Architecture and landscape design
Three height-segmented apartment buildings are planned in the residential area of Marjamäe Kodud.
ALL 3 BUILDINGS ARE COMPLETE:
– ASTANGU 50B/3 – a nine-story apartment building with 38 apartments
– ASTANGU 50B/2 – a seven-story apartment building with 51 apartments
– ASTANGU 50B/3 – a seven-story apartment building with 51 apartments
All three buildings are connected through a large common underground parking lot with storage spaces and technical rooms.
Parking and storage spaces
All apartments come with storage spaces located either in the basement of the building or on the ground floor. Each apartment also has a spacious balcony or terrace.
Parking is predominantly on the underground floor (with preparations to install an electric charger for electric cars), partially under the nine-storey building and to a small extent also in the open parking lot aboveground. Bicycles and strollers can be stored in outdoor storage rooms in front of the main entrance of the buildings and in common storage rooms on the ground floor.
Exterior finish
The external walls of the buildings are made of insulated reinforced concrete panels of different colours to which a relief structure is partially added. The facade surface of the buildings is articulated with glass facades at the full height of the staircases, balconies, terraces and cantilevered canopies on the top floors. The apartments have triple-glazed windows and balcony doors in plastic frames.
Landscape design
In the public space between the apartment buildings, semi-private recreation areas have been planned, which are embellished with landscape design techniques, plantings suitable for rooftop landscaping, a children’s playground and a sledding hill. The buildings of Marjamäe Homes follow the principle where the distance between two buildings is similar to the height of the building in order to divide the space between the buildings into several different smaller and more intimate and more clearly defined spaces.
Utility systems
The calculated energy efficiency of the apartment buildings corresponds to the energy label class “A”, which ensures low operating costs.
In addition, SOLAR PANELS are installed on the roof of the building, which cover a large part of the building's general electricity consumption!
Lift
Each building has a comfortable and spacious lift.
Ventilation
An individual ventilation system with heat recovery has been designed for the apartments, where the heat of the extracted air heats the supply air and thereby conserves energy. The units do not have an air cooling function.
Apartment-based ventilation units are generally wall-mounted and placed in the hallway, bathroom or wardrobe. The cooker hood is connected to the ventilation unit.
Heating
The heating works on the basis of district heating and as a water underfloor heating system, which can be conveniently adjusted by each apartment owner on a room-by-room basis. Each building has its own heating unit.
Water supply and sewerage
Remote cold and hot water meters are installed in each apartment, which automatically transmit readings to the corresponding central device. Hot water comes through district heating from the building-based heating unit.
Electricity
Each apartment has its own electric switchboard with circuit breakers and is ready to install a router. The apartment-based two-tariff remote electricity meter is located in the main switchboard room. Recessed LED lights will be installed in the suspended ceilings of the washrooms in the apartments, and weatherproof sockets will be installed on the balconies.
Communication and television
There are two ports for data transmission in the living room and one in the bedrooms. A communications network with CAT6 cabling will be built to connect to a telecommunications service company. A router can be installed in an electric switchboard. In order to communicate with visitors and to open the front door of the building, an intercom system with the ability to transmit a video image will be built.
Fire alarm
A smoke detector will be installed in each apartment. Common areas are protected with an automatic fire alarm system.
Structures
The buildings are built on pile foundations and have concrete load-bearing structures. The exterior walls of the apartment buildings are built using triple-layer sandwich-type reinforced concrete panels. The walls between apartments are assembled from reinforced concrete elements, and shafts are laid from masonry stones. The partitions inside apartments are painted plasterboard partitions with wool filling on a metal frame. Suspended ceilings are assembled from reinforced concrete hollow-core panels, on top of which an insulation layer is installed to prevent footfall noise and a concrete floor slab is poured. The building has a flat roof made of roll material roofing; the roof of the parking lot is landscaped.