RUBEDO

Rubedo builds future-facing houses for highly creative, considerate souls.

International Architecture Competition

The Home of
Shadows

3rd Prize Winner

Jury feedback summary:

The Home of Light explores the relationship between sunlight and spatial experience through a composition of contrasting volumes. The upper level is bathed in direct light, while the lower level, known as the Home of Shadows, remains recessed and introspective. The design is organized to capture the sun’s movement, employing devices such as angled windows, thick walls, and voids to modulate brightness and cast shifting shadows. Light is treated as a narrative element—marking time, revealing surfaces, and guiding movement. The house stages a transition between illumination and obscurity, using architectural form to choreograph sensory and temporal perception.

International Competition TEORIA Stefan Kuryłowicz Foundation

Mimesis

1st Prize Winner

Jury feedback summary:

The “Mimesis” takes up the theme of the virtual world and its consequences for architecture, a very timely one, especially after two years of a pandemic forcing the transfer of life from real to digital space. As the the author notes:

“In a completely new environment, where space and time do not exist in the traditional sense of things,the most utopian, futuristic and avant-garde projects can find the environment necessary for existence,a dream context and viable users. Although the Metaverse is yet to be defined, the seemingly fantastic and distant in time reality is beginning to become a reality.”

The topic has been, is and will continue to be exploited, but because of both the scale of the phenomenon and its constant flow and development, any reflection is valuable, as a record of the state of affairs. This one is all the more relevant because elegantly and clearly framed - in terms of style and illustration, the author's surreal graphics. According to the jury, these qualities of the work fully predestine it for the first prize in the THEORY competition.

Z. Zawistowski Competition held by The Association of Polish Architects

Wadi Rum Observatory

2nd Prize Winner

Jury feedback summary:

This work deserves to be recognized for its unique interdisciplinary study, the combination of knowledge from two fields: astronomy and architecture, and the result in the form of a functional technological facility with a mature, beautiful architectural form. The boldness of reaching all the way to the stars is sensitively realized by discrete footprints on the desert sand.

BrickAward Shortlisted Project

2+2 HOUSE

A place where I create

Piotrkowska 102

Studio Piotrkowska 102

Hidden in the attic of an apartment building, the studio is a solitary place where the light dancing across the ceiling is a source of constant inspiration. This is where your designs are created, and this is where you are invited to sit over the drawing table with me as a co-author of your home, your most important place on Earth. The work always includes observation of the scale model - visualizations are often a beautiful lie, so the physical model is the most important medium for making the right decisions. Light holds a kind of magic which a computer can't properly capture.