Monthly Archives: July 2012

“The Safe House,” designed by Polish Architect Robert Konieczny at KWK Promes is pretty much the perfect zombie-proof construction. This house is real and is situated in a small village at the outskirts of Warsaw. Its design is essentially a giant concrete cuboid that unfolds origami-style to reveal a very modern living environment.

“The clients’ top priority was to gain the feeling of maximum security in their future house, which determined the building’s outlook and performance.

The innovation of this idea consists in the interference of the movable walls with the urban structure of the plot. Consequently, when the house is closed (at night for example) the safe zone is limited to the house’s outline. In the daytime, as a result of the walls opening, it extends to the garden surrounding the house.

The sliding walls are not dependent on the form of the building. That is why this patent can be applied to both modern and traditional, single- and multi – storeyed houses covered with roofs of different geometry.
This universal solution we came up with gives a new type of building where not the form but the way of functioning is the most important. The name: „safe house” gains a new meaning now.”

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