The house the family lived in for years is no longer a mere building, but a place full of memories. To tear it down and erase history is all too easy.
The old Dutch brick pediment has been preserved and incorporated into the dynamic concept of the new house. It's literally a juxtaposition of one era on another.
When you look at the front and back facade, you wouldn't know it's the same house.
As the width of the plot is only 5,5 meters, the layout of the house is multi-leveled, with stacked spaces. Finished with EQUITONE panels.
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The combination of different materials allowed us to break up the solid house and emphasize the modern geometry of the building: large openings, open terraces, and balcony.
The brick finish on the façade differs not only in color (ivory and gray), but also in texture. The combination of the smooth, velvet and fluted texture makes the facade contrasting and unusual.
The office building in Lisbon, where the headquarters of GS1 Portugal, a company that implements identification systems (including qr codes), is located.
This is a reconstruction of a 1980s building that was built in Portugal one of the first specifically for business purposes (photo below).
The authors of the renovation —architectural bureau PROMONTORIO.
The new building uses the existing concrete structure, but the façade itself is a play of angled concrete slabs and glass panels.
Depending on the angle you look at it you get a new look every time, and it protects the building from overheating.
A bas-relief of the street artist Vhils adds a touch of originality to the building.
How to soften the cold winters and hot summers is to plant a deciduous tree near the windows on the south side of the house.
The deciduous species of tree protects the interior from the sun's rays in summer while completely letting them in in winter. So much for bio-automatics!
And the trees also change their leaves in fall, bloom brilliantly in spring, smell and even produce fruit in summer. And in winter, a graphic pattern of trunk and branches appears in the window. The trees look especially good in large and huge second-story windows.
Clear maple, rowan, linden, plum, oak, willow - ideal when the tree is proportionate to the plot and the house, and the shape of the crown and planting location fits the facade.
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The most striking trend that strikes my eye is the more than doubling of aerated concrete homes. At moment I would call it a victory march of gas concrete in Moscow&and the Moscow region&and and most likely& throughout& Russia.
Let's compare. Here's what we see over the entire history of detailed accounting of our customers. You can count over 10 years, as a percentage:
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And here are the last 70 projects (you can count the last year), in percentages:
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The houses are usually built season early. That is, this is the picture of the last two years of development. Aside from the obvious, you can see that there is no pent concrete at all, thanks to the large number of autoclave production facilities.
I'd like to point out that these are statistics only for the houses we work with. Usually these are capital houses for year-round living and houses that«lend themselves&to»facade design.
In England, there was a "window tax" for 150 years. And also in France, Ireland, and Scotland. The progressive wealth tax at that time was measured by the size of the house. The number of windows (and other openings in France) was used for ease of determining size.
We have had a similar practice in our studio for 12 years - the complexity of a house is determined by the number of openings. For us, the system works very well. Better than if we counted wall space or living space. For example, a façade design for a big garage or a windowless warehouse would cost very little, because there aren't many openings.
With time, the "window tax" was called one of the main causes of unhealthy cities and a "light and health tax," because people built fewer windows to reduce the tax.
There was also a tax on the number of bricks in walls in England. There was a request to increase the size of an individual stone, but the government soon limited the size of bricks in production, and imposed a double tax on larger stones.
There was also a tax on wallpaper. Homeowners dodged it by buying paper without a pattern and applying the image themselves, using a stencil.
It's interesting how my habits change when I get to a new place. Everyone can remember this from their travels. If you take the same family, the same things, the same kids, and consistently stay in different places, you can see how differently residents spend their days.
The places and things we use change our routine. Oddly enough, we adjust to the set of objects around us, furnish the space. The arrangement of the walls affects when we go to bed and wake up, how much we move, eat, read, entertain ourselves, talk to each other, and work.
The reciprocal location of the TV and the nursery? Which corners have good lighting during the day? Where is the house quiet? Is it convenient to carry food to the terrace? Is it hot or cool out there? Who can see me from the balcony? Who am I disturbing in the evening. Can I walk around these walls with interest? The shower, the bathroom, the pool, the size of the refrigerator, the canopy, the oven, the blender, the treadmill, the treadmill, the projector, the stereo, the streaming subscription. Each place has a different set and each time I change with that set.
I'm used to thinking about houses in the format of possibilities and usage scenarios.
Unfortunately, the time to create space is rarely given out -- when building and fixing up a house, when renovating, when choosing a rental property. And it's impossible to plan for everything at those times. You have to adjust and learn from experience.
Modern private architecture in Russia has not become mainstream. Although it has been "modern" for 30 years (or 100, depending on how you count) and has managed to become commonplace, for example, in Scandinavian countries. In our built houses are very conservative — 19th century in the minimum.
It would be interesting to trace why this is so. There are many factors, for example, people don't have anywhere to be in a modern country house - people they know don't live in one. Often bold (expensive and complicated) designs are needed. The conventional house is more understandable.
But I have some thoughts on our native theme — finishing the facade. In order to give weight to the simple form of a modern house, it is proposed to use aged hand-formed bricks from the layered clays of the Austrian place X, a special shape, on order in two years. The market has agreed, it works. That's the way architecture gets pushed into the premium segment. You can't just go ahead and build a modern house without that brick, slate or zinc-titanium roof.
And you really don't have to be afraid of stucco, siding, faux stone or painted metal. Beauty — in beautiful combinations, proportions, accents. The facade does not have to withstand a nuclear strike or be inherited by great-grandchildren. The façade can be repaired and renewed. That's fine.
We've collected a lot of modern homes with simple finishes like this one.
If you dissolve the neurotic knot imposed by sellers of "timeless" materials and insecure architects, it becomes easier to build.
What style of home is timidly gaining momentum to unfold in the future? It's the mega-trend that's exciting the decades, not the seasonal furniture sales, that's interesting.
I believe we are moving toward «big ethnicity» a style that points to the vernacular and, with globalization, to the natural.
Most would agree that ethnic, it's more of a low, rustic style, rustic houses. For thousands of years, architecture has reflected the trappings of power. Even the «modern»styles of the turn of the century extolled the power of technology.
But architecture follows society. Today we teach children to value each other, not as subjects of their king and country, not as an appendix to a shovel or a computer, but as citizens of the earth. It becomes a shame to have a personal palace, even if you are rich, and not ashamed to live moderately, to help the disadvantaged.
Earthlings will repopulate Mars, architects will rethink the past, dig beyond crusades and redivisions of empires to reach common roots.
This is the new fashion — mixing the image of Mediterranean shacks into Western styles. And, of course, the flourishing of eco-architecture, which lacks, however, human flavor.
It is obvious that the most popular building material of our clients — aerated concrete. In second place, by a margin, is porous ceramic block. The rest of the capital materials, rather exotic. I think this popularity remains beyond our analysis, in the middle and northern strip of Russia.
For cold regions so far have not come up with the ideal wall option, so these non-ideal materials people prefer quite reasonably.
We give our customers technical solutions for finishing walls and protect them from mistakes. But there are more readers than customers. So I want to warn readers: these materials are not afraid of precipitation, as many think, the enemy of these materials — moisture inside the house.
The biggest misunderstanding for builders and workers is that in winter, moisture from inside a warm house escapes heavily through the porous walls into the cold, dry environment. Gas and ceramic blocks, it's a sieve for steam.
So people!!! Don't lock up moisture in walls with a finishing or insulation layer! It's dangerous to both the finish and the integrity of the whole house. I write this because I've seen too many houses foolishly mangled by improper finishing.
