Anatomy hill

Construction of a small summer house-cottage area of ​​133 m2. The unusual shape of the house resembles a hill and it is almost dissolved in a natural environment.

The warm treated tree and a cold coarse stone are cut and are associated deeply planted window openings, which are pumped up with glazing glass, such an expressive contrast of different textures and colors is characteristic of the entire project. The silhouette and textures of the construction are organically combined with the surrounding landscape.

The "fireplace corner" is viewed through glass walls from the living room, hall and from the stairs. Decorative wooden farm repeats the drawing of window bakes

Thanks to solid glazing, a small lounge area looks quite spacious. It overlaps the balconyrace, which is coming into the space of the house. As a result, won all the premises: the hall did not turn into a well, and the terrace received a niche with a fireplace and a sofa protected from three sides

From the stairs, an exciting architectural act opens: the triangle of the steep slide is crashed into the wall in the wall. Almost physically sensible voltage enhances the apparent fragility of glazed room angles

The kitchen was designed for this furniture headset. In its design used ceramics Evgenia Moskalenko and Katerina Konovalova

"Cutting" in the walls of the bedroom wedge roofing something similar to the crown of a spreading tree. Having grown through a small threshold, we get to the balcony, resembling a captain's bridge or a pier, outgoing far into the sea of ​​greenery, which is so nice to leave the summer in the morning

The window-porthole continues a number of maritime associations started by the balcony and the balcony-captain bridge. Hot water supply is provided by an electric water heater hanged on the wall under the roofing

Floor plan

Plan of the second floor

From the bedroom you can go on a balcony terrace with a fireplace. In the doorway is visible a wall lined with a wild stone. Screeds from paired boards break the monotonicity of the ceiling

The bold decision is a triangular "lantern" right above the bed oriented to the east. It is made so that the sun wake the inhabitants of the house

Blue color on the floor and walls blur the clear boundaries of the room. The illumination of water in the area at the window imitates the natural situation in the natural water branch

This equipment provides the vital activity of the pool. It is located in the service room next to the pool

Pool, shower, changing room and sauna are located in the same room, which is very convenient for use. I won this and interior - it turned out a spacious room. His borders visually expands cladding with light blue tiles

The beginning of work on this original and memorable project was preceded by a fairly common situation: the customer invited the architect Igor Capran when the 912M ribbon frame was already ready. And explained that he wants to build a small and inexpensive summer house-cottage with two bedrooms, living room and kitchen.

The acute and rectangular forms of the house are softened and equilibrated with concentric circles of terraces and flowers. The glass is surrounded by a tree and stone-sign of water or sky in the architectural symbolism of the facades. Working on the house was carried out in a rigidly specified framework, since the architect for saving time and customer's funds decided to preserve the existing foundation. However, he still had to expand in some sites to make a more spacious living room and pool. Traditional building materials were used for the construction of the house (133m2): walls and partitions are made of bricks, overlapping, from hollow plates. The rafter design of the roof is made of a bar with a cross section of 100150mm. The attic in the house is not, therefore the roof is equipped with thermal insulating plates "Light Batts" (thickness 150mm) produced by the Danish company Rockwool. The staircase is made of monolithic concrete, as the house has no floors, but levels, and stair marches are distinguished by non-standard sizes.

From the street in a bright lounge with solid glazing lead ten steps. From the hall you can go to the kitchen at the same level, or, descending into three steps, in the living room. Wall begins a multi-hour staircase located in the center of the house. Rise by two meters, we fall into one of two bedrooms, in the bathroom and on a small balcony. The rise of four more steps ends the second bedroom. At the lowest level where five steps are descended from the hall, a water treatment area is located: swimming pool, shower, sauna and bathroom.

It seems that the column is part of the wall of the house, torn away by the rapid removal of the arrows of the balcony, destroyed it. The snow-white cleanliness of the walls violate the lining of the wild stone, giving the man-made facade a natural natural image of a house resembling a hill or mountain, originated from the desire of the architect as much as possible to the natural environment, dissolve in it. Therefore, it was decided to make a scope roof covered with green-color. At the expense of cool broken slopes (they are descended to the base, and somewhere left at the level of the second floor) achieved similarity with the slopes of the hill. The result is a dynamic volume offering, depending on the point of view, all new expressive perspectives. Interesting and unusual details, balconies, protruding far beyond the construction. They add the plastic building and bind it with the landscape.

One of these balconies, which is at the same time a visor over the entrance to the house, you can get out of the top bedroom. In order for the visor not "pressed" with its volume, its slab was cut at an angle of 45 to impart similarity from the deck of the ship. This balcony performs by as much as 3.7 m. Such a removal allows you to completely close the pad at the entrance. The same full length of the balcony is 6.7m, that is, it is 3M in-room in the space at home, due to which it turns out a cozy, protected from three sides of the weather and outsiders corner. Another finding architecto is a fireplace on this balcony, hidden under the roofs.

Thanks to the system of openings, from the living room located on three steps below the Hall level, the whole house is viewed. Such a decision emphasizes the perspective and gives the interior space depth and dynamics on the second balcony you can get from another bedroom. It appears on a wall of 3.3m, and the two-meter ride of the roof almost completely closes it. Plates of both balconies monolithic. But if the first plate is supported by supports and is made simply from the reinforced concrete, then the second is the console, pinched in the wall and partially resting on the column. Its design is a solid rigid frame from a metal profile.

The roof with steep slopes is upgraded by a real amount of the house, and it does not seem so big and alien on the background of beautiful nature, no matter how the usual two-story building looked like. In addition, significant planes in the area form an unusual interior. Let's say, three roofing rods converge above the living room, forming a complex ceiling configuration. The central wedge with almost six-meter heights rapidly falls on the outer wall with a height of one meter. The fact that the skate of all his weight lies on a small segment of the wall, gives the interior composition known voltage. Constructively, this node was resolved using metal beams on two sides of the triangle. They take the entire load from the roof and transmit the basement. The adjacent rifles rise at an angle of 45. The large windows are located under them, through which the sunlight floods the living room, which visually blurs its actual boundaries. In a sudden case, the roof fragment formed by two slops is crashed into the bedroom space, creating an unusual interior on plastic. In the second bedroom, located on the upper mark, a skillful imitation of a two-tie ceiling was created using a decorative binder, although in fact the roof in this single zone.

The wall, lined with a stone, passes through the whole house, turning upstairs into columns that support the roof of the architect wanted to create a house merging with the surrounding nature. And this merger is emphasized not only by the form, but also finishing. Moreover, the selection of finishing materials determines the image of the house is no less unique than the broken roof. In general, it is possible not to separate finishing works on the external and internal side of the building and the interiors are solved in one style, using plaster, wood and granite materials proposed by nature itself. The background creates walls covered with white facade plaster from Linex (USA). It can be used for both exterior and internal works, since it does not emit harmful substances. Outside the walls were covered with the way of spray, and the texture was used for the interior, simulating the manual whitewash the Ukrainian Mazanoca, which once again emphasized the country's colors. The rich plastic walls looks especially advantageous with a sliding light. Another task is to build surfaces on which you can place the hunting trophies of the host. Abelian walls and columns are best suited for this purpose. White color was chosen in order to create a feeling of coolness and peace on a summer day filled with heat and motley paints.

Under the canopy of the roof is well sitting by the fireplace and look out the window, even if it rains there. The glazing of the square opening is made flush with the outer surface of the wall, so that the picture is formed in the interior, woven from light and air. In winter, since it has a rough surface. The same bricks are faced with the sketches of the architect fireplaces in the living room and on the balcony. The fireplace frame in the living room is welded at a local bracket factory used in building structures. It is installed unusual, the outer wall has cut the windows. This is done in order to sit at the fire could look at the landscape outside the window.

About the windows should be said separately. They have a wide variety of forms: rectangular, square, triangular and one-round. Each in its place, the windows are allowed in the interior daylight and create a special aesthetic atmosphere. Window openings form the completed graphic compositions on the facades, enrich each of them an interesting rhythmic pattern. The sharpness of the facades give snow-white fireplace pipes and extractoring, cutting green skates. They became an important element of the design forming the sculptural image of a hill with barracks. Thanks to their verticals, the silhouette of the house has gained greater ease and memorable "character".

Looking at the leaving the columns, striving in the sky of the roof raids and the space filled with light, you start thinking that this is not a two-story cottage, but a multi-storey mansion. The fireplace is made of acid-resistant bricks and metal beams without which it is not necessary to do without a tree, so it's without a tree. Here we are lining made of pine ceilings. From the interior of the wood moved the outside of the skes of the roof and fragments of the walls. On the walls lined with wild stone, there are also such inserts. They protrude above the granite surface of 20 cm and together with a stone create an almost sculptural composition, emphasizing the plastic advantages of each other. Window openings, "carved in a tree", deeply recessed into the walls, which gives the last three-dimensionality and special expressiveness.

The base and somewhere the walls of the building are lined with plates of a slot granite to once again remind about the proximity of the river and natural environment. Igor Kapran applied a spectacular reception here: the outer wall laid out by a stone is wrapped and passes through the whole house, tying together the outdoor and internal space and focusing on its attention due to interesting plastic and active color. In addition, it shares and, as it were, carrying stair marches, lined with artificial marble. A contrast combination of a roughly treated surface of granite and polished artificial marble looks very advantageous. The stone shall the warmth of the wooden wall and ceilings, emphasizes its naturalness. The surfaces decorated with natural surfaces serve as an excellent background for indoor plants.

Marble lined and all floors of the first floor. Ana in the second floor they are tiled. Such a preference for "cold" materials to cover the floor seems unusual, but explained very simple. In the case, materials with good thermal conductivity were required for decoration. The fact is that there are no heat and energy carriers, except for electricity, nearby, and floors with electric heating are used for heating at home. They are equipped in all rooms, and the control system is derived to a mini-computer, with which you can program the desired mode of operation. For example, while the building is empty, the system supports the minimum temperature, and for 12 days before the hosts arrival, it is activated and heats the living space to a comfortable temperature. In addition, all windows have double double glazing with energy-saving to-glass.

Life support systems

Water supply: centralized

Sewerage: Septic + Filtering Well

Heating: a warm floor system controlled by a computer

Hot water supply: electrical water heater of accumulative type 300 Termex (Lorenzi Vasco, Italy) is located in the bathroom

Ventilation: Natural Supply-Exhaust

Electrification system: from the municipal network 220B

Additional systems

Swimming pool: Flowing electric heater, sand filter

SPK 20 (Zodiac-kern, Germany) Sauna: "Sweet Saown" ("Svit Saun", Kiev)

Oven: Kamenka Harvia 20 Pro (Harvia, Finland)

Fireplace (in the living room): according to the individual project of the architect; Design of brand 160mm and refractory brick, acid-resistant brick finish

Fireplace (on the balcony): according to the individual architect project; Design of refractory brick, an acid-resistant brick finish

The construction of the house from the project to the University lasted a year. The price of the object, as the customer wanted, turned out to be quite acceptable- $ 750 per 1m2. Today the owners ask to expand the house by adding another bedroom. It would seem that the resulting volume is complete. But the architect found an optimal solution that does not violate the achieved harmony. So the interesting story of this house did not end, it turned out to be capable of growth and transformation.

The enlarged calculation of the cost of work and materials on the construction of a two-storey house with a total area of ​​133m2.

Name of works	Units. change	Number of	Price, $	Cost, $
Foundation work
Takes up axes, layout, development and recess	m3.	117.	eighteen	2106.
Manual soil refinement, backfill (filling the sinuses), soil seal	m3.	32.	7.	224.
Sand base device, pre-work and horizontal waterproofing	m2.	120.	eight	960.
Stone tape base	m3.	23.	40.	920.
Caution lateral isolation	m2.	97.	2.8.	272.
TOTAL	4482.
Applied materials on the section
Stone block	m3.	23.	fifty	1150.
Masonry solution, crushed stone, crushes, sand	m3.	36.	62.	2232.
Bituminous polymer mastic, hydrohotelloisol	m2.	217.	2.8.	608.
Rental of steel, fittings, knitting wire	T.	0,7	390.	273.
Lumber, nails and other materials	set	one	200.	200.
TOTAL	4463.
Walls (box)
Preparatory work, installation and dismantling of scaffolding	m2.	180.	3.5	630.
Laying of walls, partitions, rectangular columns	m3.	114.	38.	4332.
Installation of metal structures (balconies)	T.	3.	430.	1290.
Device of reinforced concrete floors over stone walls	m2.	140.	3.5	490.
TOTAL	6742.
Applied materials on the section
Ceramic brick, concrete jumpers	m3.	114.	fifty	5700.
Reinforced concrete slabs	m2.	140.	sixteen	2240.
Rental of steel, fittings	T.	1,2	390.	468.
Masonry solution, sawn timber and other materials	set	one	200.	200.
TOTAL	8608.
Roofing device
Installation of the rafter design	m2.	190.	12	2280.
Device of sheet coat	m2.	190.	eight	1520.
Enderbutting of eaves, soles, device of frontones	m2.	46.	nine	414.
Installation of the drain system	rm. M.	22.	10	220.
TOTAL	4434.
Applied materials on the section
Bitumen Fibrous Sheets Onduline (France)	m2.	190.	eight	1520.
Sawn timber	m3.	6.	120.	720.
Steel rolling, steel coarse	T.	1,8.	390.	702.
Fasteners and other materials	set	one	250.	250.
TOTAL	3192.
Warm outline
Isolation of walls, coatings and overlaps insulation	m2.	470.	2.	940.
Filling opening windows and door blocks	m2.	46.	35.	1610.
TOTAL	2550.
Applied materials on the section
Insulation Rockwool.	m2.	470.	2.6	1222.
Plastic Window Blocks Rehau	m2.	26.	160.	4160.
Wooden door blocks (to order)	PC.	eleven	-	2600.
Foam assembly, fasteners, fittings and other materials	set	one	360.	360.
TOTAL	8342.
Engineering systems
Installation of water supply systems (connection to main pipelines, installation of sanitary devices)	set	one	2100.	2100.
Electric installation work	set	one	2400.	2400.
Fireplace device (living room, balcony)	set	one	4600.	4600.
TOTAL	9100.
Applied materials on the section
Fireplace (included)	set	2.	-	4300.
Electric Water Heater (Germany)	PC.	one	2400.	1900.
Hepating systems of floors	set	one	5200.	5200.
Harvia furnace (Finland)	PC.	one	1800.	1800.
Plumbing and electrical equipment, heating and installation devices of Poland, Germany	set	one	6500.	6500.
TOTAL	19700.
FINISHING WORK
Facing surfaces with ceramic tiles, decorative stone	m2.	240.	sixteen	3840.
High-quality surface plaster (including facade)	m2.	120.	10	1200.
Facing surfaces with wooden clapboard	m2.	70.	12	840.
Staircase finishing, installation of decorative elements, installation of interroom doors	m2.	133.	thirty	3990.
High-quality painting surface	m2.	210.	fourteen	2940.
TOTAL	12810.
Applied materials on the section
Granite, marble, ceramic tile	m2.	240.	36.	8640.
"Eurovand"	m2.	70.	sixteen	1120.
Monolithic internet reinforced concrete staircase, plasterboard, wooden and metal decorative elements	set	one	4010.	4010.
Decorative Plaster (USA), Dry Mixes, Paints and Other Materials	set	one	3430.	3430.
TOTAL	17200.
Total cost of work	40100.
Total cost of materials	61500.
TOTAL	101600.

The editors thanks the Studio "Tropsch" for help in the preparation of the material.