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RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN JURMALA

The wooden residential house in Lielupe was built around the 1930s. The romantic Jūrmala summer house is a typical building of its time with a luxuriously decorated eaves, small lattice windows, a pyramid-shaped roof, crowned by an elegant tower. The house is located in a pine forest in the Jūrmala historical building zone. The building plot has a pronounced relief rise towards the rear part of the plot on the southern side. The historical house is located in the central part of the plot and is partially built into the hill with a level difference in floor height. The wooden house is built on 3 levels – a brick plinth floor, which is partially buried in the hillside; a residential floor, which is located on the same level with the top plane of the hill; an attic floor with a tower. When the new owners from Moscow purchased the property, they had the task of dividing the house’s sleeping quarters into three generations of the family: the basement floor for the grandparents, the attic floor for the three adult children, and the central floor for the parents. The main floor of the house, where all generations meet in the kitchen with the dining table, was supplemented with a new glazed extension on the left side of the house. The main entrance hall of the house is located under the kitchen and is built into the hillside. The carport on the outside is combined with a concrete outdoor staircase that leads from the entrance courtyard to the central level with the kitchen. Above the carport, a terrace with spice garden boxes is formed. In the foreground of the kitchen is a covered gallery under the roof overhang. The new kitchen has glazed sliding doors on both sides – on the entrance side to the gallery under the roof and on the garden side to a partially covered outdoor terrace deck. A wooden terrace is laid along the entire length of the southern facade of the house to the second outdoor staircase behind the western facade of the house. The reconstruction of the house combines the historical wooden architecture of the romantic style of Jurmala summer houses and the new laconic extension on the principle of contrast. The most luxurious detail of the building is a new spiral staircase with a complex configuration. It is placed in the center of the house in the historical part under the tower. The upper part on the attic floor is a device in the tower structure, because there was nothing to support it on: the geometry of the lower part of the staircase does not match the spiral staircase according to the shape of the tower. The historical volume of the wooden house is luxuriously decorated with an expressive roof eaves overhang, which has been carefully restored. The plank cladding with profiled boards, window and door frames, and tower details have also been restored. All windows in the wooden part of the house are made of wooden structures with a fine division of panes. The roof is supplemented with two triangular window structures. The roof is covered with tin sheets. The wooden facade and details are painted with linseed oil paints with natural pigment. The elegant tower was removed to the ground before the house was renovated and then raised back onto the roof after the renovation. The brick plinth floor, which is partially built into the hillside, forms the solid base of the wooden house. The plinth is plastered, its difference from the wooden house is emphasized by the window openings without a division to the floor level.

Project duration: 2019 - 2022
Object address: Līvu iela 2, Jūrmala
Authors: SIA "Zaigas Gailes birojs", Zaiga Gaile, Zane Dzintara
Client: private person
Builder or project implementation team: SIA "MG Būvnieks", Māris Slaņķis
Key subcontractors and partners: SIA "Arenso", Matīss Apsītis
Total area of objects: building area - 406.4m2, land area - 1828m2

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