Maidla Nature Resort grows with Villa POKU

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The Maidla Nature Resort is a hotel complex, immersed in the forest, situated about fifty kilometres south of Tallinn in Estonia. A place with th century manor buildings, to which new buildings have been added in recent years, such as the small Nature Villa KASEKE designed by architect Mari Hunt from the b architecture studio Villa KÄBI and now Villa POKU, designed by the KTA Architects Estonian studio founded by Ott Kadarik and Mihkel Tüür. The architects caught the attention of the Maidla team with their reinterpretations of traditional Estonian timber constructions. The project was commissioned to the studio last winter and the construction phase was very quick as Villa POKU is already available to welcome guests.

For their proposal, the KTA architects were inspired by Maidla's nature and by the challenge of designing the project in such a way as to impact as little as possible on the delicate natural landscape. All this, in search Phone Number List of an answer to the question that the architects asked themselves together with the clients: what does a person need in a space, what form should a space assume for a person so that the user's needs are satisfied, in a comfortable way and with a touch of spatial luxury? From these initial reflections a wooden structure with an organic shape was thus born, similar to a cocoon, which, however, turns out to be a real experimental laboratory of the latest technologies in the sector.



As the architects explain: "The concept started with a desire to erect the building on the edge of marshland as quickly and smoothly as possible – using all the technology advances available by the very advanced Estonian timber industry: design just a few factory-produced elements to create modules of individual rooms, from which a small building could be quickly set up on the rather delicate natural landscape." To tackle the complexity of the arched geometry characterising Villa POKU, KTA collaborated with skilled local carpentry experts. The various elements of Villa POKU were thus assembled on a cross-laminated wooden plate (CLT) on micropiles. The space between the plywood ribs consists of insulating foam modules with a plastered surface, while the reed roof stands in the air above the cocoons cluster that makes up the cottage.