Residential House in Klaipeda | Architectural Bureau G. Natkevicius & Partners

The house is built in Klaipėda by the Baltic Sea. The architectural idea of the house was inspired by the area itself, which is a former dune, currently overgrown with a forest, which base are pines. Therefore, the aim was to create a facade that is somewhat close to pine bark, so that the walls and roof of the building like scales resemble the bark of a pine.

The shape of the house is a distant hint reminiscent of gabled fishermen's houses, which in the old days were decorated with details of carved horses. Therefore, when replicating the fisherman's house, instead of those horses, a huge steel downspout protrudes into the facade, which is interpreted as a modern detail of nowadays, conveying the mood and allusion of seagull wings.

The exterior of the house, inspired by the ideas of an overturned boat, outstretched seagull wings and pine bark, because of the clay tiles seems to be grown out of the ground, and no intension that simple but at the same time very dynamic shape of the house to be repeated inside the house, in the interior.

The house is not big, but there was a need for rooms: a hunter's, children's rooms, sauna, spa areas, additional kitchen. Therefore, considering the fact that there are enough programs inside the house, it was aimed not to cause a conflict between the external symbolism of the building and the internal decision of the interior. Therefore, the path of light walls, ceilings and minimal decoration was chosen, where the staircase, like a curved sculpture, rising like a screw from the basement to the second floor, became a unifying element in the space.

There are only few distracting details in the space of the house, as the view from the window - coastal pines, grassy former dunes - becomes a part of the interior. The restrained interior, oriented towards the outdoors and the surrounding environment are like photo wallpapers that become a part of the interior.

Lead architects: P. Narauskas, A. Rimšelis, G. Natkevičius
Project managers: L. Ruseckas
Sructural engineers: M. Kasiulevičius, A. Seilius