Wooden cube

With reference to the natural context created by nature and a human, and the individuality of the contracting party, family house in Bireliai garden-plots is designed. After the process of deforesting in Raudondvaris, the array of collective garden-plots was formed in 1977 as a square plan.

Seeking for ideological correlations with the context, the space of forest array negative and a new cube as a positive in the size become important. Primordial form of the cube, when reflected over in the context of place, time and tradition, assumes an individual aspect.

Correlations with a traditional wooden house of the upper Lithuania are looked for. The coloring is kept the same – grey, white with red rims. The place of the fireplace is in the middle of the house. Modern technologies let the arrangement of the flat roof. The exploited roofs and terraces compensate the space of the upholstering of the small site and create attractive panoramic spaces.

The usage of natural materials is also not occasional: deals and metal fittings of the stairs and rails of the fir pattern. The aesthetics of the “building” material does not become mediate anti-decorative, but remains as final. The usage of simple materials is characteristic to the architecture of garden-plots which usually emerges as a free creative improvisation.

The site is 6 are, smooth conformation. There are 2 floors with the basement and an entrance onto the roof. The area of the upholstering – 153m². Total house area – 210 m², constructional size -560m³. The shed for the vehicles has borders with the adjacent site.

Authors:  Mantas and Martynas Maziliauskas, coauthors: Ona Lozuraitytė

Competition for individual houses; rewarded with “The best implementation of the house in Lithuania, 2007”

Client: Aurelija and Edmundas Maziliauskai