Concurso - Ryterna - Modul Suburban HOUSE - RMSH2819

COMPETITION THEME: To design a modular house for family of four based on given description. In addition, family owns ~12ares (~1435 sq. yards) piece of land in Vilnius city suburbs (Lithuania). IMPORTANT: house must be based on modular construction.

Family description: Our project family is a family of 4. They are considered a middle class with skew to the upper class family, family’s income is 3000eur per month (36k EUR per year).

Peter - father 35 years old; Lisa - mother 34 years old; John - son, 7 years old and just started going to school, Alice - daughter aged 2,5 years old.

Family specifics:

Peter works as mid-level manager at one of international companies based in Lithuania, which operates in construction business, he is keen on active outdoors lifestyle (hiking, camping, bike riding, canoeing) as well as he is DIY person, so often he spends time working on DIY projects. He works from 8am until 5pm, after work, he usually stops by the gym or swimming pool for an hour if he has that possibility and there is no need to take care of the children. He would love to live as close to the nature as possible.

Lisa was stay-at-home mom, but now she runs her own business from home, meaning that seldom she invites her clients into her house for business meetings. She is the KEY person in the family; she takes care of everyone in the family and is the deciding person who has the last say in biggest, family evolving decisions (like house buying). She also enjoys active lifestyle, but would not like to live far outside of the city boundaries. Instead, she would pick a house in the city center at any time. If she would have some spare time, she would enjoy brushing up her skills in

handicrafts.

John is a first grader, extravert, hyperactive personality, who constantly tries to find boundaries of what, is possible and what is not. He actually enjoys going to school and is in the top of his class. However, he feels betrayed of his sister as she has much more attention than he does.

Alice is a calm introvert toddler, which is taken care by mother, she is very attached to her mom, and tries to be like she, meaning that she is constantly around mom, even in her business meetings (making business meeting a struggle for Lisa).

Family house location: as family couldn’t afford to buy land or house in the city center, but really wanted so, they bought land in city suburbs - ~20km to city center, their land is located approximately 15min drive from children garden and school. First, then they bought the land it was very close to nature, now land is in rapidly developing area, so nature is quickly shrinking around their land and neighboring houses a popping up quickly around them.

Peter is not so happy about it, but Lisa enjoys new company.

Family transport: 2 cars (hatchback – company car and 2015 middle class SUV – a leased car); one motorcycle (owned).

What are they are willing to spend: they are willing to spend around 72000Eur (bought with bank loan, evaluated at a rate of 300Eur per month for upcoming 20 years).

About the HOUSE: house can be arrange as you wish, number of rooms is unlimited, yet you should aim at the budget for the house. House can be designed as one or two stories high building. It can feature flat or sloping roof. Based on recent EU requirements, house has to be designed, as close to a passive house as possible, meaning that energy used by the house for its heating, cooling has to be as low as possible or at least come from renewable resource from the onsite renewable resource generators (for example – solar or wind energy).