The Kontrapunkt Design Team made an
architectural and building design of a residential amenity-council building
called Sedum Apartment Building. It
was erected at the junction of Białostocka and Grodzieńska streets in Warsaw.
The project is located within the area
developed with buildings coming from the first half of the 20th
century, and the plot environment was formed, both in terms of urban planning
and architectural aspects, in the interwar period. The newly erected building
complements and organises the quarter.
Sedum Apartment Building refers to an
architectural tradition of the right-bank Warsaw and relates to classical
interwar modernism. The facade made of brick is to remind of the industrial
character of the district.
Two five-storey buildings, connected with an underground car park, were
designed with great care, including many details which discreetly underline the
beauty of the house such as, for example, brass plates with the building name
and the drawing of the sedum, pots for herbs in windows and on balconies or a
stained-glass frame with the image of Our Lady of the Herbs placed in the
staircase wall. To ensure welfare for the future tenants of this multi-family
house, the designers used the name of a popular herb, sedum, which, according
to folk traditions, was to protect against the storm and keep lighting away,
and that is why its twig was bricked into the foundations of the future
building.
