Space for life

Two-storey country house with an area of ​​301.5 m2 on the outskirts of the suburban village village at half an hour from the noisy city.

A small building organically fits into the landscape. The indoor veranda has a natural transition between the indoor space of the house and the natural environment, which overlooks almost the entire garden.

Massive silhouette, dark shade of bituminous tiles and narrow elongated windows give the house view of medieval housing

The living room managed to create a romantic atmosphere, characteristic of the interiors of ancient locks with their darkened wooden beams of overlaps and erased floor slabs.

The welded chandelier in the shape of the wheel resembles a symbol of the solar circle, which fully corresponds to its purpose. Chandelier design echoes the design of the upper gallery railing

Registration of the interior of the fireplace hall is decided in warm terracotta tones. Small lamps, successfully disguised among the beams and under the roof, provide soft scattered lighting

A thin layer of putty, covering the wall of the Gallery of the second floor, intentionally does not hide the irregularities of brickwork, telling the surfaces of a special texture

A large comfortable table covers around the perimeter. Almost all space of small kitchen

Floor plan

Plan of the second floor

The windows of the bathroom, located on the second floor, goes outside and opens access to sunlight

Hidden from the eye of an extraneous boiler room, "the heart of the house" - is located in a specially equipped basement. "Gentleman's set" of equipment boiler house, boiler, five Roca circulation pumps, provides heating and hot water supply. From their uninterrupted work depends warm and comfort in the house, especially in the cold time

Golden stones of the sauna interior are well coordinated with a chicken range in the design of the pool

In the tensioning ceiling of the pool of dark blue, the mysterious stalactite cave is reflected

"Ancient ruins", reflected in the transparent waters of the stream, became picturesque landscaped scenery

The stream stretched along the site serves as a border between the lawn in front of the house and tennis court

The green hollow crosses two winding paths, taking place in the forest. And on the very edge of the forest, a berry slide

The stream in front of the house, despite its artificial origin, creates the impression of a natural reservoir due to the whimsical form of the shores, the bottoms of the bottom levels and the abundance of a variety of carefully selected plants

The bottom and coast of the "man-made" stream are decorated with a natural and artificial stone

There are houses experiments, houses-history, home traditions, house-scenery. Viktor Shcherbaka House is his planet, his microcosm, a house-sensation.

Big Fireplace, in fact, is rather decoration than a source of heat. Moreover, its heat transfer was deliberately reduced by thermal insulation to be able to unhindered to enjoy the flame game without risk to exceed the comfortable air temperature provided by water heating behind the smoky community of the city. Half an hour along the country highway, and here is the garage gate. Leave the car, open the door and ... In a moment, you can hardly believe that even today, just an hour ago, the megalopolis rushed around, the cars rushed, hurried people. For Viktor Shcherbak and his family, this place was, as they say, the welcome paradise on Earth.

Avenochenia on the outskirts of the suburban country village was just a forest glade, through which the driving road ran. Therefore, the first task was the landscape landscaping. First of all, it was necessary to destroy traces of the road, and then change the relief itself, creating literally at the same place what was never here, but that this is so pleased with the eye: hillocks, hollow, streams and even waterfalls. For this, a bulldozer was required, a bulldozer plus imagination and energy of Viktor Shcherbak himself, who directly led by the works. By the way, such a course of events allowed to solve the problem of the exhaust of the soil, taken out when booking the foundation of the house and the basement device: the hills erected from this soil, and the bunch of construction garbage was subsequently turned into a pretty berry slide. In short, the nature did not take care of, was created by a person.

On the plot two buildings: residential house and garage. The walls of the two-storey house are composed of ceramic bricks and are insulated with a different durability of basalt wool Light Batts (Rockwool, Denmark) with a thickness of 100mm. Insulation is performed on the German technology Tex-Color. It is as follows: basalt wool is attached to the outer side of the wall with mineral glue composition OK 1000 WDVS-SPEZIALKLEBER and is additionally fixed with special facade dowels. Then the same adhesive composition is applied to the insulation and the surface reinforcement of the alkali-preserved mesh is made of fiberglass. At the final stage, the wall is covered with finishing plaster. This method of finishing provides excellent sound and thermal insulation. Practice has shown that in winter with a disconnected heating for 3 days the air temperature in the house is lowered from 23c to only 17c. The roof is equipped with a heater "DOBASILE M" thickness of 120mm, has vaporizolation and coated with a flexible tile Katepal (Finland).

It is especially worth saying about the wooden structural elements. Before getting to the construction site, each detail participating in the creation of the interior (starting with the lining and ending with beams) was pre-processing in the VARS workshop (Russia). The processing was to repeatedly grinding the surfaces, as well as in their coating, first with antipiren, then with a tinting venge and under the end of several layers of varnish. Made on specified sizes, at construction site, these parts were subjected to the minimum fit.

The column, which is one of the main carrier structural elements of the building, has become a kind of symbol of the world axis, around which the living space is organized. Its trunk is the real portrait gallery of the family. The house is already interesting for the very idea of ​​the author of the project and the owner of Viktor Shcherbak to create space for life, based only on its own feeling of volume, form, material textures and following its desires. The building consists of two different volumes of volumes combined by the adjacent wall. The function of the carrier elements of smaller volumes is performed by the walls, while a powerful column takes on a larger load, and more precisely, the steel pipe cooked from three fragments, concreted and covered with construction gypsum. Kolongne convergent beams, which are distributed by the pressure of some walls and overlaps of the second floor. Parts of the house differ in the storey. If the smaller of them has full two floors, then large is a practically a single double space with a partial overlap of the first floor above the dining area (on the resulting mezzanine there is a room of a younger son).

On the first floor of the building there are living room, dining room, kitchen, guestroom, bathroom, swimming pool and sauna. The largest of these premises is the living room, and not only in the area, but also in height: above it, as over the kitchen, there is no intergenerational overlap.

The original lamp in the dining area is suspended to the ceiling beams on massive iron circuits, but back to the column. It became the dominant interior of the first floor and, on the one hand, the space organizes, and on the other, it forms a powerful vertical accent. Its surface is decorated with the relief of the hands of Viktor Shcherbak and his spouse. This is free improvisation on the topic of natural forces and at the same time a family portrait gallery. Thus, the lower part of the relief symbolizes the world ocean - the beginning of all began and at the same time zodiacal element of the head of the family, born under the sign of the fish. There is also his own portrait. On the shoulders of the ocean rests the Earth, this is the second topic and the image of the spouse surrounded by terrestrial fruits. The third tier is assigned to the elements of the air, corresponding to the nature of the eldest son, and the fourth fire, the sun, the youngest son. The relief technology is simple: the contours were carried out on crude gypsum coating. The surface of the column is tinted and artificially aged. For this, he was first attached two close shade. Then there was a thin layer of paint, strongly diluted with water and leaks, which is why the protruding fragments of the relief turned out to be lighter recessed. At the final stage, the surface was covered with varnish.

Parents' room decorates a wooden frieze with a relief image of fish, going around the perimeter of the room under the ceiling. The theme of the water element is picked up in wavy twisted twists for the beds of the bed around the column there are areas of the living room, dining room and kitchen. For the latter, a special corner is highlighted, designated by the protrusion of the wall at home and separated from the living room by the uninforced partition. Niche in the wall allowed us to conveniently place all the necessary equipment. On the perimeter of the kitchen stretches the table, the table top of which has a curly cutout. The absence of sharp corners makes space comfortable and safe. The floors are covered with practical ceramic tiles and is equipped with a watering system of heating.

Dining room design resembles an old tavern. With this impression, it is largely owned by a wooden flooring on the floor, powerful polished beams and a ceiling, decorated with lining. A notable decorative element was the original lamp. It should be noted that the table described above, the bed in the bedroom, many other furniture items and all the lamps are made according to the sketches of Viktor Shcherbak in the VARS workshop.

Moving two low steps, from the dining room you can go down to the fireplace room, or the living room (this room is located 30cm below the remaining level). Special advantage of the mantel is a separate way out of a fairly large indoor terrace. Not limited to from above inter overlating, the living room has an impressive volume, which makes it similar to the fireplace of medieval generic castles. This similarity is enhanced by interior design: impressive sizes of a brick fireplace, narrow elongated windows with fittings, the uneven surface of the brick walls, the abundance of wooden and wrought metal parts, everything corresponds to the selected style.

The dining room looks apart by a lower ceiling level and a wooden floor covering contrast with a ceramic floor tile of the living room and a kitchen. The fireplace room has a centric composition. The middle position occupies an eight-marginal table. Despite the impressive type of massive countertop, which combines porcelain stoneware (central part) and wood (Mirbau), it does not seem to be heavy. Such an effect is achieved through its openwork welded design. The living room is heated with water warm floors and radiators.

On the second floor there are personal quarters of family members: the office, the bedroom of the spouses and the room of both sons. All these premises are heated using water heating radiators. Floors wooden, from larch, having an expressive pattern of fibers. Spracessa grinding boards The texture of wood is specially emphasized. The second floor does not have an attic overlap, the clapped ceiling repeats the roof profile. Maximum height - 5.5m.

The room of the eldest son connecting the bedroom, the office and even the gym, is the only room in the house where a separate shower is arranged. A small niche adapted for it, formed by the protrusion of the walls of the ground floor, this part of the house is simple and laconic design. The decorative capabilities of the building materials themselves, wood, wood. Almost all the furniture was manufactured by IKEA (Sweden), clear geometric forms of items give the interior almost a Spartan view. An exception is the bedroom of parents, where the table and the chest are made of noble moraine oak, and the bed with twisted racks for the edge is a real work of art.

The favorite vacation spot of households and guests have become a pool and sauna. The pool is decorated in the form of a grotto: its walls covers the embossed imitation of the rock rock (the volumes are made of loose foam, planted on the mounting foam and plastered on the grid according to Tex-Color technology). Luminaires built into niches pour soft scattered radiance. The dark blue stretch ceiling creates the impression of the summer night sky or overturned aqueous vagnet, which reflects the real water surface. The floor is lined with ceramic tiles, and around the perimeter bowl of pool-marble imitation of pebbles.

The input part of the house is equipped with a rest room where you can play billiards, poker or spend a fun party. The remaining premises of the lower level are much more prosechant, but the boiler and laundry is functionally needed, as well as a small subsurface.

The boiler room is equipped with the equipment of the Spanish company ROCA- there are a gas boiler, a boiler with a serpentine and five circulation pumps (by the number of thermal contours). The boiler has a cast-iron heat exchanger. The cappity of the boiler should be attributed to the fact that its atmospheric burner allows you to work under reduced gas pressure in the highway. In case of emergency modes of operation (critical temperature of the coolant or the absence of the required traction in the gas duct), it is automatically shutdown. The system is equipped with a panel with a thermohydrometer and a thermostat, as well as a security system, which includes safety, reverse and shut-off valves. Polyurethenian thermal insulation allows you to save water in a boiler hot for several days, thus ensuring maximum energy saving. To work in the "summer" mode is possible installation of a Tan. Circulation pumps for heating system have three levels of rotation frequency and are equipped with an electrical switch level.

The interior used the decorative properties of the building materials themselves: brick masonry of an inadequate wall, the texture of woody fibers of larchs from larch, which to achieve the effect of relief were processed in a special way the building is surrounded by a lovingly equipped landscape, the owners have given no less strength and energy than the house itself. The relief of the site is designed by Victor and Tatyana Shcherbak themselves. They landed the first 500 plants. Then Elena Chuiko (Bioservis-Project Company) took up the case, which issued the berry and alpine slides, "Ancient Ruins" and planted about 1000 plants. From the lawn in front of the house you can go down in a small hollow. It crosses two paths. One of the lines of landscape art (with a polyethylene gasket between the soil and gravel to prevent germination of the grass), "got the name of the" dry stream ", as leads to the forest lake and really resembles a drone of a dry stream. The second path, wider, extended to the forest and to the compost pile.

The insane edge is banging the already mentioned berry slide. Her side of her side arranged two terraces fortified by low concrete borders. This is a place for a garden strawberry, the only alleged view here. Nevertheless, the rest of the space is given to the berry of the forest: strawberries, blueberries, lingonberries, cranberries.

Through the entire area flows the stream, no longer dry, but the most real, although the man-made. He runs along a former brick fence, once demolished neighboring sites. Now the fence itself is disassembled, and on its foundation the picturesque "ruins" are erected - as it were, the foundation of the ancient, destroyed wall time. Mosses and shrubs add compositions of believing and romance. Through the stream of the bridge. On the "ruins" frameing it on both sides, two parksights are installed, illuminating the entire area. The bridge leads to a tennis court equipped on a specially aligned site. The coating was performed in accordance with the technology of open soil courts and is equipped with an electric heating.

The flowing stream is a system of communicating reservoirs located on different gradually decaying levels. This allows water to be constantly in motion, flowing from the top tank to the bottom, from where it comes to the top using the pump on the pipes. The depth of the lower pool is 1M - this is enough to plunge on a hot day. The stream of the stream and the bottom of the pool has a lining from the "skinny" concrete (with a large content of sand), laid directly to the soil. A reinforced concrete is on top of it, and a layer of polyfoam is preceded in the pool bowl. In this way, the bottom allows water to heat up faster in sunny weather and, accordingly, cool slowly. Booted bottom was hydroized using rubberized fabric for pools. In order to protect it from mechanical damage and create a natural bottom imitation, the thin layer of cement grout, which was drowned by pebbles. Provided and the possibility of changing water in the stream. This process is carried out with the help of the same pump, pumping water and guiding it along the pipes, laid underground, in the forest. Clean water is served from the well. Listening to the overflow of the system of excess water through specially arranged in the lower reservoir overflows along the channel is also given to the forest.

In general, all on this site is arranged so that everyone can find for himself to taste and mood - from the game of tennis before swimming in the pool or simply admiring nature. But, according to Viktor Shcherbak, until all plans were made, and there is still where to apply creative forces and imagination.

Enlarged calculation of the cost of work and materials on the construction of a two-storey house with a total area of ​​301,5m2

Name of works	Units. change	Number of	Price, $	Cost, $
Foundation work
Takes up axes, layout, development and recess	m3.	284.	eighteen	5112.
Soil refinement manually, reverse fusion, soil seal	m3.	53.	7.	371.
Device of rubber base, pre-work and horizontal waterproofing	m2.	149.	eight	1192.
Formwork, reinforcement, concreting (ribbon foundation, monolithic w / b plate, pool)	m3.	168.	60.	10080.
Caution lateral isolation	m2.	560.	2.8.	1568.
TOTAL	18323.
Applied materials on the section
Concrete heavy	m3.	168.	62.	13268.
Crushed stone granite, clamzit, sand	m3.	46.	28.	1288.
Hydrosteclozol, bitumen-polymer mastic	m2.	730.	2.8.	2044.
Rental of steel, fittings, knitting wire	T.	2.6	390.	1014.
Formwork Shields, Lumber, Nails, Other Materials	set	one	400.	400.
TOTAL	18014.
Walls (box)
Preparatory work, installation and dismantling of scaffolding	m2.	280.	3.5	980.
Laying of walls, partitions, rectangular pillars	m3.	107.	38.	4066.
Installation of metal structures	T.	four	430.	1720.
Device of reinforced concrete floors over stone walls	m2.	209.	3.5	732.
TOTAL	7498.
Applied materials on the section
Ceramic Brick M100, Concrete Jumpers	m3.	107.	fifty	5350.
Reinforced concrete slabs	m2.	209.	sixteen	3344.
Rental of steel, steel hydrogen, fittings	T.	4.5	390.	1755.
Masonry solution, lumber, electrodes and other materials	set	one	250.	250.
TOTAL	10699.
Roofing device
Installation of the rafter design	m2.	220.	12	2640.
Bitumen Tiles Coating Device	m2.	220.	7.	1540.
Enderbutting of eaves, soles, device of frontones	m2.	67.	nine	603.
Installation of the drain system	rm. M.	39.	10	390.
TOTAL	5173.
Applied materials on the section
Katepal Roofing (Finland)	m2.	220.	eight	1760.
Vaporizolation and underpants	m2.	220.	1.9	418.
Sawn timber	m3.	5,8.	120.	696.
Plywood waterproof	sheet	99.	eleven	1089.
Drainage system, fasteners and other materials	set	one	730.	730.
TOTAL	4693.
Warm outline
Isolation of walls, coatings and overlaps insulation	m2.	470.	2.	940.
Filling opening windows and door blocks	m2.	64.	35.	2240.
TOTAL	3180.
Applied materials on the section
Insulation Rockwool (Denmark)	m2.	470.	2.6	1222.
Plastic window blocks (Rehau profile, Germany)	m2.	46.	160.	7360.
Wooden Door Blocks (Russia), Accessories and other Material	PC.	eighteen	-	3920.
TOTAL	12502.
Engineering systems
Installation of the water supply system (well, filtration system)	set	one	5100	5100
Installation of the sewer system	set	one	3600.	3600.
Electric installation work	set	one	4300.	4300.
Installation of the heating system (gas boiler)	set	one	3200.	3200.
TOTAL	16200.
Applied materials on the section
Autonomous Water Supply System	set	one	5900.	5900.
Roca boiler equipment (Spain)	set	one	8300.	8300.
Wastewater treatment system	set	one	5200.	5200.
Plumbing and electrical equipment, heating and installation devices	set	one	6700.	6700.
TOTAL	26100.
FINISHING WORK
High-quality surface plaster (including facade)	m2.	270.	10	2700.
Facing surfaces with ceramic tiles, decorative stone	m2.	260.	sixteen	4160.
Flooring device (board)	m2.	92.	fourteen	1288.
Facing surfaces with wooden clapboard	m2.	110.	fourteen	1320.
Facing the surfaces of GLCs	m2.	47.	12	564.
Installation of inter-stairs, decorative wooden and metal elements	m2.	300.	47.	14100.
Preliminary preparation and high-quality painting surfaces	m2.	620.	12	7440.
TOTAL	31572.
Applied materials on the section
Ceramic tile (Spain)	m2.	260.	25.	6500.
GLK (complete with mounting elements and fasteners)	m2.	47.	sixteen	752.
Screen board (larch)	m2.	92.	thirty	2760.
Lining (Finland)	m2.	110.	sixteen	1760.
Wooden beams, ladder fence, decorative elements and other materials	set	-	-	16800.
Dry mixes, paints, primers, varnishes and other materials (Germany, Finland)	set	-	-	4700.
TOTAL	33272.
Total cost of work	81950.
Total cost of materials	105280.
TOTAL	187230.