The Gambit building is conceived as a cost-efficient yet expressive industrial structure that directly reflects the company’s identity. Designed by Robert Konieczny, the project transforms economic constraints into a conceptual driver, using the imagery and logic of stacked pipes to define both form and structure.
The building brings together warehouse, workshop, and office spaces within a fragmented yet unified composition. Its volumes respond to both functional requirements and the surrounding suburban fabric, while the roof geometry emerges from the physical constraints of pipe arrangement. This results in a form that is simultaneously rational, contextual, and iconic.
The use of raw aluminium cladding reinforces the project’s pragmatic approach, offering a durable, low-maintenance solution that evolves over time. Environmental thinking is also present in the building’s lifecycle strategy and in the decision to allow ecological cohabitation within its structure.
In its formal expression and typological clarity, the project recalls the INAPAL Industrial Unit by Guedes de Campos Architecture | Menos é Mais office. Both projects share a direct translation of industrial logic into architectural form, a restrained material palette, and a careful balance between functional efficiency and contextual integration.
project: Gambit office
location: Gliwice, Poland
architecture: kwa promes
lead architects: Robert konieczny, Michał lisinski
typology: offices, industrial
site area: 714,84 m2
usable area: 943,42 m2
design: 2013
construction: 2024 > 2025
status: completed, built
photography: juliusz sokołowski
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