Wooden Buildings – Homes That Blend Seamlessly with the Landscape

When walk through a village where prefabricated apartment buildings have sprung up alongside row houses, along with various other types of dwellings that don’t harmonize with one another, we sometimes feel as if we’re in a fairy tale.
Prefabricated buildings and houses built primarily from synthetic materials simply don’t fit in with nature. In contrast, cottages built of wood or today’s modern WOODEN BUILDINGS—sometimes even partially combined with traditional brick—create harmony with the surrounding landscape, and the sight is pleasing to the eye. There are certainly countless types of wooden buildings; we are referring here to those that also feature wood in their exteriors, visible at first glance.

It is, in fact, a house clothed in nature.

After all, wood is undoubtedly a natural material that belongs in the landscape. Let’s not be afraid of it and let’s build more houses like this in villages and towns, so we can feel good living in them! After all, living in natural materials benefits us most of all.
There is no worse way to achieve your dream home than by (as is so common today) attaching polystyrene to the masonry and then plastering it over. Combined with perfectly airtight plastic windows, this creates an unhealthy, completely non-breathable environment. In the past, it was often said that HOUSES MUST BREATHE. Today, we hear from all sides: SEAL IT UP SO THE HEAT (MONEY) DOESN’T ESCAPE. And so we often create a completely airtight environment where heat doesn’t escape—saving us money—but not a single breath of much-needed air flows in, and mold often begins to form in such an environment. This is a particular issue with airtight plastic windows. The golden age of wooden windows, through which air flowed in the desired amount (even when closed), just as it was healthy for the house and its inhabitants.

All the pros of wooden buildings:

· Environmental reasons (it is an easily renewable natural material)
· We are returning to nature without lowering our standard
of living· Very short construction time (sometimes as little as 4 months)
·         Space savings due
to thinner walls· Aesthetic appeal—a house clad in wood simply looks beautiful·
Wood regulates humidity and provides a feeling of
warmth·         A properly constructed wooden building can last more than 60 years.
So if you’re currently thinking about what the place you’ll call home should look like, try to also be mindful of the landscape in which you’ll set it. May you be proud of what you create there!