SUPERSTRUKTURA. Architecture studio, Kraków, since 2017.
We design at every scale — from a single building to a piece of the city. We lead each project from the first sketch to architectural supervision on site. Every one of them gets one hundred per cent of our commitment.
Five stages. Every project goes through each of them.
Sketch / the gesture — a first response to the site and the brief, before any calculation. Pencil, iPad, sometimes a piece of foam or a sheet of cardboard.
Analysis / light, climate, context, people, regulations. We test whether the idea holds up.
Form / we work mainly in the digital model, and where the form needs to be tested physically, we build a scale model. Parametric design in Rhino and Grasshopper lets us control geometry that cannot be drawn by hand. We keep expanding our own library of scripts.
BIM / the building information model. Depending on the needs of the project, we also coordinate structure, services and interiors in it. This is where form becomes a building.
Construction / documentation, architectural supervision, handover.
No stage is a formality. A concept that does not pass one of them goes no further.
Architecture begins where building is no longer enough.
What sets it apart from mere construction is the idea. We protect it from the first sketch to handover. For us, a finished concept is a building that can be built: the idea passes through structure, regulations and budget — and comes out legible. We know how projects die on site, which is why we see them through to the end. We meet deadlines. Always.
Buildings change how people feel. We design with that in mind.
Algorithms and artificial intelligence speed up our work, but two moments remain human: the gesture at the beginning and the judgement at the end — the impression a space makes on a person. We use images from D5 Render to test that impression before the building exists.
We also design for the drawer. Deliberately.
Not every concept is meant to reach a building site. Those that do not pass every stage remain ideas — and that has value too. In the drawer we test forms nobody has commissioned yet, and scripts nobody has asked us for. Some of them later return in real projects.
This is our team's track record, including years spent at other studios. We know what happens to a project once it leaves the studio — which is why we can design boldly.
Founder and lead architect.
In his diploma project, Melbourne N-S 2047, he designed a new city centre for the Australian metropolis, for several hundred thousand residents. He is the author and co-author of several dozen buildings of various types and scales.
We are interested in buildings that mean something.
For the place where they stand and for the people who use them. Bold in form, sometimes wild — always thought through to the end. We work with clients who expect more than a correct building.