House Áfonya
Norbert Juhász

Small house by Hungarian Lake Balaton

Adam Balog as Architects

The tiny house was designed near the biggest lake in Central Europe, Lake Balaton. The context is a transition between a summer house area and a permanently inhabited place. The lake is only 15 minutes walk from the house. The street is quiet and there are not so many trafic on it. The streetscape looks unfinished, because of the many empty plots along the small street. It was important to give a neat streetscape with the new house. The plot is very small and the building utilizes the maximum available building perimeter and emerges a compact volume.

photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász

The builders did not want to have a garage and a multi storey house, so it was possible to design a ground floor house. The street side of the house faces to the South-West and the roof overhang protects the facade from the summer sun and autumn rain and it is like a portch in front of the entrance. In the Hungarian traditional architecture the porth was an obligatory element to protect the South facade of the long houses. The terrace faces to the North-East to have its privacy and to be cool in the summertime.

photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász

The facades are covered with white, medium-grain plaster, in the window reveals and on the ceiling of the porch the plaster is fine-grain. Along the street side of the plot there is a rough, brown-red local stone wall, which shows where we are. These local stone wall connects the house with the past and hopefully this material can be have further future in this region of Hungary.

photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász
photo_credit Norbert Juhász
Norbert Juhász

The house was designed as a summer house, but it should serve the needs of a permanently used family home in the future: it has two bedrooms, a living-dining-kitchen area and a bathroom and it gives altogether 67 m2 space for the users. Basic colours were used in the interiors, which strengthen the modern athmosphere of the house: wall tiles in the kitchen and the floor tiles in the bathrooms and by the entrace are gray-blue, the wooden window frames are red-brown, the ash parquet is light brown-yellow.

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