Nord Domos architects have built a technological house with sea views from the windows.

This order is the dream of any architect. The site was located on the shore of the Baltic Sea, and the customers were ready for bold decisions. Therefore, the Nord Domos bureau got the opportunity to go beyond the standard houses and create something really interesting.

But in the process of work, the architects faced a difficulty: engineering networks passed right through the territory, the security zone of which left only a narrow strip of 31 m long for the placement of the house. Therefore, its location and shape were dictated by restrictions.

The architects made the structure as elongated and slightly broken as possible in order to use the permissible building area by 95%. But customers also benefited from this: each living room received its own panoramic window with a view of the sea.

In addition, the building on driven piles is slightly raised above the ground. Because at the design stage, the bureau found out that a bicycle path was being built along the shore beyond the boundary of the site. In order for the windows to have a view not of cyclists and passers-by, the architects raised the zero mark of the house by one and a half meters.

The structure consists of two buildings. In the first — the main living area for three people, in the second – a guest house with two small bedrooms. These parts are connected by a large terrace, from where you can also admire the landscape.

The architects decorated the entrance groups and terraces with Angara larch. “This is a material of high strength and quality, our supplier himself flies to Siberia every winter and selects only 3% of the harvested forest,” the architects say. The remaining facades, roof and plinth are made of profiled sheet of European Arcelor metal with a durable and stable coating.

Glazing in this project is not easy. There are huge wind loads on the first line, rain can fall horizontally here, so the facade from the sea has an aerodynamic shape, and window structures do not have sinuses and seams. Double-glazed windows made of tempered multifunctional glass with a thickness of 8 mm had to be brought from Moscow and mounted with a crane on a pre-created aluminum frame.

“Engineering systems in such a house could not be typical either. There is air heating with ventilation function. An installation with electric shades and an air duct system are responsible for it. Such a system has saved the house from radiators and moisture, which is very high near the sea,” the Nord Domos bureau shared.

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