You also like cute European houses withbeams? But is it possible to build such buildings on our spaces, and the windows would be more like ... Architect Natalia Guseva will tell about all the pros and cons of half-timbered houses on the living example of their own project Natalia Guseva, architect
Born in Moscow (a Muscovite in the fifth generation),graduated from the secondary school and the children's art school of the Krasnopresnensky district in 1984, in 1986 she graduated from the art school, in 1994 - from the Moscow Architectural Institute, Faculty of Housing. In 1996, she created her own design studio "Kvarta-eco". Now he runs his own design bureau Guseva-Style. guseva-style.com 
Fachwerk literally translates from German aspanel building. Actually, it is. The technology of half-timbered construction is German and represents, literally, the "construction" of houses from panels, which in turn consist of racks (wooden or metal) and building filler. The filler can be either clay, cement or brick, and glass. 
Distinguishing half-timbered houses of the past is quite easy - their facade consists of square and rectangular sections with inclined struts. 
Today fachwerk looks different. Sections are increasingly filled with solid glazing, and clay, which gives a characteristic shade, has long been replaced by modern building materials. 
My deep immersion in this topic happeneda few years ago, when I received an order for quickly erect, cheap, eco-friendly and at the same time very beautiful cottages for a village in a relic forest. Figuratively speaking, I was given four notes and offered to play a symphony. 
I went over the sea of options, I stopped, like meit seems, on an ideal solution to the problem. The area where the construction was planned was unusually picturesque, but hilly. Time for designing each house separately was not. All I could do was to calculate the right location for each cottage, design a basement for which the future house should be built, and, of course, make the settlement as attractive to a potential buyer as possible. 
First of all, I found a company that was engaged inthe delivery of half-timbered panels straight from Germany, and engaged in "beauty." What can be more beautiful and, without exaggeration, more magical for a city dweller than life in a forest? But what is the point of settling far from the city, if this very forest is constantly hiding behind the windows? What to do? 
Here half-timbered and justified itself entirely. For each house I made one, and sometimes several walls with solid glazing. So the forest entered every house and became part of the interior. At the same time neighbors' homes were left behind dead walls. 
Pros of half-timbered construction mass, here are the most significant of them:
Minus at half-timbered building only one. In the case of using a continuous glazing, which, of course, gives a record amount of natural light, expands the space and "admits" the landscape into the interior, consumes quite a significant amount of energy for heating. And the more glass panels, the more energy is required to maintain heat.
However, this minus loses all relevance when you look at a modern half-timbered house. A dream house, not otherwise.
