Ewa Kaszuba frames villa in Polish spa town with larch veranda

A timber veranda frames a courtyard at House for Ela, a home by Switzerland-based architect Ewa Kaszuba on a forested site in a spa town near Warsaw.

Designed for a retired couple, the house is a modern take on the grand parkland villas that rub shoulders with modernist mansions in Konstancin, a 19th-century town approximately 20 kilometres south of the Polish capital.

Kaszuba was commissioned to design a house to replace an existing 1930s villa...