| You would like to set up a studio or need more space for your parents who require constant care. If you have a house in a garden, you are halfway there. Instead of an extension to the house, you can treat yourself to something extra: a modern, fully equipped house. Ready, delivered straight from the factory. Its positioning on the lot takes just one day.
A UFO that landed in the garden. This is how you could describe this unusual house. This is because one of suburban Krakow lots has been visited by a grey and red structure on four steel legs. It looks like it has only just extended stairs and a platform allowing you to enter it. Its shape suggests something temporary, architecture for lodging in more than residing in. From afar, some will even see a similarity to a container. Alas, they could not be more wrong.
This is no house substitute. It meets all construction and environmental standards of state-of-the-art houses, except that it was built in a factory. Its walls are of LECA concrete, the load-bearing structure is steel, and together with all the systems (waste water, electrical, heating etc.) it is assembled on a production line. What is more you can order a fully fitted out version: with flooring, doors, kitchen cabinets, white goods and furnished bathrooms. Then a crane lowers your ready home - with the chandelier swaying slightly - right onto the lot. The fitting of the 43 m2 house takes one day. The lead time until the ordered design is manufactured is four months, which is the average wait for a new car tailored to your requirements to be produced. But the house is not preceded by any stress due to the construction site, supervising crews or the huge clean-up. Nobody suffers, and especially not the nature, because the house practically does not disrupt the ground.
The Grandparent House developed by the Buma Group has been erected in a picturesque quarry in Rząska by Krakow. This is a show house for demonstrating it to potential buyers. The Company's offer includes more than a dozen houses like this one, called Bumati Plus.
The Bumati concept was born in the head of Jacek Michalski. He says that the Grandparent House is the ideal solution for families living in detached houses with some surrounding land, who would like to take their aging parents under their wing and guarantee them the appropriate quality of life - closeness and independence at the same time. The house has a large living room connected with a modest kitchen, a bedroom with a row of built-in wardrobes and a bathroom. Everything you need in life, in a compact package. The interiors were designed by Paulina Remi-Michalska and Agnieszka Osuch of the Signatura Design House. The layout is extremely functional, the furniture is only essential, but of great looks, the colours are cheerful. But consider the views! There are large glazed areas, and we all know that old people sure like to look out their windows. Here they can do so without moving much. Every place in the house affords some view of the outside (anyway, the glazing can be customised to the specific lot at the design stage).
"But will an elderly person feel at home in such a designer interior? We all know how our grandparents usually live" - I start to wonder.
"This is a house for a real cool granddad" - Jacek laughs. Then he adds in a serious tone: "I think we somewhat underestimate the older generation. They have frequently gone through so much, they find it easier to adjust to modern conditions. Here, the conditions are definitely the ultimate in comfort. In addition, the interior can be arranged freely, a culture mix is very fashionable. We are showing a selected, classically modernist version."
I am looking at the exceptionally comfortable felt sofa, huge windows, gleaming doors of kitchen cabinets and thinking of my mum quite a few years from now. She would sure be delighted by this house.
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