Valley Villa by arches is a reinterpretation of the traditional Lithuanian house with a contemporary vision. Immersed within the nature, it is made with only ecological materials, covered with specially treated resistant and durable pine wood, in dialogue with the surrounding forest.
Valley villa by the lithuanian studio arches is a contemporary house in harmony with nature. Situated on the territory of the regional park with some specific construction regulations, it had to adapt to the surrounding landscape, ¨hanging¨ over the valley and preserving the existing topography and forest.
 

Description of the project by arches

Just a few hundred meters from active city street and you can find yourself in exclusive surrounding of the park. Calm and harmony of nature. This sensation is enhanced by natural valley, the old Raguva. Sunny slope of the valley. Outskirts. Place of the former wooden farmstead. Regional park territory. Regulated architectural solution. Territory limitations for architectural expression and clients vision to live in contemporary house – these were starting points. How to harmonize all of this?

The object is located in sunny part of the slope next to the outskirts. It is designed in former farmstead place. Existing slope and all valuable trees in the site are preserved. The idea of the building is to ,,hang“ it over the valley and open it to the valley by continuous windows. The ground floor is partly hidden in the slope. Due to black shale finish the ground floor disappears in outskirt shadow. Only the first floor volume, finshed with natural wood, is exibited. Laconic, sculptural form of volumes interprets the silhouette of traditional sloped house. Divided volume, varying forms, human scale proportions, glass and wood harmony creates the impression of lightness. Interior spaces follow forms of the volume. Integral natural wood finish of the facades and roof creates impression of form solidity.

The volume with its materials and coloring flourishes in forest and valley background. By dividing the volume, micro-spaces - courtyards are created. This is the building in nature. Therefore all main interior spaces have entrances into exterior spaces- courtyards. Courtyards are arranged in different levels, creating sensation of wholeness and privacy, enabling to enjoy both morning and evening sun. The hanging volume of the first floor naturally creates the terrace. Windows of the ground floor are partly covered with the vertical wooden lamelles, they serve as protection from overheat and becomes a part of the interior. Suroundings are planted with grass, the path to the enrance is covered with granite tiles in order to minimize the intervention to the nature. The plot is surounded with the open work fence.

Product Description: 

For building facades exclusively natural finishing materials were selected. The main finishing material is pine wood manufactured by ,,Kebony“ technology. Pine was selected as a typical tree for the surrounding. Using unique ,,Kebony“ technology wood becomes particularly resistant, stable, durable and there is no need for any additional maintenance. It is ecological product and this becomes important factor in regional park territory. Within time, pine wood grays and fits the environment even more by fading in background of pine trunks.

Because of the exclusive qualities of ,,Kebony“ technology, manufactured wood allowed to create visually solid volumes. Finish is applied not only for the facades but also for varying geometry of roof planes, visible from the slope. The wood is attached to stainless steel profiles system with self-fixate plastic holders. The accurate wood geometry allowed to combine wooden finish planes and form vertical wooden blinds by creating accurate graphics. The graphics is continued by natural shale finish. Black ,,Rathscheck“ shale is used for finish of the lower parts of the volume. Shale finish is also attached to stainless steel profile system fixing with fixating glues in vertical stripes. The graphical expression is enhanced by metal railing stripes fixed above the shale continuing its vertical division. Different materials, different elements supplement each other fulfilling the facade graphical expression. It is all about the graphical interpretation of park trees trunks.

The other reason for choosing natural wood as the main finishing material of the volume is the aim to interpret Lithuanian traditional wooden house. The main characteristics of Lithuanian traditional houses are laconic volume, double pitched roof, wooden blinds, wooden finishing and granite rocks foundation. Considering that the project site is in regional park territory, the idea was to remind qualities of traditional farmstead house by interpreting it in a contemporary way.

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A.Liola, R.Liola, E.Neniškis, M.Kaučikaite, E.Geštautaite
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Dainius Dubaka
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Location
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Vilnius, Lithuania
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Area
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415 sqm
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2016
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Norbert Tukaj
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KEBONY, RATHSCHECK, RAYNERS, FILIOFOCUS CENTRAL,
INARCHI, LIFESTEEL
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Arches. The first steps of the architectural studio began in 1993. The students or absolvents of Vilnius Gediminas technical university, Rolandas Liola, Arūnas Liola and Tomas Grunskis trooped together for the co- creative activity. In 1995, when Edgaras Neniškis joined the colleagues, the fold team was formed. Later the team changed, however the unifying fold, later the co-owners‘ kernel – R.Liola, A.Liola, E.Neniškis – remained. At the beginning of the co-creative activity they worked with small architectural objects and interiors.

This is the time of Searching and experimentation. At that time they cooperated and implemented the common projects with the sculptor Ignas Šimelis. In 1998 Eugenijus Januškevičius joined the collective. In 2000 the office was moved out and arranged a studio in Vilnius. The JSC „Architektūros estetikos studija“ is established in 2002. The range of projected objects expanded: individual houses, interiors, recreational buildings, public, commercial and urban projects.

From 2002 to 2004 the studio cooperated with Liutauras Nekrošius. The geography of projected objects also expanded – that is Latvia, Estonia, the Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Montenegro. They participate in the architectural competitions successfully. Since 2007 the title „Architektūros estetikos studija“ has been changed to its short version „Arches“. Many young and creative people joined the studio collective. Nowadays it is a dynamic and creative studio of architecture.
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Published on: January 16, 2017
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