The Działki Leśne District is located on a picturesque morainic hill, with the view on the city and the Gdańsk Bay. During the interwar period, this area became a place of extremely prolific activity of Gdynia's architects and constructors.
In a relatively short period (1929-1939), varied and modern villas and residential buildings were created here, with the predominance of modernist architecture, and a few examples of wooden architecture (mainly the Polish Highlander style and TBO [Housing Development Association] houses). Starting from the junction of Warszawska and Wolności Streets, it is worth taking a look at two apartment houses at nos. 1 and 5 Wolności Street. The latter, corner bulding is the Robert Kolka Apartment House. The entrance portals are decorated with a sgraffito decoration modelled on the Kashubian embroidery, the author of which was the owner's wife – Elżbieta Kolka. The heart of the route is the intersection of Słupecka, Pomorska and Urszulanek Streets. Here we can admire the tenement house of Antoni and Bronisława Konopka (at 9 Słupecka Street), designed by Stanisław Ziołowski in the style of expressive functionalism, or a tenement house from 1933 (11 Słupecka Street), with an intriguingly fragmented, asymmetrical shape (designed by Władysław Madeła) crowned with a porthole.
On the route we will find numerous examples of original villas and modernist houses from the 1930s, including the Żukowski Family Villa (at 5 Tatrzańska Street, designed by Jerzy Müller), the Wacław Bursztynski Villa (8 Tatrzańska Street, designed by Tadeusz Jędrzejewski), the Józef Sozański Villa (30 Nowogrodzka Street) or the Wacław Szczeblewski House (18 Pomorska Street). The last two projects were created according to the designs of Zbigniew Kupiec who cooperated on the Szczeblewski House with his experienced colleague – the architect Tadeusz Jędrzejewski. Two facilities in Nowogrodzka Street should draw our attention. At number 24, the Alojzy Pawelczyk Villa, built according to the design by Stanisław Żwirski, shows originally preserved plaster, and at number 41 we will find the house of Juliusz Rubel (designed by Władysław Grodzieński), the shape of this building being one of the most interesting in the residential architecture of the pre-war Gdynia.
