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"BRO ("Bridge") has had an involvement in Russia and Eastern Europe for more than 10 years, and has completed several building projects, educational programs and a number of workshops. BRO has been involved in projects at Svetlana Village in Russia, Rozkalni Village in Latvia and Scholnyj Dom Ryzhkovo. In this projects BRO has had a central role as archtectual designer, building instructor and to a large extend also providing financial support for the projects.
Scholnyj Dom Ryzhkovo (SDR)
Schoolhouse Ryzhkovo was established as a non profit organization in 2002 with the aim to develop Ryzhkovo to become an educational center in the St. Petersburg region. With the cooperation with BRO, SDR should also become an environmental center. The cooperation between BRO and SDR is designed as a model in which the relief work, training, dissemination of environmental knowledge and cultural exchange are combined;
- Help to Self-help
- A curriculum (build-travel experience)
- A support work for the mentally retarded in Russia
- An environmental cooperation with Russia
- To promote sustainable building methods - knowledge transfer / exchange.
- Cultural exchange
In cooperation with BRO, the following building projects has been buildt;
- a living house for the teachers at Ryzhkovo
- a guesthouse for pupils and students at workshops etc.
- a banja
- a workshop and garage
- a new seminar-house was planned to be built 2010.
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Domestic house Ryzhkovo
Teachers dwelling in connection with the school. This project Plays a part in the development of a school camp for agriculture and craftsmanship, including youth locally, in St.Petersburg, and Also from Norway and Western Europe. The project has Been completed by The Norwegian Earth and Straw Association and Bridge Builder Academy. Bad luck has temporarily hit the project Wed two Occasions, First in 2001 Whenever the main building Burned down, and again When the building was Struck by lightning Suffering four substantial damage. Due Which two collections were followed up by voluntary building trips in Autumn 2004, the house was saved.
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Guest house Ryzhkovo
The starting point here was a structure that was set up some years earlier and who had been standing like that. We developed a plan for how this could be the first guest house Ryskovo, and started with the construction work in May 2006.
Konsktruksjonen had almost undermined foundations and again, and new foundations were bricked up. The walls were built with straw bales and plastered with clay. The floor was insulated with cutter shavings. In the autumn of 2007, it built a masseovn with cooking facilities.
In the guest house bed and breakfast accommodation will be 10-12. The building was completed in spring 2008.
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| Banja Ryzhkovo
No Russians can live without a Banja - a sauna and this was high on the wish list of Boris. We saw the possibility that this could be combined with a much needed shower and washing facilities and thus the project was started.
Banjaen is approximately 25 m2 and is divided into 3 rooms, rest rooms (and dressing), shower room and the steam room. The rooms are organized around a large brick oven that produces both heat and steam. A traditional Russian Banja built in timber. We took this as a starting point but set up a structure and let the timber be a drop works between. So we put on a thick layer of clay plaster on both sides - apart from inside the steam room with wooden cladding.
A Waldorf school student has the choice to be the main task of planning and building banjaen.
In the autumn tour 2007, Banja-oven bricked up as a collaboration between Russian and Norwegian stove fitters. |
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Workshop house Ryzhkovo
The building is located at the rear of the property and helps to close a courtyard between the buildings that have been listed in recent years. The building is placed on point and the foundation is a solid wood construction. The building measures 6.0 x 14.5 meters and can accommodate a double garage with new driveway and parking, an isolated workshop in the middle and a covered roof as a workspace / uteklasserom with opening the courtyard. The workshop was built as releasing work of timber and clay plaster exterior and interior. |
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Planned seminar house Ryzhkovo
The old schoolhouse burned down in 2001. Since we have built and built on Ryzhkovo, but a school project must have a school house - or at least a seminar. Teaching as BRO and Ryzhkovo want to offer is not primarily classroom training. It is hands on - practical - being out-work and thereby learn. Yet, it will be able to gather, could have seminars, give lectures, have room for social activities as a necessity of the offer
.On the old foundation, we will build a smaller "Building Seminar." It will hold a meeting rooms / small classrooms, a kitchen (and also built in a period can serve as a common kitchen / dining room.) Which possibly could also be a group,
an entrance with wardrobe - and a guest room with a sleeping loft. In addition, an attic room.
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Domestic house Svetlana
This house is the first erected house of the pre-designed cluster formation, the building being financed from Norwegian collections and voluntary work / building trips. The house is a straw Bale build, while Both the inside and outside walls are plastered with clay plaster. Wood Chip was exceptionally two insulate Ceilings and floors. Two toilets were installed The biological and in May 2005 a Finnish mass above was built |
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Garden house Svetlana
This is the first building project completed with ecological building methods Such as earth and straw Bale techniques. The "Garden House contains an earthen cellar built with" Rammed Earth technique, a bakery / herb workshop in Straw Bale construction, and a greenhouse.
The building was erected in 1997/98. A wood-fired baker above was built in 2005 while the building was being refurbished. |
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Roszkalni House - Latvia
In the newly commenced Camphill Village in Roszkalni, Latvia, the first living house for mentally retarded people was planned and built in 2000-01. This is a rather large building (475kvm) and comprises of strawbale building, cordwood walls, clay plasters, clay floors, and construction of a Finnish mass oven, a wood fired boiler, with water central heating and passive solar power. |
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