BLACK CUBE HOUSE BY KAMELEONLAB

A simple shape full of contradictions

The Black Cube House project starts with the makeover of a 1970s home. A very common idea as we can imagine houses built at the time in Poland and in the rest of eastern Europe might not have aged so well. The owners wanted to double the size and volume of the house while incorporating the old structure of the building. Playing around the idea of the cubic shape of the original building, KameleonLab created a structure where space breathes and where the absence of some volumes (like the entrance or the terrace) is highlighted by the presence of color or a cubic steel frame. This generates an incredible feeling of space and balances the limited number of windows and openings due to the client’s wish for privacy. It also creates an invisible link between the garden and the house.

Inside, the idea of separate-yet-linked space is repeated. The ground floor is reserved for social life, whereas the top floor is a private sleeping area. Here again, separation between the two elements is gentle. The living room extends to the top floor where an opened balcony creates the link between the two areas. Emptiness and saturation, exposure and privacy, contrasts that find their existence in a sole graphic black cube.