Context

The customer is a banker and antique book collector. A four member family house.

Before After

In the Middle Ages the area, where the building is situated, was a cannon foundry. Customers bought a site where stood the old yellow brick lodge with a basement. Cleaning the plaster of a house revealed that the lodge had been built by ancient bricks which were made in a old Vilnius brick factories.

Description

Because of a historical and physical value of a house were considered to preserve it by wrapping it with outer glass shape. Historical house structure have been carefully restored.

Interior

Library of a collection of ancient books equipped in the basement of historical lodge. On the ground floor- childrens bedrooms and in the attic- masterbedrooms.

At the glass shape zone in the basement we can find the Turkish bath with a rest rooms and a garage for two cars. On the ground floor there are living room, kitchen, dining room and a wardrobe.

Glass form is not an end to itself. From each point on the ground floor area on a 360 degrees offers fantastic views of regional park.

Ground floor space is like a yard of a historical lodge.

Drawings

Extra info

Architects:
G.Natkevičius, R.Adomaitis, R.Babrauskas, T.Kuleša

Completed:
2007

Site area:
1 647 m²

Building area:
327 m²

Volume:
1 563 m³

Sculptor:
A.Šlapikas

Structural engineering:
JSC KONSTRUKTORIŲ CECHAS, J. Vašeikienė

Lightning:
PROMODUS IO and sculptor A. Šlapikas

Landscape architects:
E.Nomeikienė, I.Čepurienė

Author: Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners
Photos by: © R.Urbakavičius