Healthy Ulve Rural House by Lassila Hirvilammi Architects
This private house designed in the old rural district on Seina?joki, Finland. Design in small scale, the main purpose was to plan a relatively large house for this area. Two houses combined together by their corners as one functional unit first based on typological site. The public quarters such as living room, dining room and kitchen are set in a high space on the street side of the house, and the bedrooms and other auxiliary spaces are located in the second part on two floors. The scale of the house varies according to its use.
Arranged in a mixture of two relatively close cultures, its a combination of Norwegian and Finnish methods of building houses and living in with a close connection to surrounding nature. Geotherm used as air heater, which is planned to work together with the directions of the sun. The main materials are blueberry-tinted stained wood with a translucent finish and a zinced tin roof. Special attention was paid to the selected materials and surface treatments for the building in order to build a ‘‘healthy house’’. The main inner material is spruce, sawed towards the centre of the log, what is used in many different forms designed especially for this house.
Architect : Lassila Hirvilammi Architects
