Experience of Development and Implementation of a House Project by an Architect

Abstract

This paper proposes to build individual, economical residential buildings in the suburban and rural areas, in the structure of which new materials are combined with reusable ones. Some practical recommendations on their design and construction are given. It is shown, that the correct choice of space-planning solution and the re-use of building materials in housing construction leads to money saving. The new housing should be not only cheap but also rational in the broad sense of the word. Different professionals should take part in the process of rational construction: architects, designers, economists, consultants in infrastructure and communications. The role of architects is indicated when the consumer chooses the future planning of the house. The architect, together with scientists and engineers, takes into account the possibility of building structures from existing used materials. Experts in the field of building structures evaluate the possibility of building the foundation and supporting structure of a future house from existing used materials obtained after demolition. The experience of other countries shows the possibility of transforming buildings using only the building materials already existing in them without using new ones. Foreign scientists are working on the concept of developing reusable construction materials, products and structures, their certification. As evidence of the effectiveness of the proposed approach, the author gives an estimate of the construction of a house with an attic and a comparison of its total actual cost with the market average in the Voronezh region.