Barnhouse — Wooden House Project

This barnhouse-style home was designed for a couple and is located in the Chekhov district. It consists of several “house” volumes that are positioned between the trees, since the plot has many trees, especially pines.
The house includes a kitchen–living room with a back (service) kitchen, three bedrooms, a winter garden, an entrance hall with a walk-in wardrobe, a home cinema, three bathrooms and a sauna, and an art studio on the second floor with a storage room. Two floors were created only in one part of the house, above the cinema. The rest of the house is single-storey.
At first glance it may look like a timber-frame house, but the walls are actually built from porous ceramic blocks.

Different parts of the house have different rafter systems: in the kitchen–living room there are timber rafters with metal elements and ties; in other parts — timber rafters with timber ties. Everywhere an over-rafter insulation system was used, where the insulation is laid not between the rafters but on top of them. This was done so that the rafter system remains fully visible in the interior.

Along the entire length of the house there is a technical crawl space that accommodates the services. This was especially important for the supply-and-extract ventilation. With open pitched ceilings inside, it would have been impossible to run the ducts in a way that kept them out of sight.

The façade is completely free from additional decorative elements. The house is clad in naturally weathered larch cladding, which was one of the client’s key requests. The house is situated on the first line by the Lopasnya river, so the façade facing the river has large glazing.
The round window belongs to the art studio. The long narrow window is the kitchen window running along the entire worktop.