An example of the interior of a round house. The original project of a semicircular house. Advantages of domed houses
This project interested us in terms of planning, because we want an adobe house. It practically coincides with our thoughts and drawings, with minimal adjustments. We need 1-2 more bedrooms and winter Garden also a bit longer.
Attractive design of a round and spacious thatched block house with an area of 150 sq.m. The highlight of the house is a winter garden, which constantly refreshes the air in the room and allows you to grow flowers and greenery all year round. The basement height of 40 cm is sufficient to protect the thatched walls from moisture in winter and summer, the shape of the roof allows you to place two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor with a spacious 38 m2 hall. The living room on the ground floor is combined with the kitchen in a comfortable studio. A large number of windows provide rooms with natural light throughout the day, saving energy, and thick heat-saving walls, thanks to their round shape, save heat in winter and cold in summer much more efficiently. Thus, in sunny winter periods the house practically does not need heating.
Total area 150 m2,Living area 78 m2
The absence of right angles allows energy to circulate evenly and not to stagnate, the free layout limits us only to the presence of a central column made of solid logs. A round house, having the smallest area of external walls compared to a rectangular one, can significantly reduce the heat loss of the building. The desire for the sun - the source of vital and thermal energy - inspired people to make the most of its power. Designed according to the principles of solar architecture, the house has practically no windows on the north side, which also allows you to accumulate heat during the day. The main highlight of this house is a winter garden attached to the southwest side of the house, which will allow you to have your own green vegetables on the table all year round, and in warm weather it will also be a buffer for heat accumulation and circulation through the premises.
house-shipst. Bolshaya Tulskaya, 2
This 14-storey residential building is popularly referred to as the “ship-house” or “titanic”. Built in 1981 in the brutalist style, this panel building stood out against the background of the old low-rise buildings of the area. With its impressive dimensions (400 m long and over 50 m high), as well as the upper rows of glazed balconies, it looked like a cruise liner. By the way, on the upper floors there are two-story apartments, which were conceived as elite.
The construction was carried out by order of the Ministry of Atomic Industry of the USSR. Hence - another name for this Moscow house - "the house of nuclear scientists", as well as the unique strength concrete walls, not inferior to Soviet nuclear reactors.
New home-ship
st. Kyiv, ow. 3-7.
2008
The shopping and office center "Kitezh", built next to the Kyiv railway station, has a total area of 75 thousand square meters. square meters. The structure stands out for its unusual shape, similar to a ship. The creators of the house call it "Titanic", and its second nickname is the iron house.
beehive house
Krivoarbatsky per., 6
The house-workshop of the architect Konstantin Melnikov is called the "icon of constructivism" and, in terms of significance for Russian culture, is compared with Kizhi and St. Basil's Cathedral. In 1927, the brilliant architect designed the "eight" of cylinders embedded into each other, creating in the center of Moscow not just a residential building for himself and his family, but a space that was not like it in the world. The house, built without load-bearing supports and beam ceilings, survived the explosion of a high-explosive bomb, was restored after the war and entered into all textbooks on architecture.
For simplicity and efficiency, it was called the house-beehive. Most recently, after long litigation and trials, the famous Melnikov house was opened to the public. Guests are introduced to the architectural features of the monument, show branded hexagonal windows, a bedroom with Venetian plaster and a folding "centipede", for which the family of the world-famous architect gathered.
There was a separate post about this house in the community in Moscow.
house on legs
st. Running, 34
This house was built in 1978 according to the design of Andrey Meyerson as an experimental one. main feature buildings - twenty pairs of reinforced concrete "legs" -supports, thanks to which the house received the nicknames "house on legs", "centipede house", "octopus house" and "hut on chicken legs" among the people. These supports taper downward, which creates the effect of "unreliability" of the structure. The house itself seems to be expanding upwards - each of the next of the 13 floors overlaps the lower one. Three smoke-free oval stairwells became the main accents on the facade.
When developing the project, Andrei Meyerson was inspired by the ideas of Le Corbusier: as a result, his “House on Legs” with its proportions and sloping supports resembles the Marseille “Housing Unit”. Initially, the house was conceived as a hotel for the participants of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, and as a result, the apartments in the new building went to the honored workers of the Znamya Truda plant, which produced Il-12, Il-14 and Il-18 aircraft. Hence another of its names - "House of Aviators".
This is not the only "house on legs" in Moscow: similar ones can be seen at the following addresses: Prospekt Mira, 184/2 (opposite the monument "Worker and Collective Farm Woman"), Smolensky Boulevard, 6/8, house-commune on Ordzhonikidze Street, 8/9 .
"Lying skyscraper" on Varshavka
Warsaw highway, 125
To pass this house, you need to travel three stops on public transport. The longest building in Moscow is occupied by the Scientific Research Center for Electronic Computers (NICEVT).
The length of this "lying skyscraper" is almost 736 meters.
elephant house
D. Ostrovtsy, 14th km of Novoryazanskoye Highway
Very close to Moscow, in the village of Ostrovtsy (Ramensky district) has attracted the attention of all travelers for many years. unusual house.
The building was built in the form of an Indian elephant in a bright red blanket, decorated with small diamond-shaped windows and painted with rich colors. Inside there are four floors connected by a spiral staircase. The author and owner of the house Aleksey Sorokin is looking for buyers: “This is a domed huge room where you can realize any design fantasy. No walls, no support beams - nothing limits you.
locomotive house
st. Novaya Basmannaya, 2/1, building 1
Looking at this constructivist building, reminiscent of a steam locomotive, one cannot even believe that its walls remember Napoleon. In the 17th century, the Sovereign Zhitny or Reserve Yard was located here - warehouses where grain and food supplies were stored. According to some information, for the cellars of this palace, ice was delivered from St. Petersburg itself. In the 1750s-1760s, a complex was built here in the form of a square of four long two-story buildings. The Reserve Palace is perhaps the only state-owned building in the capital that survived the fire of 1812.
In the 20th century, the Reserve Palace changed owners more than once and underwent restructuring. In the 1900s, the building housed the Institute for Noble Maidens named after Alexander III: designed by architects N.V. Nikitin and A.F. Meissner, the third floor was built on. After the revolution, the building was occupied by the People's Commissariat of Railways. In 1932-1933 the appearance of the building changed radically. Architect I.A. Fomin gave constructivist features to the Reserve Palace: two more floors were added, facades were leveled, forms were changed window openings, and at the corner of Novaya Basmannaya and Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya streets, a nine-story clock tower rose up, because of which the house was nicknamed the “House with a Chimney” by the people.
egg house
st. Mashkova, 1
Mashkova Street, located near the Chistye Prudy metro station, has long been famous for its tenement houses and Art Nouveau buildings, the peak of which was erected at the beginning of the 20th century. But, despite this, today this street is better known for its modern building, namely the egg house.
The egg house appeared in 2002 and has become not only a tourist attraction, but also a symbol of all Luzhkov's architecture. The egg house project was created by architect Sergei Tkachenko for a maternity hospital in Bethlehem, but the idea was abandoned there. As a result, the egg house was erected on Mashkov Street as an extension to a new multi-storey building. The house has 4 floors and 5 rooms. On the ground floor there is an entrance hall, a hall and a sauna. On the second - a kitchen with a dining room, a servant's room and a bathroom. The third is the living room. On the fourth floor there is a domed room.
donut house
st. Nezhinskaya, 13 / st. Dovzhenko, 6
"Doughnut House" - the first round house in Moscow. It was built in 1972 in the Ochakovo-Matveevskoye district in the west of Moscow on the eve of the 1980 Olympics. The unusual shape of the house was designed by architect Yevgeny Stamo and engineer Alexander Markelov. For the construction, standard panels were used, which, in order to close the ring, were placed at an angle of 6 degrees of permissible error. That is why the buildings turned out to be quite impressive. Finding the right one from 26 entrances is not so easy.
According to the architects' idea, an Olympic village in the form of five ring houses was to appear in Moscow. However, this project proved costly and only two houses were eventually built. Moreover, the twin brother of the first "donut house" appeared only seven years later, in 1979, a year before the Olympics-80 in the west of the capital - in the Ramenki area. At one time, outstanding theater and film actors lived in the house on Nezhinskaya - Honored Artist of the RSFSR Savely Kramarov and Honored Artist of Russia Galina Belyaeva, as well as film director, screenwriter and poet Emil Lotyanu.
Morozov's mansion
st. Vozdvizhenka, 16
Arseny Morozov traveled a lot around the world. Most of all, he was impressed by the architecture of Spain and Portugal: he decided to build a Moorish-style building in Moscow as well. But the merchant's mother did not like this idea: she believed that the whole capital would laugh at her son. Despite persuasion, in 1894 he allocated money for the construction of the house, which still remains one of the most impressive architectural structures of Belokamennaya. The house was designed by Viktor Mazyrin, a close friend of Morozov.
fun house
st. Novocheremushkinskaya, 60
The residential complex "Avangard", known among local residents as the "Merry House", was built in 2005 under the leadership of Sergei Kiselev. The twenty-storey almost round building is painted in bright colors.
Airship
Profsoyuznaya street, 64 building 2
The residential complex Airship is located in the South-Western district of Moscow, a 7-minute walk from Novye Cheryomushki metro station.
Center for Psychological, Medical and Social Support for Children and Adolescents
st. Kashenkin meadow, 7
This institution is often referred to as a school or rehabilitation center for children with autism. The building is unusual in every sense, as it is intended for unusual children. Architect Andrei Chernikhov tried to create a small world that would help autistic children adjust to the real world outside the rehabilitation center.
Sail House
st. Grizodubova, 2
A twenty-three-story, five-entrance monolithic residential building was built in 2007.
This building among the people received many different names - "house-ear", "house-drop", "house-whale", "wave", "mountain". The architects did not expect that the house would turn out to be such an unusual shape. The house began to be built along the arc of the outskirts of the Khodynka field.
Initially, the longest house in Europe was built on the Khodynka field, but already during the construction, certain problems began to arise. The fact is that in the north of the building being erected there was a school site that needed light, and the hulk under construction created a huge shadow. This was the decisive reason for adjusting the project. At first it was supposed to cut the house with a ladder, but later the ladder was replaced by an arc that turned the building either into Van Gogh's ear (by association with the famous self-portrait of the artist), or into a huge colossus, slowly creeping forward.
Humpback house on the Yauza
Popov proezd, 4
Arco di Sole is an eight-section monolithic house of variable height from 13 to 21 floors built in 2009 by Inteko. The plinth of Arco di Sole is clad in granite, while the living floors are clad in porcelain stoneware.
openwork house
Leningradsky prospect, 27
The house was built in 1941 and in fact is a fairly typical building for that time. What makes him stand out total weight"Stalinok" - openwork concrete gratings, which became his "face" and made famous.
Material prepared by: Olga Fursova, Vera Monakhova, Daria Ishkarayeva, commentators of this post
Naturally, the project of a round house is extraordinary, each such building is unique in its own way. An architect working on a circular housing project must take into account a lot of factors, such as:
- the terrain in which the house will be located;
- usable building area;
- climatic and seismic features of the region;
- wishes of the customer regarding the internal arrangement of the round house and much more.
Attention! Such individual projects, are unlikely to be cheap, but the owner of a round house will be able to significantly save on building materials and assembly work.
In addition to the uniqueness, round houses have a lot of advantages:
Advice! You can build a round house from almost any building material. Often for this purpose, straw or edged logs connected with clay, frame or panel structures made specifically for domed projects, metal or wooden supports and frames are used for this purpose.
Building a round house with your own hands
Spherical or cylindrical buildings are quite difficult to design, because here you have to work with curvilinear figures in which it is difficult to calculate the loads. If it is better to entrust the project of a round house to professionals, then you can assemble the structure yourself.
In general, the construction of a round house can be divided into several stages:
Important! Do not forget about the vapor barrier and waterproofing of the round house. If you do not lay special films, it will be damp and uncomfortable inside the house, and its walls will quickly become unusable due to constant humidity.
Photos of finished round houses will not leave anyone indifferent - unusual projects leave an imprint on the soul forever. Everything in such a structure is unusual: from appearance to the situation inside the house. Not everyone will be able to live in non-standard conditions; you need to get used to a round house. But spherical projects will definitely appeal to creative individuals and lovers of cutting-edge technologies.
Modern apartment buildings, Stalinist skyscrapers and high-rise buildings of the 1970s are not just residential buildings, but real city symbols. In the heading "" The Village talks about the most famous and unusual houses of the two capitals and their inhabitants. In the new issue, we learned how life works in a round house on Dovzhenko Street in Moscow.
History reference
In 1972, an unusual house was built on Nezhinskaya Street in Moscow from the most ordinary details. panel series I-515/9M. Architect Yevgeny Stamo and engineer Alexander Markelov decided to use the allowable error of six degrees when installing standard panels and closed a typical nine-story building in a ring with a diameter of 155 meters. The idea turned out to be so paradoxical that according to the plan to Olympic Games In 1980, as many as five huge ring houses were supposed to appear in the south-west of Moscow, but only one more was built - in 1979 on Dovzhenko Street, which differs slightly from the first number of apartments. It turned out that due to the unusual shape, such houses are expensive to build and even more expensive to maintain, and further plans were curtailed. The house on Dovzhenko Street is located near the Mosfilm studio, so famous actors and artists lived here among ordinary citizens - for example, Savely Kramarov, as well as a couple of film director Emil Lotyanu and actress Galina Belyaeva.
Yulia Trifonova, photographer: I have lived in a round house almost all my life, since early childhood. We used to live in another apartment, and then we moved to this, bigger one - now we have three rooms. Our renovation is already 18 years old: then the parents hired a designer who made a new layout. Initially, the layout here was quite normal for panel house: a long corridor and many doors on different sides - not the most comfortable option. The designer made a semicircular wall for us - at that time it was a very cool renovation, the neighbors even came to look. It turned out an interesting effect: you go into a round house - and the first thing you see is a semicircular wall.
Due to the fact that the house is round, the walls here are uneven: they diverge by about 80 centimeters. But this is almost imperceptible until you put the furniture along the walls: you align it with one wall and you see that the furniture is crooked relative to the other. And so it is in every room. There is a feeling, in general, that you live in a round house. I also took a round chair from the dacha - I decided that it must be here.
There are a lot of apartments for rent in our house, and we don’t really communicate with our neighbors. It used to be customary to be friends, but now everyone just says hello. Our entrance is clean, it was repaired a couple of years ago, and before that, stalactites grew right here and it was scary. And then suddenly they put everything in order and even changed the mailboxes and the elevator.
Windows look on both sides of the house. Those that overlook the courtyard alternate with balconies. Therefore, when a neighbor comes out onto the balcony, he sees everything that is happening with us, and this is very uncomfortable. My bed used to be right by the window, so I had to keep an eye on the curtains. And from the windows on the outside you can see the Setun River. Now they put it in order and made some kind of park, but it was solid dirt. We also have a golf club under the windows. Formerly Luzhkov played golf regularly, fireworks were fired every Friday, and the surrounding streets were blocked off. Now they mostly do weddings.
I know that they planned to build five houses like ours - according to the number of Olympic rings - so that they could be seen from space. But something went wrong, and the grand plan was not implemented. Mom says that when the house was first built, it towered over the rest of the buildings in the area and seemed very monumental. Still - as many as nine floors! And now it is only nine floors against the backdrop of elite skyscrapers.
The round house has about a thousand apartments and 26 entrances. There are six arches through which you can get inside the circle. In the yard - everything is as usual: a kindergarten, benches, trees and mostly cars. But there are almost no problems with parking. Sometimes, of course, you have to look for a place, but compared to other areas where everyone parks on top of each other, everything is fine here.
One-room
flat
32 m2
Two-room
flat
45 m2
Three-room
flat
58 m2
It's hard to get by without a car in our area. Despite the fact that it is very close to the center, transport accessibility is poor. There is only one bus that goes down to Dovzhenko Street, which is simply impossible to wait for: it arrives about once every 40 minutes. The rest of the transport runs from Mosfilmovskaya street, and this is about 500 meters from the house. If I need to go somewhere without a car, I go there.
The nearest metro from which you can get here is either Kyiv or Universitet, they are equidistant from home. It takes about 40 minutes to walk to Kievskaya, and this is not a very pleasant path along the road.
True, if you look at the map, then the nearest metro station is Park Pobedy. But the station is separated from our district by a river and a railway, which cannot be crossed in any way. This creates a lot of problems. Couriers, for example, are almost always late for me. The navigator shows them that there is a walking route from Victory Park, and when they approach the railway, they begin to call and admit that they are lost.
There is only one grocery store near the house - and there are rumors that they want to remove it, because a hotel will be built here. Of course, there are some “alcohols” in the house itself, I remember them from childhood: there, local alcoholics always begged for a drink from the saleswomen, and they drove them away with the words “you owe me 200 rubles anyway.” The saleswomen had a special book in which they wrote down all the debtors. In general, I was afraid to go there. There are still such shops around the house, but you can only buy beer and vodka in them.
The film studio "Mosfilm" is located very close, so we constantly shoot movies, and even our house often flashes in films. For example, in the finale of the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" you can see it, and "Stop on Demand" was filmed in the yard. I even took part in this series. Extras were recruited right on the spot, and we, the children, could not refuse this. I remember we were even paid 30 rubles each. I went and spent everything on Snickers, and then I got worried: I ran for three hours, and I squandered the money so quickly.
I constantly hear that our house will be demolished, because the area is elite and an entertainment complex or something else can be built instead of the old building. But these rumors have been circulating for almost 20 years - and nothing, the house is in place.
Ceiling height
264 centimeters
bathroom
separated
kitchen area
6 m2
The price of a two-room apartment
10,000,000 rubles 1
In 2015, artist and photographer Elena Kholkina organized the Sheet project, during which she asked the inhabitants of the round house about their life in the architectural monument, and then hung sheets with their statements in the courtyard. The project participated in the public art competition "Space Expansion" held by the Victoria Foundation.
ELENA KHOLKINA: The Sheet project was conceived for an ordinary Moscow courtyard, but in the process of discussing it with the Victoria Foundation, we decided that we needed to make it more specific. The idea of the project is to somehow unite people, and this should be done within the framework of some small community. While I was looking for such communities, I came across two round houses. It turned out that this is a really interesting space, surrounded by a solid wall with several small arches. Theoretically, there are conditions for the emergence of a neighborhood community.
At first, I intended to make the project in a fake story format. I thought about taking portraits of the inhabitants of the house and printing them on sheets, accompanied by images with some fictitious stories about the person. This was necessary in order to catch the attention of people, to interest them in each other thanks to unrealistic stories. But in the end, together with the curators, we decided that it was better to move to a clean text.
Field work began: I went into the courtyard of the house and talked to people who just came across to me on the street. I took pictures, looked for archival images, got acquainted with the atmosphere of the courtyard and went there at different times of the day to catch different people. I have had several key issues: how is life in this house, do people communicate with neighbors? I wrote down the answers, not really talking about what was happening - just saying that I was researching the communications within these houses.
After I had a certain number of statements, the second stage began. We printed sheets with quotes from conversations with residents. There were special racks for drying clothes in the yard, and I used them. There I hung up one sheet for verification - it is not known, they will take it off - they will not take it off. A few days later she arrived and found that the sheet was still hanging. Then I hung a couple more, and so in two or three weeks I hung everything.
All statements are related to the house itself. People talk about painful things: you can ask one question, and get an answer completely unrelated to this question, but important for a person. Many grandmothers complain that they are lonely, that young relatives drove them here, that no one communicates with anyone. Someone says that the yard is big, everything is cool, but it is full of cars, and if the alarm goes off at night, everyone goes crazy because of the good acoustics. And some say that someone always gets drunk and walks around the apartments, because they can’t find their own.
Someone has wonderful memories of the times when the house was just inhabited, the trees were low and everyone looked at each other through binoculars. Others say that the furniture stands in a herringbone pattern, because it is impossible to put it against the walls due to the roundness. Reviews also depend on the floor: it is dark and cold below, the inhabitants of the first floors complain that it is as if they are sitting in a cave. And upstairs - beauty, the sun is shining, the view is good, you can see who is doing what in the yard.
No one tried to do anything with the sheets, except for one case: a sheet with a negative comment about the house was neatly folded in half so that the inscription was not visible. But then the sheets still disappeared: most likely, they were removed by the janitors.
I asked the inhabitants of the house if they paid attention to the inscriptions, and they answered that they did. Then I posted announcements about a small meeting with residents on the porches - at it I talked about the project and showed a movie about the house: I made cuts from the project documentation and frames from films that were filmed here. Many people do not even know that the house is actually unusual. Well, yes, the architecture is interesting, but few people are interested in what else is connected with it. We also treated everyone to bagels, because the house is called that in everyday life.
Based on the results of the project, I did not feel that there is any special community in the house where people really know and communicate with each other. There are clear categories like mothers who walk with children, or dog lovers. The yard, despite its size, is still a walk-through, so there is a feeling that they don’t gather there, but simply pass by. Older people told me that there was some kind of community when everyone was just moving into the house: apartments were given to doctors, actors and other intellectuals. But now it doesn't work. Many simply rent apartments - prices in a round house do not differ from other panels.
It is difficult to say whether everything was done within the framework of the project, because it is difficult to track whether it worked the way I wanted. The main thing is that people saw the sheets and began to communicate with each other. For example, someone was riding in an elevator and asked a fellow traveler: “Do you know what this is?” They answered him, communication began - and next time these people could already say hello.
Text: Yulia Eltsova, Sergey Babkin, Yuri Bolotov
Photo: Yasya Vogelhardt, Denis Esakov, Elena Kholkina, Natasha Shavkunova
Video: Konstantin Mitrokhov
Is it possible to build a "round" house from monolithic concrete in Russia? What are the advantages of houses without dark corners? How do they look inside? And how to put furniture in a house with "round" walls?
Recently I had a chance to go on a "tour" of one of the domed houses under construction in the suburbs of the LotosDom company. I went there for work, and I’ll say right away that for the Zelenograd Infoportal, for which I was preparing an article about the house, it was advertising material *. However, I personally have no obligation to post this material on my blog and I do so solely because I consider this unusual topic worthy of your attention. I also do not have the goal of convincing you of the superiority of these houses, however, I also do not set myself the task of critically evaluating the arguments of the "manufacturer" of such buildings. Therefore, the narrative will be conducted in the format “for what I bought, for that I sell.” So, with the formalities and prefaces figured out. Go!..
The house we visited is located in the Klin district of the Moscow region, behind Klin and even behind Vysokovsky. The journey by car from Zelenograd to this dull place took an hour and a half. There is a house in one of the cottage villages, standing out noticeably from the surrounding buildings.
Outside, due to the rounding of the walls on the second floor, it looks more compact than inside.
At the moment when we were in it, the readiness of the object was 70-80%, finishing work was being carried out here.
Entering the house and passing a small hallway and the entrance to the bathroom, we find ourselves in a spacious rounded room with an area of about 60 square meters. meters.
The total floor area of the central dome is 128.6 sq. meters. On the second floor there are three living rooms and another bathroom.
To make it clear, I will show the plan of the house. Including two outbuildings on the sides (we will return to them later), the total area of \u200b\u200bthe house is 160 "squares".
And here is a short video tour of the house to make it easier to navigate.
Our guide to the "round" house was the general director of the company "LotosDom" Sergey Prelov. He has been working in construction for several years. He began, of course, with ordinary "rectangular" houses. One day, thinking about how to overcome their shortcomings, Sergey stumbled upon a round shape and realized that it simply removes all the questions that were before him with its geometry. So he became a staunch supporter of domed houses.
By the way, let's deal with the form. There is a so-called Fuller shape - roughly speaking, the top of the ball. If build houses of this shape, they will seem flattened, and the walls will have too much slope. Sergey Prelov's company builds spheres that can be compared in shape with an egg, and not with the "butt" of the egg, but with the so-called bit part. Therefore, their houses are more elongated upwards, and the walls, at least on the first floor, are almost vertical. So there is no problem in getting close to the window or hanging a picture on the wall (we will return to the issue of furniture).
This form was invented by the architect Vitaly Grebnev. In 2006, he built a domed house in Saltykovka near Moscow (Balashikha microdistrict). The house is still standing safely. :)
Here is a video about it.
Sergei Prelov, however, had to fight to reduce the cost of production technology. In general, he is a real fan of his work and wants to conduct mass housing construction, and not build single exclusive houses. As a result, they came up with an option with pneumatic formwork - all the equipment necessary for pouring the dome is placed in a regular Gazelle. In short, the technology can be described as follows: after pouring the foundation, builders inflate a ball on it and “throw” it with concrete; the resulting monolithic concrete dome is sheathed " stone wool”, and then covered (tarcreted) with an additional outer layer of concrete. Further, windows and doors are cut out in the sphere, and work begins with communications and internal space. This is most clearly shown in the video.
The cost of the house is calculated according to the formula "30 thousand rubles per 1 sq. meter without finishing "or" 40 thousand rubles per 1 sq. meter with trim. The living area of the largest dome (diameter 9 meters) is 128.6 square meters. meters, the smallest (4.5 meters in diameter) - 16 square meters. meters. Sergey Prelov assures that they have no hidden costs.
In addition to spheres with a diameter of 4.5 and 9 meters in the arsenal of "LotosDom" there are also domes with a diameter of 6 and 7.5 meters. They can be combined in any combination with each other, so that house designs are limited only by the possibilities and fantasies of customers. On the LotosDom website you can find fantastic projects like this...
But in reality, the house in which we are located (the central “dome” with a diameter of 9 meters and two spheres of 4.5 meters each) is so far the largest of the projects implemented by Sergey Prelov’s company. Here is a computer visualization of such a project (however, in our house the doors and windows are located differently).
As you probably immediately noticed, the first and second floors in the house in which we are located are separated by a ceiling with a round cutout. This “hole” (as well as the transparent dome on the “roof”) can be abandoned, but this will worsen the natural lighting of the first floor, disrupt air circulation, which ensures higher energy efficiency of “round” houses compared to “rectangular” ones, and will simply deprive the house of one of its main chips. One of the potential customers of Sergey Prelov's company, on the contrary, considers as an option the idea of planting a tree on the first floor so that it grows through the hole on the second floor. Here is the avant-garde!
The height of the ceiling on the first floor is three meters, on the second - at least four. From the floor of the first floor to the top of the dome - 7.6 meters.
The main advantage of a “round” house over a “rectangular” one, according to Sergey Prelov, is its greater energy efficiency and, as a result, cheaper operation. The surface of a sphere is 25% smaller than the surface of a cube of the same volume - hence less heat escapes through the walls. Due to the shape of the sphere, warm air is distributed evenly in it, without clogging into the corners on the second floor (that’s why the “hole” between the floors is so important), which means it’s easier to heat such a house. In addition, in the case of the LotusDom buildings, we are dealing with monolithic seamless structures, in which there cannot be any cracks and gaps. And finally, the streamlined shape of the ball reduces the wind load, minimizing losses from cold winds. In general, according to Segey Prelov, a fireplace in such a house can only be installed for beauty.
When we were in the house, three small heat guns, with which the builders dried the walls, and it was really quite warm (at sub-zero temperatures outside the window). We quickly took off our coats.
Electricity for lighting the house is also required less than in the "rectangular" building - due to the presence of a transparent dome, a large number windows and the absence of dark corners.
By the way, there are 13 windows in the standard project of a 9-meter sphere. And you can arrange them almost anywhere. In practice, some customers even refuse part of the windows. For example, in this house, there are two fewer of them.
Well, let's get back to the interiors of the house. This is one of the rooms on the second floor.
And this one is different. As you already understood, the rooms are separated by partitions, which in some places form the same vertical flat surfaces suitable for installing cabinets next to them.
For less tall furniture, other walls will do. Using the example of a stack of laminate, Sergey Prelov showed us that by placing a rectangular bed against a “round” wall in such a house, you don’t really lose any space at all.
However, it is impossible, of course, not to admit that the arrangement of furniture and the design of the premises still have to be approached responsibly. A hole in the floor, by the way, of course, will be fenced with a railing.
Now let's look at the extensions. One of them will have a guest bedroom. Area - 16 sq. meters. On the basis of such spheres, LotosDom makes, in particular, grill gazebos, in which a barbecue with an open fire is located in the center, and people are around it. Such a gazebo can also be "mounted" directly into the house.
And in another extension, the owners of this house decided to arrange a sauna with a dressing room and a shower room.
Actually a wig. They say that thanks to the presence of a vault, the efficiency of the heating is “simply crazy”.
In general, Sergei Prelov has a project for a bath complex, which should consist of a large central sphere where the pool would be located, and several smaller outbuildings, where there would be different types saunas and steam rooms. In addition, LotosDom has developed a round restaurant project for potential investors. Sergey's idea is this: many companies spend a lot of effort to stand out from the competition and attract consumers, and if such a building is built, the architecture itself will help them with this. The thesis, in my opinion, sounds quite sensible. I myself, for example, other things being equal, would gladly stay in a "round" hotel.
To what extent such houses are promising in the housing market, I do not presume to judge. Like it or not, the decision to build such a house requires a certain courage and willingness to take on some problems (well, you can call them features) with the layout. Nevertheless, of course, I wish Sergey Prelov, as a person who is sincerely passionate about his project and confident in its excellence, every success.
In conclusion, I will tell you two funny stories about this object. They say that until windows were cut in the concrete dome, the neighbors in the village made a real pilgrimage to the construction site to find out what it was. The superintendent even joked that it was necessary to put up a sign with the inscription: “This is a residential building, it will have windows, it is two-story, with an area of 128 sq. meters."
And the second story is about an employee of the company, Sergei Prelov, whose phone died on the way to the facility. He did not know the exact route, he could not use the navigator or call his colleagues. I stopped in the village and, for lack of other options, got out of the car and asked the first person I met: “Do you happen to know where they are building a round house here?” And to the goal, by the way, there were still about five kilometers and two turns. But the builder immediately received an exhaustive answer with the exact route. :)
In general, the house has already become a local landmark. Whether it will still be after the end of construction, when, according to the idea of the customer, it should take the form of a bouquet of three lotus flowers blooming in the middle of a stone lake. I hope that closer to the summer we will be called to look at it in its finished form.
* The author of the photo in this post is my colleague from the Zelenograd Infoportal Vasily Povolnov. By agreement between the customer of the advertising material and the performer, the photos are “watermarked” in the form of the logo of the developer company (apparently, for those reasons that competitors would not use them for their own purposes). Accordingly, I have no right to use these pictures without logos for personal purposes.