Tysha
Architecture Lviv — Warsaw
Est. 2014 Now: 24 dB
Inside Pine Court
Pine Court: three travertine and larch houses stepping down a pine slope to a lake, a woman sitting on the steps of the first

Pine
Court

Three houses, one family, three silences.

Pine slope above a lake · 2025
3 × 96 m² · A family compound
24 dB inside, on average20 min to Lviv40 m between the houses02 / 02 cases
01 · The briefThree households · one slope

One family, three houses, and nobody hears anybody.

The family
Parents, two grown children, guests

Andriy and Iryna wanted their children close, but not under one roof. Three small houses instead of one large one: each with its own door, its own view and its own silence.

02 · The slope31 dB on the path

We placed the houses by ear.

Three days with sound meters on the slope. The houses step down it, each turned a little, so no window looks into another and every bedroom faces the lake.

From above: three small houses along a winding path through the pines, down to a jetty on the lake
SLOPE_FROM_ABOVE.JPG3 houses · 1 path
40mBetween the houses
31dBOn the path, by day
24dBInside, on average
03 · The houses96 m² each · two floors
Inside one house: a double-height travertine living room, a tall narrow window to the pines and the lake, a spiral stair

Small, tall,
turned away.

Each house is a travertine cube with a larch wing. Downstairs, one double-height room and a window as tall as the pines; upstairs, the bedroom, under the roof and away from the path.

04 · MaterialsStone, larch, dry walls

What the slope already had.

Travertine for the walls, larch for the wings and the ceilings, and dry-stone walls from the plot to hold the terraces. Gravel on the paths: you hear someone coming, softly.

A travertine corner and a larch wall in the mist, a dry-stone wall and a gravel path
05 · MeasuredThe first winter

Each house, its own number.

  1. 01The parents’ houseLowest on the slope, nearest the water.23 dB · night
  2. 02The children’s houseIn the middle, turned toward the jetty.24 dB · night
  3. 03The guest houseAt the top, by the gate, the first to hear the road.25 dB · night
  4. 04The path betweenGravel, pines, the lake below. Loud enough to know you are not alone.31 dB · day
Next · Lull House21 dB · 30 min to Lviv
Lull HouseA long house on a forest lake · 2025 · Read the case →
06 · Your plot25 dB · in the contract
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