Special Architectural Features
of Wooden Houses
More and more people are interested in building a wooden house and are searching the Internet with phrases such as ‘wooden log house’, wooden ready-made house’, ‘turnkey house’ and ‘wooden house sales’ and they are looking for answers to important questions. The majority of such questions can doubtlessly be addressed to architects who design wooden houses. Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions from Rovaniemi architects.
Building a country house starts with a question: which project should be chosen, a model or an individual design?
The TM Rovaniemi architect answers some questions:1. One of the advantages of a TM Rovaniemi model project is that customers save time and money when creating a new project. All they need to do is to choose the house model they like.
2. The floor planning of the house is thoroughly thought through. The model houses are constructed over and over again so their quality is assured. The project construction is a similarly well-worn path so all the subtleties of building are well known. In addition, this kind of project is economical and practical, and only the best ideas in planning and material selection are selected. We have a whole catalogue of ready-made wooden houses.
3. The disadvantage of model projects is that they are standard, and the houses have been designed according to the needs of standard clients and set certain limitations. Our architects are able to alter a model project according to a client’s wishes, such as moving a window or an internal wall to a different place.
4. If alterations are minor, from the architect’s point of view, and do not affect the construction as a whole (the changes do not undermine the main construction of the house), then the project is still considered to be a model. TM Rovaniemi architects will undertake such minor changes free of charge.
5. In the case where a customer’s requirements differ substantially from a standard model then the project needs an individual design. This would be in such cases in which a house needs to blend into a particular landscape, or a new house needs to be built on an existing foundation.
6. Apart from individual projects for private clients, TM Rovaniemi architects design individual projects for corporate clients such as public holiday resorts and alpine ski resorts amongst other things.
7. Houses made out of rare material, such as dry ‘dead standing’ Kelo and Gold pine, are always the result of individual work.
Individual projects of TM Rovaniemi wooden houses are created with the active participation of the client. The client forms their own ideas about comfort, and then the architect puts them together into an actual project. The house will thus be ideally suited to the client, their family, their particular activities and, more importantly, to a particular plot of land.
One of the most important features in designing and building an individual house project is that, at the end of the process, the client’s knowledge and experience in building their own house increase dramatically – it is almost true to say that they become somewhat of an expert.
