Room for 2 people
Plevnya - guesthouse
The story
The Story
A hundred years ago a Bulgarian family built their house and barn in Karpachevo. The barn hosted sheep, pigs, cows, and a donkey, the second floor was used for storing hey and grain and for drying herbs. The first family and the house are far gone now but the barn has been given a new life...
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The PLEVNYA (barn) project
The two latter families asked another family of friends, prominent Bulgarian architects, to transform the barn into a guesthouse. HERE WE ASK FOR VYARA AND GEORGE’S HELP
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The Green Roof
In the meantime, yet another family of friends stepped on the stage. They were just starting a new business – production of green roofs, very modern and novel for Bulgaria. It no time it was decided that the Old Barn will have the first slope green roof in Bulgaria.
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The Implementation
The roof beam was high, and so was the challenge. Digging deep to install a water-cleaning station and drainage, combining old and modern materials and techniques, making out-of-the-box decisions day after day, installing a complex fundament for the green roof, trying to preserve as much as possible the authentic construction...
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