The architectural bureau of Alexey Sukhov developed original project corner bathhouse, which will be implemented in a cottage village near Moscow White Beach. Since the general appearance of this settlement with its ponds and natural forest areas is perceived as a corner of wild nature interspersed with civilization, our task was to organically fit the object into the landscape, without forgetting about its practicality, comfort and functionality. More details about the result are below.
Stylish corner bath: room layout
So, our corner bathhouse in the project consists of a small vestibule, a spacious lounge with a kitchen, where there is everything to prepare almost any dish and set the table for a crowded company, a cozy fireplace and TV, as well as an appropriately equipped dressing room, from which you can get into the shower room, and then into the sauna, or you can go straight into a room with a large jacuzzi (it acts as an equivalent replacement for a traditional swimming pool).
In addition, the building has a bathroom and utility room. Since one of the client’s wishes was a corner one, we built a semi-open veranda-gazebo with a solid brick oven, in which you can cook not only barbecue, but also any other dish that requires frying, stewing or simmering. And right from the gazebo there is access to an open sunny terrace, blown by a warm summer breeze from all sides. It is comfortable here to sunbathe on a hot afternoon or enjoy the surrounding landscape with a cup of tea or a glass of wine on a warm summer evening.
Materials and techniques in the construction and finishing of a corner bathhouse with a terrace
To implement the project, we chose strong, durable and energy-efficient SIP panels. The corner bathhouse will be built according to Canadian frame-panel technology– it’s fast, inexpensive, convenient and reliable.
To cover gable roof Our experts settled on chocolate brown flexible bitumen shingles. Against its background, narrow chimneys covered with laconic umbrellas look especially aristocratic and elegant.
The basement of the building is finished in brown facing bricks, and the walls and floor are made of natural thermowood. The walls of the veranda are half open, so fresh air freely penetrates into the room, while a good-quality roof provides everyone who is inside the gazebo with reliable protection from precipitation and sunlight.
The facade glazing of our bathhouse with a terrace is designed according to the type French windows- the entire height of the wall. In fact, these are not windows, but sliding glass doors that allow you to quickly go from the street directly to the rest room and provide the relaxation room with full natural light.
According to the project, the bathhouse will be protected from uninvited guests and idle glances by an elegant fence made of wooden pickets and wild stone pillars on the same base. Approaches to the building must be paved paving slabs, but we decided to leave the surrounding area as close as possible to the natural landscape - with green grass and a small number of single bush plantings. In this appearance, the corner bathhouse designed by our architectural bureau will be able to harmonize with general view cottage village.
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Layout of the corner bath:
Exteriors:
If you have a plot outside the city, the idea of ordering a bathhouse project has probably occurred to you more than once. The Tsar Bath company will be happy to become your guide to the world of bath traditions of our ancestors, who cared about their health.
But we have a special offer for you. It is quite possible that you will be interested in a turnkey corner bathhouse. You will not only feel closer to nature, but you will also save a significant amount thanks to the features of the construction of such a steam room.
Corner bathhouse: what is the attractiveness of this option?
Projects corner baths Turnkey construction involves placing the premises of the building in the shape of the letter “L”. Considering that purchasing a large plot of land near Moscow is quite expensive, this best option for the construction of a steam room in limited space.
You should take a closer look at our turnkey corner bath projects for the following reasons:
- We are ready to make both a standard and an exclusive project for you, taking into account any of your wishes and financial capabilities. You describe the appearance and interior of your bathhouse - our specialists embody it on paper.
- Our log bathhouse will look great even on a standard plot of 6 acres thanks to its unconventional design, which ensures a more compact placement of premises.
- Our company’s projects have a huge advantage – energy efficiency. IN corner baths the steam room, shower room, and relaxation room will be located as close as possible to the stove. This means you get maximum comfort and minimal expenditure on additional heating.
How to properly build a corner bathhouse in the national style
The qualifications of our specialists are quite high, so the construction of corner baths will not cause them any difficulties. Among the undoubted advantages of working with us, we note the following:
- We work only with suppliers of high quality material. The client can choose the option that suits him based on the price. A bathhouse made of logs or profiled timber - any of these buildings will be built in strict accordance with the project and modern construction standards. Therefore, its durability and safety for health is beyond doubt.
- When constructing corner baths, we strictly adhere to the deadlines specified in the contract, regardless of the complexity of the project.
- The construction of such buildings will cost you significantly less due to the ability to use not only long beams or logs, which is explained by the special architecture of the corner bathhouse.
We are ready to guide our clients through the entire cycle of creating an elite bathhouse - from design to construction - with minimal costs and without loss of quality. The final price for the final product of our cooperation will undoubtedly please you.
Among the typical bathhouse designs, one can single out the L-shaped configuration as rational in a practical sense and very convenient for creating cozy atmosphere. There may be objections that square buildings have a minimal surface area, implying unjustifiably large heat losses from baths of this type. It's not like that at all. Firstly, it is in corner baths that the main source of heat loss is the steam room. It has a shape close to the most economical. Secondly, for the purpose fire safety on small area the distance from the house to the bathhouse should be as large as possible - this condition is precisely satisfied by the corner bathhouse projects.
Budget option for a bath
Don't expect standard project wide variety of layouts. For an L-shaped layout, 25-40 m2 of total area is enough to clearly highlight three functional areas
: shower, steam room and relaxation room. The steam room, where the main heat leakage occurs, has a shape close to a square, that is, optimal. It is always located at one of the ends of the bathhouse. At the other end, if there is enough space, there is a veranda or open terrace. That is, the differences between the designs of corner baths, not counting the mirror ones, mainly come down to the question: is there a veranda (terrace) or not. In any case, this area is more than enough for a full-fledged bathhouse.
The main subtleties and difficulties lie in the design of the steam room. Without this, the bathhouse itself loses all meaning. The simplest solution seems to be to install electric heater, may cause conflicting requirements. A small, cramped steam room will not suit every owner, and a large volume dictates the availability of sufficient power or even a three-phase line, and this is not always feasible.
It is best to focus on a project that involves the construction of a full-fledged brick stove in the bathhouse. In this case, the bathhouse takes on a finished look, in which the stove not only performs its main function, but will also be the main decorative element - if desired, you can find bricks of a wide variety of shapes and colors. Such a bathhouse will have a natural luxury that is inaccessible even to expensive, luxury apartments - a live fire. Budget simple projects does not provide for the construction of a full-fledged swimming pool, but the installation of a font is quite possible - this is an excellent addition to the steam room.
Design and landscaping as a consequence of configuration
One look at the L-shape is enough to see its advantages:
Stages of project implementation
Even before buying a currant bush, many owners make inquiries about the varieties and the seller. The construction of a bathhouse all the more requires attention: everything looks quite simple, but it is better not to allow negligence in such matters as the stove and steam room.
The topic of the steam room is very subtle and deep. It is worth reading special articles in this direction. For example, they offer various options filling of the heater, the best of which is, perhaps, jadeite or white quartz.
Advantages of corner baths
Gardeners often complain about the small plot area of six acres. What can you say about a tiny piece of land of three hundred square meters? And there are still plenty of gardening partnerships with such tiny “plots”. And the owner of such a piece wants, except for a small garden house, have a place where you can park a car, plant at least a couple of beds of greenery, put in a greenhouse, arrange a green lawn for children or for a barbecue, and of course, put up a bathhouse.
In such cramped conditions, as an option, you can consider the design of a small bathhouse, placed at an angle, on the border of two neighboring plots.
Such a solution can have several positive aspects at once:
1) Two wings of the bathhouse, forming an angle, will create a piece of space, closed from the prying eyes of neighbors. Then in winter, after the steam room, you can safely plop naked into a snowdrift, and in summer you can dive into a small pool.
2) Thanks to this configuration, part of the land is freed up on which you can put a veranda, terrace or barbecue.
3) If he comes to you a large number of If you like to take a steam bath, you can choose a project with two entrances - to the relaxation room, to the steam room or to the washroom.
4) A corner bathhouse is convenient for arranging a small attic, where a teenage child will happily spend the summer.
Below we present two completed corner bath projects.
First option
The project of such a bathhouse was born completely unexpectedly. Initially, there was no talk of any corner structure. We just bought a new log house to replace the old one. During dismantling it turned out that old building still quite viable. Therefore, they decided to change the logs of the lower crown and correct the foundation, and next to it, build a new log house on a separate foundation. Both buildings were connected by a doorway.
The stove in the old log house was removed - now there is a washing room, the rest remains the same - a locker room + toilet. In the new one, the entire area is intended for a steam room, and only in the cold season, when it becomes cool in the unheated washing room, do we use the steam room as a washing room.
Both log houses stand on a strip foundation poured to a depth of 70 cm cement mortar with reinforcing bars. The solution is poured flush with the soil surface. At the corners, the log houses rest on halves of curbs; the rest of the foundation is red brick, with facing brick on the front side.
The first crown is laid on roofing felt waterproofing. the remaining logs of the new cage are laid on flax batting. Thanks to the fact that the log good quality, the walls are not insulated in any way and retain heat perfectly. The only thing that is carried out periodically (about once a year) is external treatment with the protective agent “Aquatex” - the color “pine”. True, despite this, the wood becomes a little darker every year. The inside of the logs is not hewn, sheathed or treated in any way.
The old log house is lined with pine clapboard inside. In the washing compartment it is coated with a special colorless wax-based compound (I don’t remember the name).
The rear outer, invisible part of the frame is sheathed with an ordinary “inch”. And the front one, visible in the photo, is lined with blockhouse.
The ceilings of both buildings are made of floor lath, 30 mm thick, with a tongue and groove connection. On top, from the roof side, on a ceiling board covered with foil, insulation is laid - penoplex, 50 mm thick.
The roof is pitched. I was afraid that the ridge gable would look too cumbersome in a small area. Later I regretted it - too much attic space It wouldn't hurt, and there would be no snow load.
The floor in the new log house is in the form of a cement screed with reinforcing mesh, sloping from front door to the opposite end wall with a drainage hole in the foundation, through which water is drained through a pipe into a d/well. Cement floor covered with tiles ceramic tiles. On top of it, the main floor boards, 50 mm thick, are laid on the logs.
The floor of the old log house is similar, but has a slightly funnel-shaped screed, with a drainage hole in the center, from where the used water flows through a pipe into a second well.
Ventilation of the bath is carried out due to a small opening window with double glazing and four holes in the foundation made of plastic sewer pipes, with a diameter of 50 mm. If necessary, these holes can be closed with special plugs.
The bathhouse, in my opinion, is practically devoid of shortcomings. The impression is somewhat spoiled only by the unsightly sauna stove, it is welded from a “five hundred” pipe. But, of course, it's not just a matter of appearance, the whole problem is the tank for hot water installed on top of the oven.
Not only does it have a small volume, but being part of a steel “five hundred”, it is susceptible to corrosion. The water often has to be changed due to rust. Since the chimney is located in the center of the tank, it is impossible to place a stainless steel liner there. Coatings made from fire-moisture-resistant paints do not produce the desired result. In addition to the fact that they are toxic, the coating also slides off by the end of the season.
Another disadvantage of this design is the abundance of soot in the pipe, which is formed due to the fact that smoke passes through the tank with cold water, so the chimney has to be cleaned at least once a season. So the stove would have to be more modern.
Although this can also find its advantages: significant metal thickness of 6 mm, good heat transfer and efficiency. It has a spacious heater made of a horizontally welded pipe with a diameter of 200 mm. The flame from the firebox, covering it on both sides, warms up the stones well and goes up, also heating the upper tank of water.
Well, another disadvantage of such a building is the proximity of the toilet to the rest of the rooms. Although, I think we can’t do without it. In order to prevent the smell from being annoying, the toilet must be reliably isolated from other rooms already at the foundation stage.
Otherwise, since its construction in 2009, the bathhouse has established itself only as a source of health and pleasure.
Second project
This bathhouse was built in 2015 according to the same principle - a corner design.
Ordered pine log house non-standard shape 4x2.5 m is also installed on strip foundation, which is buried 0.5 meters into the ground and laid out brickwork another 0.5 meters above the surface. Before pouring, the foundation was reinforced with a double grid of reinforcing bars with a diameter of 12 mm.
As in the first option, the bathhouse is divided into a locker room (or rest room), shower room and steam room. It was already decided to install the toilet here at some distance from the bathhouse. I don’t even know if this is a plus or a minus? The photo shows how the corner bathhouse is compactly located on the site, having three fairly spacious rooms inside.
The foundation is quite high. This made it possible to lay out a row of logs from the inside of the steam room, from the floor to the lower crown of logs. tiles. The floor is a cement screed, on top of which there are logs made of steel pipes, with a diameter of 100 mm (the diameter is large, but these are the used pipes that remained from the dismantling of the water pipeline). The ends of the pipes are embedded in the foundation walls. And boards 40 mm thick are laid on them. From the outside, the foundation is additionally insulated with a layer of 50 mm polystyrene foam and plastered.
The locker room is designed like an extension to a log house. The frame is made of 150x100 timber, which made it possible to lay mineral wool insulation, 150 mm thick, and sheathe outer wall siding, and the internal lining is made of aspen. The wall between the washroom and the sauna is also lined with aspen clapboard on both sides and insulated with mineral wool. Why aspen? It is believed that, despite its relative cheapness, this material is almost as good as linden in its properties.
There is also a storage type hot water tank installed in the locker room. It must be remembered that when installing such a tank, you need to take care of high-quality electricity. wiring By the way, the wiring throughout the bathhouse is made of special heat-resistant wire.
The bathhouse has no windows, and ventilation is provided - in the wash compartment due to the “ventilation fungus”, and in the sauna - due to the wooden curtain visible in the photo. Above the floor there are unclosed ventilation holes, the size of half a brick.
The inside of the ceiling is lined with clapboard sewn onto aluminum foil. Then, from the roof side to waterproofing film A layer of mineral wool, 200 mm thick, was laid. The steam room itself is not sheathed with anything, only in places of contact with the walls near the shelf, aspen slats are sewn onto the logs so as not to get dirty with the resin released.
The roof is pitched, covered with corrugated sheets yellow color, which goes well with the color of the logs.
Drainage is carried out by connected pipes from the shower and sauna, and discharged into cement screed floor into a drainage well.
The main feature of this bathhouse is the stove, with a firebox facing the street.
Vesuvius brand stove, with a special elongated combustion channel.
It would seem that this kind of solution is quite absurd and, to put it mildly, not entirely popular. But in vain, because heating a bathhouse from the street has many advantages:
- Oxygen is not burned in a heated room, therefore there is no carbon monoxide.
- No garbage is brought into the bathhouse along with firewood.
- Due to the firebox, usable space is saved, albeit a little.
- The combustion hole is located higher, in contrast to traditional oven, therefore, when igniting and firing the stove, you do not need to bend over, or even kneel.
Thanks to the well-placed canopy, we got rid of one inconvenience - in the rain you can throw firewood without fear of getting wet.
Well, in conclusion, let’s say that, conveniently located in the corner of the site, such a bathhouse occupies a minimum of land area and easily fits into any landscape.
