Between high reeds

Wooden house (125 m2) on the shores of Latvian lake: Natural beauty, not obscured by architectural research.

Natural stone, wood and household bedspreads create a special "rustic", but not the luffic atmosphere of the fireplace hall

In winter, the landscape looks cold and monophonic, but in the warm season with a terrace opens an extraordinarily picturesque view.

Drain of a wooden watelling is extruded from a fir log, and supported by "hen" - bars with rhizome

Floor plan

Plan of the second floor

The fireplace heating the whole house gives the impression of a decorative addition to mighty wall logs

The terrace leaving the lake logically continues the fireplace hall. They are separated only by the glass door-partition

All furniture in the kitchen is made of pine and in the same style as the situation of other premises. But this style uniform does not make the interior boring

The drawing of the fencing of the inner balcony echoes the window cover pattern, the fireplace is lined with the same stones as the foundation. It would seem obvious ideas, but it is they who create a complete image of the dwelling

Everything is simple and cozy! I want to go down, sit on the sofa, wrap in a warm plaid and stay here for the whole winter

There is no interior decoration in the house, so nude overlap designs are the main decorative element

In the bedroom overlap sewn plywood and painted. Such a solution creates a feeling of the closedness of the room, introduces intimacy in its atmosphere in its atmosphere.

Have you noticed that all the building, which is directly in water, has a special charm? This place imposes an imprint on items, its "inhabiting." Therefore, build on the shore is easy and ... difficult. It is important to observe the balance between kind and art: do not obscure the natural beauty of architectural delights, but also not to make the house so simple, so that it is lost against the background of water spaces.

From afar, this house at the lake seems very small. But in fact, it is quite spacious for a family of two people who do not want to burden himself with an extrany things and rooms to solve this task and tried architects Vita Polkovnikov and Inina Kulikovskaya, building a house right on the shore of the lake in the Latvian town of Sigulda. It must be said that in the immediate vicinity of the lake there is a whole village, but no one decided to build at home so close to the water. First, because to create an architectural object that corresponds to this place, not everyone under the power, and secondly, because construction on the shore requires a serious development of the project's technical side, especially with regard to the foundation and bearing ability of unreliable coastal soil. That is why the foundation of the house was performed in the form of a reinforced concrete plate lying on the base from the sandbreaker mixture with a thickness of 30cm. At the same time, the relief of the construction site was not changed, and where the bias begins towards the water, they were located open the terrace. It does not have a solid foundation, but relies on wooden pile columns. Strekh other sides the foundation was tested by a brushed stone of local origin.

The building itself is completely wooden and nothing is covered outside, neither from the inside. It is characteristic that the logs from which the log house is collected are processed only by hand, and not torn out. Accordingly, they have a rough surface and a variable thickness, since the tree trunk is wider at the base and is noticeably narrowed to the top. When the logs are processed by an industrial method, they are cylinding, reaching the same diameter over the entire length. The forever refuses to be discussed. First, in order to save material and, secondly, to create a special effect of coarseness, pristine the construction. Here an old way of laying a log was used, when the logs are arranged alternately, then a wide end. In this case, they are so tightly driven to each other, which, in principle, no additional insulation is required between them. But still, for greater reliability, the pass or other material with similar properties will never interfere. Vaet's house as a heater is used dry moss.

The logs treated only manually and preserved the entire power accumulated years and beauty, create a special appearance at home, make it, despite the external simplicity of the design, memorable, unusual and outside, and inside the house is processed by special wood oils. Outside it is Tree Oil, and intra-beksan oil (Norway). This method of treatment is somewhat more expensive than traditional, with the use of varnish, however, more durable. In addition, the lacquer can crack over time. And then moisture will fall into the crack, and the tree will begin to darken or even rot. Although the house looks very compact, its square is not so small. Avot placed only a few rooms. But each of them is spacious and filled with light and air. On the first floor there is a sauna with shower and changing room, a bathroom and a fireplace room, combined with a kitchen. From this largest room in the house there is an output to the terrace facing the lake. The terrace itself is spacious enough in order to serve in the summer to serve as a continuation of the fireplace. The canopy is a double room, and the area of ​​the second floor is twice as smaller than the area of ​​the first. Upstairs there is only one room-master bedroom (a small internal balcony overlooking the fireplace can hardly be considered a full-fledged room).

No satisters, including the attic and basement, in the house there is no. To equip the basement did not allow the proximity of the water, and the attic was not needed to the owners. The fact is that the reed roof itself is already provided by the sufficient level of thermal insulation of the upper rooms. Av combining with a layer of mineral wool, it can withstand almost any frosts characteristic of the middle strip.

The house is designed for permanent accommodation, so heating was paid serious attention. Although the construction of the building already makes it quite warm, the overlap of the first and second floor is equipped with an additional layer of heat insulating material (mineral wool). All rooms with high humidity (shower, toilet, kitchen) have floors with electric heated, which is why these surfaces are finished not with wood, but by ceramic tiles. The rest of the room - the hall on the first floor and the bedroom on seconds the cassette fireplace by air convection.

The bed is made of "wild" natural material on the sketches of one of the architects. The peculiarity of this style is wooden elements retain their natural shape and texture, the bark is only removed from them, and covered with protective lacquer heating houses up to 100m2 in this way is now very popular. AVSE Because it is fairly economical and efficient: already 20 minutes after the fireplace of the fireplace, warm air begins to enter the room through the air ducts that are laid in the walls or sex. Thus, you only need 3-5 kg ​​of firewood, to ignite the fireplace and create warmth and comfort in the house. The CPD of the cassette design with a closed firebox reaches 90%, while the efficiency of the device with an open firebox is 20-25%. Violaspo words The heating principle with a cassette fire is reduced to the heating of the room by air, which heats up inside the design, in the "convection volume" between the cassette and the walls of the facing. Single air duct hot air is supplied to different rooms, both by a self-shot and a fan injected. There is no fan in the fireplace in the fireplace, as the rooms are located directly above and next to it. By the way, overlapping the air ducts, you can adjust the air flow into the room.

A few words should be said about the interior, although there are no practically no design sings in it. According to the authors of this project, simple wooden walls look at no worse walls with a sophisticated finish. "The mystery of the charm of such interiors," says Ina Kulikovskaya, "enclosed in the power engineering of a real, unpainted tree, an animating space that allows him to change depending on the lighting, the time of year and simply over time."

All furniture in the house is also made of pine and has the same amber hue as the walls, but another-smooth texture. Household tracks and covers are really made manually, and not to order. But in this house, built on the old traditional technologies of wooden construction, they look natural and organically. Especially against the background of such a fascinating lake in its simplicity with gentle lakes, crumpled reed shores.

Isn't it the main thing in the house on the very shore? ..

Enlarged calculation of the cost of the cost of building a house with a total area of ​​125m2

Name of works	Units. change	Number of	Price, $	Cost, $
Foundation work
Geodesy (applying axes and marks, including control of earthworks)	H.	0.15	3200.	480.
Preliminary planning, development and recess of soil under the foundation (slab)	m3.	28.	eighteen	504.
Soil refinement manually, soil seal	m3.	eleven	7.	77.
Device of the base, pre-work and horizontal waterproofing	m2.	85.	four	340.
Formwork, reinforcement, concreting (slab foundation)	m3.	26.	60.	1560.
Caution lateral isolation	m2.	nine	2.8.	25,2
TOTAL	2990.
Applied materials on the section
Crushed stone granite, sand	m3.	27.	28.	756.
Hydrokhotloizol	m2.	170.	1,2	204.
Concrete heavy M300	m3.	26.	62.	1612.
Rolling steel, fittings, knitting wire	T.	0,6	390.	234.
Bituminous mastic, lumber, rubberoid, nails	set	one	-	300.
TOTAL	3100.
Walls (box)
Preparatory work, installation and dismantling of scaffolding	m2.	90.	3.5	315.
Wall cutting from logs	m3.	46.	110.	5060.
Decoration device, terraces and supporting structures	m2.	160.	fifteen	2400.
TOTAL	7775.
Applied materials on the section
Lumber (Round Forest, Edged Board)	m3.	46.	100	4600.
Other materials	set	one	-	300.
TOTAL	4900.
Roofing device
Installation of the rafter design	m2.	120.	7.	840.
Enderbutting of eaves, soles, device of frontones	m2.	12	eleven	132.
The device of the calane vaporizolation	m2.	120.	1,4.	168.
Canthem Coating Device	m2.	120.	nine	1080.
Installation of the drain system	rm. M.	fourteen	eight	112.
TOTAL	2330.
Applied materials on the section
Cancama natural	m2.	120.	fifteen	1800.
Vaporizolation and wind-hydro-proof film	m2.	120.	1,7	204.
Drains (spruce, handmade)	rm. M.	fourteen	sixteen	224.
Fasteners, components and other materials	set	one	-	200.
TOTAL	2430.
Warm outline
Isolation of slab basement insulation (perimeter)	m2.	eleven	2.	22.
Isolation of coatings and overlap of mineral wool insulation	m2.	200.	2.	400.
Filling opening windows and door blocks	m2.	thirty	25.	750.
TOTAL	1170.
Applied materials on the section
Insulation isover	m2.	200.	2.6	520.
Polystyrene extruded	m3.	0,6	740.	444.00.
Wooden window blocks (double double-glazed windows) and interroom doors	m2.	thirty	140.	4200.
Foam assembly, fastener, fittings and other materials	set	one	-	250.
TOTAL	5420.
Engineering systems
Installation of the water supply system (connection to main pipelines, wiring, installation of sanitary devices)	set			1900.
Installation of the sewer system	set			2200.
Fireplace device, installation of ventilation system	set			3100.
Electric installation work	set			1700.
TOTAL	8900.
Applied materials on the section
Warm floor Ensto-Nokia (Finland)	m2.	12	eighteen	220.
Cassette fireplace (included)	set	one	-	1800.
Plumbing and electrical equipment, heating and installation devices	set	one	-	9000.
Production of Finland, Sweden, Italy, metal-plastic and sewer pipes PVC,
Electrical materials (wire, corrugation, peasants, fasteners)
TOTAL	11020.
FINISHING WORK
Device board floors (including terrace)	m2.	125.	eight	1000.
Installation of the inter-staircase, the device "black" floor, installation of decorative wooden and metal elements, installation of interroom doors, window sills	m2.	80.	thirty	2400.
Treatment of wooden surfaces protective compositions	m2.	500.	four	2000.
Preliminary preparation and high quality coloring of surfaces (bedroom), processing of decorative wooden elements	m2.	fifty	sixteen	800.
Facing a fireplace decorative stone	m2.	6.	twenty	120.
Facing walls and floors with ceramic tiles	m2.	thirty	eighteen	540.
TOTAL	6860.
Applied materials on the section
Flooring Board (Oak)	m2.	60.	eleven	660.
Decorative stone	m2.	6.	twenty	120.
Antiseptic impregnation (Norway)	L.	150.	eighteen	2700.
Other materials	set	one	-	5000.
TOTAL	8480.
Total cost of work	30030.
Cost of materials	35350.
TOTAL	65380.