The concept house

[meresjeva]

(a letter to the future)

So, Marky… You offered me to describe - even roughly - the house where I would want to live the rest of my life in Finland.

Comments

FIRST SKETCH

[meresjeva]

>>>The sketch is just a first idea from the things you mentioned...two or three sets of log rooms laid out on the north side that would be angled to make a free 'gathering' space for the living area which is made on other side with random big trunks glazed in like a zig zag - glass wall maybe narrow/wide to make spaces you can walk out into (like a projecting bay) or cut off to one side where it might make a little nook or place near a door.

The section is that idea of stacking logs but at an angle to the north wind - like an wall/roof on those 'A' houses...maybe it could be covered with insulation and weather material and then be an angled wall of mosses/creepers covering it...bit like a warm coat to the north. If it was the higher part of house then it could scoop south light down into the smaller rooms at the back of the house. Also it could form a back enclosure from the wind to a roof terrace on the main living room roof. - from the upper bedrooms there could be way out onto the grass living room roof. It might have small area of wood or stone deck and an upper outside fire coming from the pechka below?

Starting to see the pechka with steps built into it - curved and rounded like Gaudi or those old Greek villages one sees

Re: FIRST SKETCH

[meresjeva]

OK, Marky... seems it is the first sketch ever that I do not want to bash too much:) I'm generally positive about the bottom drawing, but feel there's something seriously wrong with the two top plan drawings. I was analyzing this feeling and then I realised that ONE DOES NOT FLOAT LOGS IN THE SEA!

Indeed the floor plan of the house looks like a few logs stuck while being floated from the place of harvest to some other place. But this can only happen on the river! We are talking sea, curvy bays, frozen waves in winter, rocky islands that rise out of the water higher and higher every year... Knurly pines growing between these rocks. Smooth boats with cows standing in them, floating from an island to an island (in 1800-1900, locals had to transport their cows from one small island to another in order to get them to a new pasture with fresh grazing). Lots of nets. Simple wooden mechanisms for community fishing.

I was wondering why all these sharp corners on your top drawings disturbed me so much and then I realised they simply don't belong here! It's like, I don't know, Sydney opera by the sea been built not in the shape of sails but in the shape of a bucket for collecting water. One can't drink sea water.

some practical thoughts:
1) the possible place for solar panels is very smart!
2) I like the round logs and the saddle notch:) Happy you accepted it.
3) Presume the terrace/house dimentions are approximate? I mean, the terrace is far too long and the space below it will be cold and damp and sunless.
4) The ground floor could be higher?

will write more tomorrow/day after, bottom line - think frozen waves, not floating logs!

Re: FIRST SKETCH

[meresjeva]

Oh well worth a sketch...I sort of like anaolgies of nature not copying it or being too much like it. Nature is always best and humans just settle themselves beside it in their own way using techniques that are both practical but beautiful...or more often they don't manage this at all. This tends to be straight line things really.

I thought if there were a few broken fragments it would feel less straight, but maybe you would like one straight side to the house?...it's handly to have a straight wall for all the ordinary things, then the free form glass and angled wall and the rounded pechka have something to show themselves off against, a bit like the bright birds need an ordinary background to show off to the others:) the north part straightforward log cabin with smaller rooms in it, with curved pechka and freeform poles and glass? I'm starting to see the pechka as the perfect thing for Miro curves, and makes lot of sense to be curvy for lots of reasons we might discover.
M