-of-the-art vertical farm. This, along with a large brewery planned for the eastern corner of the residential building, would create an additional gathering place.
One of the main exercises of the project was to create a non-conventional structure out of Mass Timber, and thus a dynamic and full of cantilevers form of residential building was created. The functionality of the food bank, on the other hand, was to ensure maximum self-sufficiency and circulation of food, therefore an aquaponic vertical farm was designed in the building and numerous energy and water saving technologies were implemented.
Phase B
First Floor
Third Floor
Car & Pedestrian Connections I Green & Public Areas I Commercial Systems
Mass Timber Construction
Carbon Negative Wood Wall Panels
Low Carbon Intelligent Shading Devices
Green Roof and Terraces
Aquaponic Vertical Farming
Solar Panels
Stormwater Management Systems Advanced HVAC Systems
The next project is an urban proposal for Świętochłowice, a city that is located in the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union in Poland. The name of the project comes from the inspiration of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the thought of which the project was created, especially considering the existing character of the city. What we wanted to achieve was to orient the residential buildings to a pleasing view to the east, meanwhile improving the poor quality of the neighborhood to the west. This way of thinking led us to move the core of our residential neighborhood to the east, creating a green strip between the two neighborhoods filled with recreational areas. In the center of the neighborhood we planned a school and a retirement home emphasizing the social heart of the area.
S20C30
Year 2020
Location Świętochłowice I Poland
Academic (Bachelor’s) I Team Project
Public transport
Green Areas
lawns, shrubs and trees
The Stream
Year 2021
Location Katowice I Poland
Competition I Team Project
“The Stream” is an intervention project in the heart of Katowice – a metropolitan city in the industrial area in Poland. Situated by the river it is going to be a crucial element in the modern city center development. Our project connects town square and campus of the University of Silesia with the promenade constructed from Lunawood products. The tiered form of our proposal, resembling the water flow, creates high quality landscape architecture and serves numerous functions. It offers the possibility of being not only the promenade to walk through but also a site with additional functions. Among them, we can list a greenery place designed from wooden frames for growing plants as the city center of Katowice suffers a lot from lack of it. To sum up, the use of Lunawood products enabled us to connect the heart of Katowice with the nature back again and design convenient urban architecture.
Churning Water
Representing unattractiveness of the current place
Being the sign of upcoming changes
Resembling the multitude of people and activities taking place on the site.
main square
university campus
Project Site
Design Idea Still Water
History Line
Year 2020
Location Pessegueiro Island I Portugal
Competition I Team Project
The elements characteristic for the history of the island are situated there in a chronological manner. This feature was called: “The History line”, a line that should be proceeded. The project also required to study the spiritual aspect of the future concept. This allowed to grasp the meaning of such notions as contemplation, reflection and meditation, and understand the differences and similarities among them. The outcomes of the studies led to divide the Site Chapel into two, smaller objects, each representing different functions located sequentially in the historic “Line of the Island”.
The first part in a sequence of the Site Chapel is shared space. It serves as a platform for reflection and contemplation, individually and in a group. Shared space also widens perspectives and inspires to new ways of thinking. In its form, the architecture of the building refers to individual fragments, cubes and the quarry, and set in its border, it gives the impression of unity with the already existing part of the island. Light construction and sliding walls, which allowing for free manipulation of social and physical space, take a bold step in the future, which is exemplified by the Site Chapel.
The way to the second part of the Chapel is already opened by the previous one, which indicates a direction to a visitor. “Ferry” is the next stage of the journey. It symbolizes a stone jetty that was once supposed to join both the island, islet and the mainland. The distance covered in solitude is the beginning of the road to seclusion, which is the main objective of the second part of the building. At the same time, it provides a reference to the legend of the hermit living on the island. The form of the chapel seems simple. Four stone walls are designed in such a way so as to open up contemplation space on the elements that determine the climate and the character of the place: the ocean, Pessequeiro Island and the coast of Portugal. Diversity of these spaces allows one to deep travel to the inner core of the man soul.
Way in which the locals wanted to connect islands with islet and land
Site chapel as the reconstruction of the past efforts with islet and land
Closed - half-intimate space, focus on the another person
Open - common space, focus on the landscape
quarry and the rest of the island
Stairs connecting
Common chapel
‘Ferry’ connecting island and intimate chapel Intimate chapel
Frozen in Motion
“The devil is in the details.” Sometimes these details are proof of the architects’ craftsmanship. Some of them in their careers brought attention to the details to a different level, not limiting themselves to just the connections, materials and their structure or texture. Some, along with the buildings, designed their entire interiors, decorations and furnishings.
Furniture is just one such element that is, in a sense, a direct extension of the building, and moreover, its design process reflects, on a smaller scale, the design of architecture. Here, too, form, function, detail, connections and material matter.
“Frozen in Motion” is a very personal project in which my design language, characterized by the use of dynamic yet minimalist forms, is reflected. In this case, the shape of the table is a play with the geometry of the triangle, visible, not only in part, in the form of the table, but also dright as a whole in its detail. The carefully selected materials, a combination of Afrormosia and Sapele, and an oil finish, gave it an unusual reddish color that blends gracefully with the colors of wood in wide use in contemporary architecture.
Year 2023
Academic (Master’s) I Scan Design I Personal Project
Meandering Line
The purpose of this project was to create a furniture piece on your own in a rather limited time, in the class on advanced techniques of furniture design.
One of the main themes of the class was the Japanese art of joining. Free inspiration from the craft of masters from that country resulted in, at first glance, a simple design but also with many interesting connections, creating an intimate interplay of legs, beams and stretchers as well as a table top set on top of them, and divided into two parts.
An important element of this project was the use of local and off-the-shelf materials from the university campus, that is, Canadian Teak and Nothern Red Oak. A wood wax finish was used for the finish.
(Master’s) I Personal Project
Plum Pavilion
Year 2021
Location The Szeląg’s Garden, Poznań I Poland
Workshop I Team Project
Architecture
Portfolio
The ”Plum Pavilion” is the example of architecture designed during The International Mood for Wood Workshops. The team’s task was to plan and construct a small architecture in Szląg’s garden in Poznań. This is a unique place where the residents of the city gather from spring to summer and spend their free time on different activities ranging from chats over coffee to art workshops. Our project aims at designing space dedicated to some artistic meetings. The “Plum Pavilion” is the place where ceramics workshops will be held in the future. The place owes its name to the plum tree which grows on the site of intervention and which is enclosed by our pavilion.
