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Liiva House by Muru & Pere
Estonian architects Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere have designed a house for a fishing village near Tallinn, covered in shingles on all surfaces except for one white concrete wall.
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Called Liiva House, the building has a faceted roof creating an angular form with irregularly-spaced windows.
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There is a full-height glass wall located at the rear of the house that creates a conservatory space.
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A room with only three external walls sits at the rear of the house and is open to the garden.
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The project is due for construction later this year.
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The following information is from the architect:
Villa is situated in an old fishermen village near Tallinn in Viimsi peninsula.
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The shape has been derived from sea side stack of boulders.
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More firm and traditional facade is exposed to the street.
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The courtyard is more expressive,wild, opened, communicating.
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The master key of the plan solution is the butterfly tie shaped main axes of the winter garden.
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It is surrounded by the rooms which compose traditional Estonian home- living room, kitchen, bedrooms, guest room, study, sauna.
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The external walls and roof use tarres larch shingles.
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Southern wall is of white concrete.
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The wooden surfaces in the yard maily consists of untreated laurch.
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Project Information
Designed: October 2008
Construction: November 2010
Site area: 1694m²
Net area: 300m²
Materials: white concrete, larch shingle, pine boarding
Architects team: Urmas Muru, Peeter Pere, Janek Maat, Doris orasi
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
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