Golden A' Design Award Winner 2022
An architectural rendering depicts an A-frame cabin photographed during twilight, creating a scene of contemporary hospitality design within a coastal landscape setting. The overall impression is one of serene invitation, with warm light emanating from within the structure against a cool blue evening sky. Scanning from background to foreground, the distant sky occupies the upper third of the composition, rendered in gradients of soft cerulean blue suggesting the transition from day to evening, with wisps of cloud adding subtle texture. Mature pine trees frame both sides of the image, their dark evergreen forms creating natural borders approximately one-quarter inward from each edge, with heights extending from ground level to nearly the top of the frame. The central architectural structure dominates the middle ground, featuring a dramatically steep triangular roofline that rises to a sharp apex positioned at the image's vertical center. The building's framework consists of dark structural members, cool charcoal in color like aged iron, forming a geometric lattice that supports large glass panels. Through these transparent surfaces, the interior reveals warm amber and golden tones suggesting lamplight and welcoming hospitality space. Wooden furniture is visible within, arranged for dining and gathering. A horizontal deck platform extends outward from the cabin's base, supported by slender dark posts that elevate the structure perhaps one meter above the sandy ground, creating an airy sense of floating above the landscape. Rope railings line the deck edges, suggesting nautical influence and coastal context. The foreground presents pale sandy ground with scattered tufts of coastal grass in muted sage and straw tones, their wispy forms suggesting gentle coastal breezes. A weathered wooden boardwalk extends from the lower center of the image toward the cabin, its planks displaying the silvered texture of salt-weathered timber, providing a pathway that invites approach. The lighting creates a sensation of cool evening air outside contrasting with the implied warmth within, as if one might feel the temperature shift when stepping from the blue-tinted exterior atmosphere into the amber-lit interior space. The overall atmosphere suggests peaceful solitude, the quietude of a coastal evening, and the promise of shelter and hospitality.
This small diner on a Baltic Sea beach near Gdansk with its simple form fits naturally into the beach environment. The building offers two areas: an opaque part with windows and a fully glazed winter garden. The transparent glass house not only offers an unrestricted view of the sea and the beach but also uses solar energy in a passive way to improve indoor comfort in a relatively cool climate in northern Poland. The Solarlux system construction of the winter garden with its slim wood-aluminum profiles enables a filigree effect.