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Two-storey house-bath with a total area of ​​150 m2 on the banks of the Daugava River: architectural work with its own style and residential atmosphere.

Next to the bath is located in the same "environmental" style cozy "Chalash" with a hearth, designed for suites in the fresh air

Wooden table and stone stove - Full part of the composition. They closed the indoor courtyard of the bath and make this area of ​​the site quite complete and independent. The bath is standing on a peculiar wooden podium, a little reminiscent "potted" by the tree internal courtyards on the Baltic farms of the last century

The roof takeaway closes most of the terrace, a wide bench for relaxing after the bathhouse is placed. The second bench is made of the so-called "wild" material. Curved pine trunks on the back completely retained their natural shape, they were only cleansed from the bark and processed by protective wax

One of the windows of the fireplace hall is made in the form of a glass erker. Vehi is very bright, facing the garden zone is located a large dining table. The same Erker visually expands the inner space, "challenged" into massive logs

In the fireplace hall and floor, and wooden elements of facing the fireplace, and a decorative partition, simultaneously serving a hanger, and even the table with chairs are made of moraine oak

The fireplace is lined with flat stones assembled on the Baltic Sea coast. In order to be in this house, on the bank of the Daugava, they had to do the way in 200km

The fireplace using the Olsberg cassettes has a rather complicated design. This gives it an original appearance, but significantly increases the cost of the fireplace equipment. The fireplace has two independent fireboxes (one is intended for the bath, the other is for the recreation area) and immediately three opening doors. Two of them, facing the fireplace room, are made of heat-resistant glass so that the fire can be admired from the dining area and straight from the entrance door from the hallway

Almost all rooms are visible from the rest room. So, despite its external massiveness, inside the house in modern, "transparent" and filled with air

Corner for relaxing after the bath is furnished with wicker furniture made of natural rattan. Such items do not spoil under the action of a wet warm air of the bathroom satellite. This furniture is easy to easily, and in the summer it can be taken out under the open sky on the terrace or the river bank

Plumbing equipment Villeroy Boch (Germany) and ceramic tiles of the same company look exquisite simply. But such a choice of hosts raised the cost of the object

This pergola canopy is purely decorative, its function is to designate the borders of the terrace and complicate the external contour of a simple building configuration

It seems that a bench made of twisted pine logs is a fancy creature of nature, and not the creation of human hands

A fireplace with an open firebox is installed in a barbecue house. Here it is needed only to create an atmosphere of comfort, its duties are not included

Floor plan

"Right" bath must be such that it wanted not to be easy to wash. If you build a bathhouse as a separate building, then not an ordinary barn with a stove, and the present architectural work, which has internal and external harmony, own style and a residential atmosphere.

A small house bath on the banks of the Daugava River literally from the threshold enchants guest, there is a relaxing soul and body. What is the secret of this, at first glance, quite a traditional structure?

The first is, of course, stunning views from each window, and there are many of them in the house, and they are deliberately made big, even huge for such a building. Everywhere, as far as the eyes grab, the river, fields and the river again stretch. It seems that the house is not just in an intact, almost uninhabited place, but also in the other time, such an amazing silence and peace is spilled around.

The author is some reliability, the authenticity of the building itself. It was erected a couple of years ago, but it looks old, stood here not the same century and gathering to sleep as much as much as the same, without changing. The secret thing lies in the fact that the authors of the project- Architectors Vita Polkovnikov and Inna Kulikovskaya- and the chief builder of Carlis Apinis did not play old, did not stylized the house for the last century, and in fact they built it in accordance with the traditional Baltic aesthetics of the last century and Saved masters technologies of that time.

The construction of the building is traditional for these places, similar houses and baths built here and in the past, and in the last century. Actually, that is why the owner, a large lover of history, preferred such a simple facility, pulled to the roots, to the origins, wanted to try the vintage technologies. So, the house is fully made of wood and has no decorative wall decoration neither outside or inside. The log cabin is composed of logs, supracted by hand, so their thickness varies from one end to another. Previously, such treatment was used not only due to the lack of woodworking machines, but also for saving material. In this case, the owner did not pursue such a goal, he just wanted to get a simple, but exclusive home. Achto, how not handmade, makes the most common things the only of a kind?

In order to build a building from uneven logs, an old way to build a log house is applied alternately, then a narrow, then a wide end. At the same time, the logs come across each other so densely that it practically does not require additional material for sealing slots and insulation. However, here just in case, natural dry moss was laid. Please note: the rough surface of the logs, obtained after manual processing, is never covered with protective varnish, only with special oils or wax. The fact is that the lacquer applied to an uneven surface, with time it can crack, moisture falls into the crack, and the tree will begin to darken, and then rot. In the case, the tree is processed by impregnating "nostalgia" with bee wax (Tikkurila, Finland).

The foundation of the structure serves a rigid monolithic reinforced concrete plate, placed on a sand-brewed bulk "pillow" with a thickness of 40cm (make an in-depth foundation in places, so close to the river, is not recommended due to the proximity of groundwater). A sidew the surface of the foundation plate is laid out with a brown stone of local origin, and from the side of the terrace is hidden with a wide wooden flooring, or rather a podium with several steps.

The reed roof has a fairly removal. Thus, the part of the terrace is formed canopy, capable of protecting it from water and snow. Another part of the terrace is left without protection. It is the opinion that reed coverage is short-lived and designed only to countries where there is no winter. That is why in modern country construction it was replaced with tiles, iron, polymeric materials. Immediately say: it is completely wrong. No wonder today the roofs of the rooks are becoming popular, especially where this raw material is traditional, local.

Properly laid reed roof (bias-at least 35, the length of the stems - 1.5-2.2m, the thickness of the "ohapok" - 25-35 cm) perfectly protects the house from dampness, abundant precipitation, strong wind, retains inner heat. It applies such a roof to your owners at least half a century. At the same time, the cost of its arrangement is relatively low: $ 30-60 per 1m2. In addition, according to the owners of the House of Domika Bani, in buildings "under the reed", very special air and amazing, not like silence. True, you can only feel it in the room located right under the roof.

Four-sheet roof design allows you to organize a second floor suitable for housing. But, although in this house there are two full-fledged levels, only the first is actually used, where, in addition to the sauna itself, there is a fireplace room with a kitchen, a dressing room with a relaxation room, shower and two bathrooms (one next to the shower, the second in the recreation area). From the fireplace hall there is an output to the aforementioned partially covered terrace.

The attic is not yet equipped, it is not insulated and does not have natural lighting. Therefore, it is actively exploited only by the children of the owner and their friends who just adore on it to play. True, in the winter to do it is not recommended, since it is cold in the room.

In general, since it is about the bath, and not about a residential building, there are no heating systems designed for permanent maintenance of a comfortable room temperature. Outly, when the bath does not use, in all rooms the temperature is maintained + 10-15C. For this, in the cold season, there is enough electric heap floors. If you flood the fireplace, then, thanks to the system of forced convection, after 20-30 minutes, it warms up to + 20c throughout the house, and an hour later, the temperature reaches + 25c.

Closed fireplace

The air movement diagram heated due to contact with the fireplace topcoat, the fireplace is constructively different from its bricks. This is a fireplace with a metal furnace (cassette or insert), closed with glass doors, which provides him with several important advantages.

First, in such a fireplace, the glass door allows you to organize a supply and distribution of air so that most of the heat released when burning fuel is heating the room, and not put into the pipe. Secondly, in many models there is a hurry of gaseous products of combustion. Therefore, the efficiency of a closed fireplace is 2-3 times higher than that of the fireplace with an open furnace. Consequently, such a device can be used not only for decoration, but also as a full-fledged heating device. The principle of heating with a closed fireplace is based on the supply of air, which is heated inside the convection volume between the furnace and the walls of the instrument (facing). Single air ducts located in the floor or walls, hot air is supplied (asupotock, and the fan injected) into different rooms at home. At the same time, overlapping the air ducts, you can adjust the air flow in the room and, accordingly, the temperature in them. Thirdly, the closed fireplace is not so demanding on the characteristics of the chimney: the pipe can have a smaller cross section, less height and a large number of bends. True, more stringent fire safety requirements are presented to the chimney itself. So in closed fireplaces, the chimney has a double layer of insulation, and this increases the cost of the entire design.

Cassettes for fireplaces are distinguished by the design and location of the door. They can open a lobby or vertically up. The size and shape of the door itself is omitted, it can be rectangular, semicircular, prismatic, corner. Closed fireplaces do not require complicated installation, the installation of the foundation. Suitable for the heating of premises with an area of ​​not more than 100m2.

It should be noted that the fireplace in this case not only plays the role of the main heating device, but also performs an important planning function. This is a large stone-lined stone "Construction" is located in the very center of the house and occupies a rather significant area. Around it is all the main premises.

The bath is built turnkey in just 4 months. For a cut, this is a very short time. But it should be borne in mind that the log house did not "stand out" for shrinkage - because there is practically no interior decoration in the house, then the shrinkage did not fear. The only thing that could suffer is a ceramic tile on the floor and walls in shower and bathrooms. But on the walls, it is not laid straight on the logs, which is impossible, but glued to plates from waterproofing drywall, attached only to a single log and resting on guide bars.

As for the site where the bath is located, he is quite densely "populated". In addition to the big winter house and the bath itself, there is still a gazebo-slash with a fireplace, a stone stove and a table for picnics under the open sky. These facilities, besides their main function, perform another one- revitalize a huge territory, on which there are practically no adult trees. "Since the plot is located on the very shore, - they say the authors of the project, - its area is visually increasing due to water expanses. Husy people seek to buy as much as possible earth, in fact, most of them feel among open spaces, where the eye is not for having to cling. , uncomfortable. Initates the search for cozy secluded corners. So that the site does not look like a kind of desert, and I had to fill it with small, rejoices of the structures. "

In general, the comfort, the invitation to rest here is literally in everything and on the street, and in the "halary", and, of course, in the bath itself. Everywhere I want to linger, to stay a little longer. Maybe this is the secret of the Baltic bath scattered here and there on the banks of the river and the lakes, which in this region are a great set?

Enlarged calculation of the cost of work and materials on the construction of a two-story house (bath) with a total area of ​​150m2

Name of works	Units. change	Number of	Price, $	Cost, $
Foundation work
Takes up axes, layout, development and recess	m3.	56.	eighteen	1008.
Soil refinement manually, reverse fusion, soil seal	m3.	nineteen	7.	133.
Device of rubber base, pre-work and horizontal waterproofing	m2.	80.	eight	640.
Formwork, reinforcement, concreting (monolithic w / b plate)	m3.	23.	60.	1380.
Caution lateral isolation	m2.	22.	2.8.	62.
TOTAL	3223.
Applied materials on the section
Concrete heavy	m3.	23.	62.	1426.
Crushed stone, crushes, sand	m3.	twenty	28.	560.
Bituminous polymer mastic	m2.	22.	3,2	71.
Rental of steel, fittings, knitting wire	T.	0,6	390.	234.
Timber, etc.	set	one	140.	140.
TOTAL	2431.
Walls (box)
Preparatory work, installation and dismantling of scaffolding	m2.	84.	3.5	294.
Wall cutting from logs	m3.	36.	110.	3960.
Heated walls for chopped walls	m2.	70.	12	840.
Terrace device	m2.	62.	sixteen	992.
TOTAL	6086.
Applied materials on the section
Lumber (Round Forest, Edged Board)	m3.	36.	120.	4320.
Other materials	set	one	270.	270.
TOTAL	4590.
Roofing device
Installation of the rafter design	m2.	120.	12	1440.
Installation of trim and skate shields	m2.	120.	7.	480.
Canthem Coating Device	m2.	120.	fourteen	1680.
Enderbutting of eaves, soles, device of frontones	m2.	nineteen	10	190.
TOTAL	3790.
Applied materials on the section
Cancama natural	m2.	120.	fifteen	1800.
Cructible film	m2.	120.	1.9	228.
Sawn timber	m3.	3,2	120.	384.
Fasteners and other materials	set	one	240.	240.
TOTAL	2652.
Warm outline
Insulation of coatings and overlaps insulation	m2.	150.	2.	300.
Filling opening windows and door blocks	m2.	22.	35.	770.
TOTAL	3080.
Applied materials on the section
Insulation isover (Finland)	m2.	150.	2.6	390.
Wooden window blocks (two-chamber glass)	m2.	22.	230.	5060.
Wooden Door Blocks, Fittings	PC.	6.	-	2400.
Foam assembly and other materials	set	one	140.	140.
TOTAL	7990.
Engineering systems
Autonomous Water Supply Device (Well)	set	one	1600.	1600.
Installation of the sewer system (septic)	set	one	3100.	3100.
Plumbing work	set	one	1500.	1500.
Electric installation work	set	one	1800.	1800.
Fire-furnace	set	one	2700.	2700.
TOTAL	9900.
Applied materials on the section
SPEETTING "OSINA" (Russia)	set	one	6700.	6700.
Fireplace Olsberg.	set	one	3200.	3200.
Devi floor heating system (Denmark)	set	one	430.	430.
Water treatment system (USA)	set	one	850.	850.
Sauna (Germany)	set	one	3600.	3600.
Plumbing equipment VILLEROY BOCH, electrical equipment, installation devices	set	one	4200.	4200.
TOTAL	18980.
FINISHING WORK
Facing the surfaces of the GLC, the ceiling stitch "clap"	m2.	38.	12	456.
Painting surface treatment	m2.	290.	nine	2610.
Facing surfaces with ceramic tiles, decorative stone	m2.	57.	fifteen	855.
Device board coatings	m2.	110.	10	1100.
Building work	m2.	150.	twenty	3000.
TOTAL	8021.
Applied materials on the section
Poland Boards (Pine)	m2.	110.	25.	2750.
Ceramic tile	m2.	fifty	29.	1450.
Decorative rock	m2.	7.	34.	238.
Impregnation Tikkurila.	L.	54.	nine	486.
Decorative Elements and Other Materials	set	-	-	5390.
TOTAL	10314.
Total cost of work	32900.
Total cost of materials	46960.
TOTAL	79860.