IDEA/CONCEPTOne of our first projects was the country residential house
for a creative young couple (he is a writer, she isa photographer), whose desire was
to embody a simple, but at the same time, the original idea within a limited
budget. We faced a targetto project/design the project of/ the house where they
could spend their weekends, and have far-away-from-city, inspiration-gaining,
enjoying-the-nature breaks. They bought a small-sized plot of land of an irregular
shape that perfectly suited our target: the outskirts of the forest, rather a
convenient location in relation to transport routes, not far from the city.The Customers have sharedourviewsonarchitectureandtrusted us in full, what happens not that frequently.It was decided torepulse from the pithymanner of projecting anda simplelayout. We applieda principle ofopenspaces:nopartitionbetween the kitchen and livingroom.We also used a principle of functionally transformable areas(living
room
penetrates into bedroom, and kitchen into dining room) and they were located alongside the backbone /main transit way/
of the house.The oakwood nearby entered the firstalterationsto theoriginalformandlayout of the house(step 3 ofthe scheme shows the uniformal dialoguewith theenvironment).The westernwall ofthe house was projected to be blind,asthe neighboring house is tooclose tothe border of the area. To improve on the incoming sunlight we decided to increase the window
embrasure at the south front face with slightly rising the roof (step 4 of the
scheme). Thus the part of the roof got a slope and became more dynamic.Shallowfoundations andmetalsupporting frameworkreduceconstruction costs.The project considers the useof ecological materials. Oak boarding painted white is also
applied for terrace finishing. Frame exterior boarding is carried out with lacquered
ash tree.Due
to applying an
open-planandfunctionally transformableareas we managed to create a comfortable residential house of 77 m2
area (including20m2ter). This project allowed our
architectural studio to bring to life one of the ideas, namely the creation of compact,
cost-efficient and ecofriendly housing witha
rational design approach based on client’s initiative and individuality.