The Houses in Rudnik are located next to the former workers' settlement. Eighteen row houses are arranged into three sections. The wooden wall separated residential area from a busy road. TheHouses represent a cheap housing for young people. The construction is financed by the municipality, by the government subsidy as well as by the future residents who will later become the owners of the houses. The house is affordable to a family with just a lower income. The price of the house is about the same as the price of a new medium-class car. The inside dimensions of one unit are 3.6 x 12 metres. The interior layout utilizes the advantages of a single residential room with a built-in kitchen and a wooden staircase leading onto the first floor where there are two bedrooms. The ground floor offers various layout variants to be chosen by the residents.
The House is a prototype of a cheap and quickly-to-build housing suitable for outskirts of big cities, for lower-living-standard regions, for flooded areas or areas affected with floods or earthquakes, etc. The construction time is 6 to 9 months. The structure of the Houses is a combination of the classic and prefabricated technologies. Besides being very cheap, the transversal ceramic-block bearing walls are good heat accumulators and sound insulators. The prefabricated face walls and ceilings utilize the advantages of precise assembly and partial prefabrication. In this way, the construction work can be adapted to the weather conditions.
The facade of the Houses in Rudnik is of raw cement-bonded compressed wooden boards (colour and material variants available - plywood, wood chipboard, metal sheet, etc.). The windows are wooden, the entrance door is made of the black constructional plywood. The noise barrier at the road and the terraces are of pine battens. The main materials are in natural colours. Requiring just a small maintenance, they will weather to a pleasant patina-like appearance. The roofs are covered with a extensive green-vegetation layer (minimum maintenance). The grasses and plants are similar to those growing on neighbouring meadows. The spaces between the row-house sections are utilized as gardens with apple and pear trees. The perimeter of the houses and the noise barrier has been planted with climbing plants that will veil them into a colorful garment with time.
