Krzywy Domek or Crooked House: Marries Expressionistic

In Sopot, Poland, a building is erected that challenges the conventions of any architectural school, as also of the optical conventions, this is the Crooked House, built in the nearby one 2003.

With the plans of Marcin Szancer and Per Dalhberg, as well as the exotic designs of the Catalonian one Gaudí were done the bases of this more not monumental, extravagant and complex building.



Which doll house, gloomy and gloomy, the Crooked is presented House, worthy building of a movie of horror that trembles until to the most reckless one to full light of the day, although the object of his construction be opponent to the sensations that produces. The purpose of the one that speak is the diversion and happiness of who be going to visit the precinct, but the proportions of the same one do not seem to be the most suitable for the revelry and the divertimento. Even so, the Crooked House is a place that justifies the visits to own risk of what can produce to its sensibilities.

This eccentric building was carried out thanks to the initiative of the Polish architect Szotvnscv Zaleski, who was inspired in the sketchs of the personalities before mentioned, that serves as central zone of the main place of distension of Sopot, where abuts with coffees, bars and some boutiques.



Somewhat convenient it is that is a building whose kindnesses can be captured with a photography of its façade, very alluring and unreal, that causes opinions found. This Crooked House seems removed of the scenography of some characteristic movie of the German Expressionism, that reigned in the rooms Germans by almost the totality of the decade of the ’20, of last century. Its proportions, its design and its murky color insert perfectly in the characteristics of that popular current of the past, where the histories of suspense they were predominated and horror. From there the image of anxiety that can reflect in some perspectives, as of the one that writes.

In spite of being the attraction only that monument, takes advantage of to be launched diverse quantities of souvenirs commemorative of that, now, tourist place; before, simple plaza of meetings by the diverse coffees, bars and places of relajamiento that over there are located since long before.



As illustrative data projection that the name known by the localities of the Crooked House -that is to say, its official name, in the language compatriot- is Krzywy Domek, that passed to Spanish signifies “Camera Krzywy” or Camera Crooked”.

If it is that they walk by Poland, they lose not the opportunity to pass for Sopot to witness a diaphanous sample of architectural genius.