Townhouses

About the project:

In the village there are ten two-storeyed townhouses.

The significant distinction from ordinary townhouses is the fact that the houses in Marupe are not connected by personal walls, but by garages.

Practically, these are individually located detached houses. In this way the required distance from neighbours and sufficient privacy of dwellings is reached.

Houses are finished with pastel shade clinker bricks and beech coloured wood, dwelling roofs – with restrained charcoal-grey concrete roofing tiles.

Glass doors from the drawing room and kitchen lead to porches that are opened to the house façade.

There also is a place for a little garden.

The village territory is surrounded by an exterior fence defining the village borders.

Describing the viewer’s first impression of the houses that would be hidden strength, restraint and a very high level of construction performance.

The townhouses are built using only German construction materials.

Town dwelling with rural ecology and life quality, energy efficiency, German architectural and constructional proficiency implemented in Latvia – these are the houses from Hansa-Bau.

Location:

In the houses hidden strength, restraint and a very high level of construction performance is observed.

The townhouse village is located in Marupe, 11-a Maliņu iela.

On the asphalt road it is possible to reach the heart of Riga in 15-20 minutes.

Approximately the same time is needed to drive to Jurmala and RigaInternational Airport.

Implementation of the South Bridge will even more increase the mobility.

Also public transport is located and developing in the district.

All the indispensable to life infrastructure – stores, café, filling stations and service stations – is located here.

Also there are schools and kindergartens.

Nearby the village Marasciemas wood is growing.

Planning:

In the village there are ten two-storeyed townhouses, all of equal design and an acreage of 153 sq. m. Two porches of 22 sq. m. are opened to the facades of the houses.

The village territory is surrounded by a single exterior fence.

Acreage of the land area under the house may vary from 360 to 667 sq. m.

Interior finish:

Let’s start with the fact that all the windows and doors in townhouses fit promptly – they are gapless and frictionless, and are closing softly and tightly.

Windows on the first floor are big, and latticed; they give a lot of light to the domestic premises.

The solid beech stairway leading to the second floor is a real source of pride of any house.

The floor in the houses is covered partly by laminating flooring (rooms), partly by ceramic tiles (kitchen and bathroom).

The bathroom and kitchen have heated floors.

Plumbing equipment of the firm Clivia is installed by German craftsmen with supreme accuracy.

The entrance door is made from plastic profile, and it is 70 mm thick.

But interior doors in every townhouse of the village are made like the interior stairway – from a noble beech wood. Visual wall cladding of the first floor is also made from beech.

At the first sight the interior and interior decoration could look a little ascetic, but this is the harmonious German style – there is just no need for excessiveness.

Interior decoration fully harmonizes with the exterior, restrained and strong look of houses.

Also it is worth mentioning that the windows and entrance doors of all the townhouses in the village provide safe sound insulation at the average noise level of 30-40 decibels.

Constructional materials and technologies:

From footing to roof covered with concrete time-proof tile Braas – everything here is precise and tidily arranged.

Townhouse developer – firm Hansa-bau laid the monolithic foundation of the houses in compliance with the quality standard accepted in Germany.

The foundation in the first instance provides durability of the houses.

The foundation from reinforced concrete is embedded in the ground at 1.2 meter.

Walls of houses are made from expanded clay and are clinker brick-faced.

Massive walls of houses are practically immune to frost and other weather effects.

Central gas boiler of the firm Vaillant with a capacity of 120 litres provides heat for every townhouse.

All rosettes and flush switches are of white colour – by the firm Busch-Jager.

Safe suspended garage gates are also made by the German firm Hormann.

Quality:

The townhouse village in Marupe is designed by an experienced German architect.

Constructional and finishing works were performed by qualified German workers under control of the designer and with the use of certified construction materials made in Germany.

In this way, from the beginning and to the end this is a qualitative German product.

High quality of the materials is evidenced by numerous certificates, and 35-year work experience of the architect in Germany speaks for itself.

Energy efficiency:

The massive walls of the townhouses are able to retain heat.

They are made from extended clay and therefore also absorb excessive moisture that occurs at the kitchen and in the bathroom. Meanwhile, the air humidity in the house remains within normal limits, so the constant microclimate is formed.

Special window and door glass keeps heat as well.

In this way, the smart house from Hansa-Bau saves heat by itself, which is not insignificant in the context of fast growing fuel and electricity prices.

It may be said that accent on heat power economy is a common European standard and is wittingly included by the author in the project.