Kager VITA NOVA Wood & Glass House

Light. Nature. Home. Life.

VITA NOVA

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Take pleasure in the bright daylight, merge with nature, build your home and be in the centre of your living. KAGER houses present all these elements.

The family firm KAGER has followed the values they believe in – quality, perfection and individuality since 1989.

KAGER is a Slovene brand which combines building en-gineers, architects, numerous tradesmen and plenty of satisfied customers. The unique, tailor-made houses come to life under the carpenters’ and joiners’ vigilant eyes.

More than 800 families live in KAGER houses in Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Their experiences and stories can be an inspiration for you to create your own house in cooperation with us and our architects. Every single house is a story on its own; there simply are not two identical houses. The catalogue you are browsing through is meant to inspire and awake your creativity.

The guiding idea of the KAGER brand is creative engineer-ing of prefabricated houses, encouraged by love and ded-ication. There is our love for nature and work we perform, materials we use, the details we never forget. And there is dedication to work, particularities and the customers’ wishes. When we combine all these things, something eternal comes to existence. The result is a KAGER house: comfort and the combination of dedication and love.

Light. Nature. Home. Life.

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ConceptTake pleasure in the bright daylight, merge with nature, build your home and be in the centre of your living. VITA NOVA houses present all these elements.

A timber frame construction offers the creation of free, flexi-ble and innovative layouts with a free transit area, the possi-bility of creating rooms using built-in furniture and the log-ical organization of functional units: daily – living, sleeping – individual and the mutual separation of noisy and quiet parts or living and working parts. In particular, it enables fascinating existential contact with the outer space – an ex-tended living area in the atrium, garden, balcony or loggia in the open. The grid of the risers in the chosen construc-tion gives us a double openness: an open floor plan which extends freely into the environment and into the world.

With a thorough study of timber frame and glass construc-tions we can offer new functional, engineering, energet-ic and economical solutions in the system VITA NOVA.

DesignThe beginning of a design means deepening the idea. It means understanding and recognizing all the stripes, characters and notes that are collected on a piece of pa-per. Hand sketches and notes are a picture of the mental development of an idea. They summarise desires and thoughts of the future owner through pen and pencil of the architect and engineer.

Getting to know an idea is not enough. It is necessary to completely understand an idea. Only then absolute sat-isfaction will be achieved. Only perfect is good enough. Hours are irrelevant. All that matters is perfection at every step. Preparing for the workshop can take 14 days, it may take 20 days and it may take even longer. It takes as long

as it is necessary, there are no standards. The only standard is the final product.

Irrespective of the number of completed objects, each object is a different story for a designer. There is no matrix by which you can quickly reach your destination. There are no shortcuts, no type of documentation you’d throw. Everything is unique. Every project is as unique as each piece of wood built into your home. Just as there are no two identical pieces of wood, there are no two equal hous-es. Individuality and uniqueness are present at every step. Individuality began with you. It continues and is reflected in your house that will become your home.

Workshop, productionWorkshop or production? Workshop in the way of work and a production of its size.

The smell of wood welcomes us at the entry into the production unit. The scent fills us with joy and impa-tience. It reminds us of times when we were running through the woods and enjoying the open air. The scent connects us with life.

Here your and our dreams together with ideas become tangible. Who would not be pleased to participate in someone’s dreams, especially when these dreams are something beautiful and permanent.

The project and a set of workshop drawings are sent into production. Workshop drawings, related details and comments of the designer are divided between individual masters. With their teammates they prepare each part of your home. On one side of the workshop the walls begin to show their image, on the other side the ceiling is formed

and on the third side the roof is being made. Each group works themselves. Each group is specialized for one job. They are the best at what they do.

There is still significant mastery. The attitude and the work of every individual are very important. That is the gist of the workshop. With the formation of VITA NOVA there is no production. There is no serial or routine work. Each and every piece of the puzzle goes through the hands of these men. Each product is unique. Not only because of the architecture, it is unique because of the traces of human hands. Work of these hands leaves indelible marks. Sometimes in a fully treated wood and sometimes in small “errors” which indicate the presence and the role of the hu-man capital. It’s not that machines are not present. They are, but only in the segment where machines help to do the job faster and more efficiently. This is the work of cutting large pieces of wood. This part of work is left to the machines, leaving us more time to work on areas where machines are unable to compete with the feeling of human hands.

VITA NOVA is formed much longer than other objects. Why? Visible wood requires special treatment and care. Precise cutting is just not enough. It is only the beginning. Before shredding, a visual control of timber and timber screening is performed. Only the best cuts and even parts of individual pieces of wood are used for visible wood in the VITA NOVA. After sorting and selecting, the cutting of wood is done. Then follows patching and sanding. All these processes are fully manual. Only human hands and the human eye can detect all the errors or irregularities in the wood. Then follows the staining of wood, which is also carried out manually. We perform it manually because in this way we can preserve the natural appearance of wood. The brush follows the natural contours of wood. It em-phasizes its uniqueness. After these steps, the assembling of all these individual pieces of timber frame structure is

carried out. That is the basis for the installation of glass, windows and doors.

These are the reasons why making the VITA NOVA takes significantly longer than other prefabricated objects. But we are glad that the result of numerous hours is visible. You just need to take the time and have a look!

Construction siteThe idea is drawn. The project and detailed drawings are finished. In the workshop, the integral parts of the new building are made. There is no room for errors. The visible timber frame structure does not allow for corrections. There is no facade which would hide possible errors. There are no plaster casts and putty to cover the errors of production or designers. Every detail, every joint, every cut and every treatment is permanently visible.

In such a construction, the quality of business and skill of the entire team are shown. On the construction site there is the final image which shows whether everything went as it was conceived.

The final act, which is just as important as the previ-ous ones, will be made by construction workers. The elements of the new house should reveal no variations and no errors. To unload the elements from the truck, install and assemble them without any damage and de-fects requires skilled and experienced workers. There is no room for hammers, chainsaws and work force. With a lot of patience, element by element is put together into a complete unit, which must meet the expectations and desires of the customer.

Only a satisfied customer is a good enough conclusion!

The way of VITA NOVA


Let the sun shine on you every day from all directions. Let the love for nature dictate every corner of your home. Imagination is always free and it breathes as if it is on the top of the world. It is a living entity that deserves life. Light, flowing and synergetic. Tradition is taken into account and put into a contemporary context.

The VITA NOVA is a house which is based on bright spaces and well-conceived building details. The house blends in with the surroundings to become an invisible part of them. The light and openness that follow you in your home are a living privilege beyond comparison.

You live in nature and nature lives in your home. The VITA NOVA originates from an innovative construction plan that gives the feeling of boundlessness to it. That is why it can be totally adapted for your lifestyle and natural character-istics of your building plot.

The VITA NOVA means a symbiosis between the indoors and outdoors. Its pure love for wood and glass combines the living spaces and the surroundings of the house. It is a symbiosis that takes your breath away. An exceptional feeling of openness, freedom and endlessness give your home a totally new meaning. Hand treatment of the wood and completed details give it the elegance worth showing on the red carpet. It stresses our sensuality. The VITA NOVA desires to see, taste, hear and smell.

The VITA NOVA offers you referential plans, completely adjustable to your ideas, or enables you to realize your architect’s ideas.

Living for the borderless.

Freedom. Elegance. Openness. Modularity.

THE

VITA NOVA


The separation of the building plot, an intimate garden and an entry platform with a pushed away car park enable an undisturbed mix of indoor and outdoor living. Lying in a living room with an open door to the terrace conjure the feeling of sitting in the forest by the brook.

A mix of indoor and outdoor living


The biggest part of the ground floor presents the lounge, where a minimalism of indoor furnishing finds its expres-sion. Colour shades of intensive yellow and blue follow in a logical sequence. The largest part together with the dining room is calm, while a bright yellow colour of the kitchen and lounge fills the place with a positive energy.

A place for likely colours


There is a VITA NOVA under the hillsides of Pohorje, covered with shades of elegant grey, which offers you pampering at home. It feels good to relax in a Jacuzzi late in the evening, when you have the chance to reward yourself with some precious minutes. In the summer, a jump into the pool is an excellent chill-out. Additionally, there is a summer kitchen in order to move away to solitude or to have a pleasant time with your friends in a rustically furnished place.

Pampering at home


The main space is presented by a big living room, which opens upwards and continues towards an open dining room. Big windows connect the indoor ambient with an outdoor terrace and a pool. A band of glass roof gives the house a special charm.

The entry of light into the room is enabled by a band of glazed roof


Under the hillsides of Pohorje there is another VITA NOVA. The exterior of the house is sophisticated and in accord-ance with the white timber frame construction. Although the house is situated in a compact settlement, the proper arrangement of the surrounding area provides intimacy within the glass surfaces.

Elegance in white


The central element of the house is represented by the centrally embedded staircase lounge, divided into three meaningful parts: the living room, the dining room and the kitchen. A band of glazed roof and a gallery on the first floor further emphasize the openness and light, which are the essential characteristics of living in the VITA NOVA.

The central staircase as a furniture accessory


A house for two stands in a pleasant suburban settlement next to a forest. Simplicity is reflected in the timber frame construction in natural colours. Wood with visible annual rings expresses the touch of nature and brings the forest directly into the home, thus emphasizing the sense of familiarity.

Simplicity with the touch of nature


A living room opening into the upper part of the house enables direct communication between the lounge on the ground floor and an open gallery. Transparent stairs, which occupy a minimal part of the space, lead into the gallery. The gallery can be used as a study room or perhaps an open playroom for children.

Transparent stairs lead into a spacious gallery


The warm colors of timber frame structure in combination with large glass surfaces obscure the boundaries between exterior and interior. In the VITA NOVA you are at the same time in the kitchen and in the garden, sitting in the living room with the feeling you are walking down the hill to-wards the river Krka. A feeling of spaciousness is upgraded with two covered terraces - one in connection with a living room and the other in connection with the kitchen.

Large glass surfaces


An architecture dictates a relaxed breathing of the house as the central area with the dominant dining table opens up to the glazed roof, which give the whole area a very special light and mood. A window band above the work surface in the kitchen additionally offers views of the garden and completely loosens the strict design kitchen.

An architecture, which allows relaxation


A design is defined by a good setting into an idyllic sur-rounding with a beautiful view and an undisturbed access of sunlight to an open yard. In this way the house uses all the natural characteristics of the sun and is therefore classified as a low energetic house. The outside of the house is minimalist natural with sophisticated materials and surrounded by plenty of glass.

An undisturbed access of sunlight


The interior is modern and variegated, furnished with care-fully selected materials and furniture. It is mostly bright, despite a bit darker colour scheme. The living places downstairs and private places upstairs express the resi-dents’ tendency towards artistic awareness and culturally inspired living. One of the highlights of the ambient pres-ent the twisted stairs in black and white colour scheme which is fertilized by the stainless steel. The stairs occupy a minimal area and therefore enable a better usage of the space downstairs.

A contempo-rary ambient with twisted stairs


Stylish white lines of timber frame structure and the trans-parency of the glass surfaces are intertwined with mag-ical black furniture elements which give this VITA NOVA exceptional majesty. In addition, this majesty is further enhanced when we see that this house is surrounded by idyllic surroundings and its natural shades of brown and green, coming from a nearby forest and grassland.

Majesty of elegant white and magic black


Chosen with a refined sense, the furniture elements of white and black in high gloss are carefully placed between timber frame structural elements. The elements show the natural richness with their clean lines. The stylish white and black kitchen, the dining and the living room are enriched with a staircase with wooden floorboards in natural shades. The environment, of course, continuously complements this VITA NOVA.

Minimalist architecture and a white timber frame construction


LightLight and lifeDaylight varies throughout the day. In the morning, the waking day slowly brings light into the interior. In the evening, the day fades away and with it the natural light is replaced by the artificial one. Light is also changing due to the changing weather. The interior reflects a clear day, as well as the upcoming rain. The interior changes its appearance due to the position of the sun. Furthermore, the sun’s light colour changes with the seasons.

Why the reflection all of these changes through place if living is so important? It is important that we perceive changes through the interior of the outside world and also adapt them. Most of these perceptions happen on the subconscious level but they are crucial for our existence.

The view of the outside is one of the most important factors. It provides us with the contact and enables us to retrieve information about the external environment. The second level may be a bit less conscious, the psycho-logical impact of the outside view. Studies have shown that patients in hospitals recover more quickly when having a view of the outside.

Daylight has long been associated with health. The Roman architect Vitruvius wrote the following: “The architect must choose a place of light, as he also has to carefully and harmoniously plan the building, so that the building has a beneficial effect on the health of its residents.” Already in the 1st century BC, Vitruvius analysed the qualitative and quantitative impacts of daylight. At the same time, he pro-posed detailed rules for the assessment of an appropriate place illuminated by natural daylight.

The effect of light on human well-being and quality of lifeLight affects our behaviour and well-being more than you might realize. For thousands of years, the impulses from the living environment have been deposited in the form of unconscious pattern behaviour also known as biorhythm. Natural light is one of the essential factors that affect it. In the morning, light is different than at noon or in the evening. In New York it is different than in Barcelona or Paris. All of this affects our physiological processes in the body and our soul. If you enter a dark room, you can get in a bad mood. However, if you come to a bright place, you can improve your well-being. In principle, the warm white light is more enjoyable, because it gives us a sense of comfort, shelter, safety, kindness and even love.

Sunlight creates a welcoming atmosphere. Houses with lots of natural light and good views have a greater value. Natural light represents luxury!

Living in a VITA NOVA

OpennessLightness of being, freedomThe central space represents communication between the residents and the rooms in the house. The central space connects other parts of the house, both in the horizontal and vertical directions. In the horizontal direction by join-ing rooms in a complete harmonious whole; in the vertical direction by combining rooms with a staircase or even better with a gallery.

The way of life blurs the boundaries between dedicated rooms such as the kitchen, dining and living rooms, play-room … By combining rooms, the result is one large volume in which we can breathe with full lungs. Large volume evokes in us a pleasant feeling of living and quality. By connecting rooms, light gets a free way. Spaces get high-quality light throughout the day.

Open space evokes in us a sense of freedom. It offers us the freedom we desire in our everyday lives. It offers us a path and a way of life that we want to live.

Designing an open space as a place of stay is definitely a challenging job. The room still needs to be functional and aesthetically coherent. This is the basic task of every living space. To design a harmonious and balanced space is a major challenge for every architect. Usability of an open space is also in its flexibility. It can be transformed into a great place to hang out with friends, it can become a playroom for children and at warm days the extended part of the outer terrace.

Being in a bright and airy space, without barriers and lim-itations, feels comfortable and free. It gives us a sense of peace and freedom, which we miss in the fast pace of life.

NatureContact with natureThe VITA NOVA is inherent in nature. Inseparable because its basic construction and at the same time the primary structure is made of timber. Timber which is built into the VITA NOVA is of the highest quality. We love, respect and appreciate timber and therefore also like to show it. The look of timber will take you into the forest. The touch and smell of timber will awaken in you a feeling of comfort, joy and consequently the feeling of happiness.

Over thousands of years of human co-existence, the love of nature and timber is rooted in all of us. Large trans-parent surfaces enable us the contact with nature at every moment of the day. They allow us to experience the neighbourhood at every hour of the day, at any time of the year and in any weather. Through the large glass area we see the first rays of the sun, waking up a new day. From the shelter of our living room we look at the last rays of a cold autumn evening. With a book in our hands, we watch a drop of rain that predicts a storm in the distance. At the flames of fire coming from the fireplace, we watch the arrival of winter days which announce the first snowflakes.

Clean and sophisticated lines of first-class architectural ap-proaches continue to merge the house with the external environment. Diverse pergolas and balconies represent a link to green areas.

Living in a VITA NOVA does not only mean a high standard of living comfort, made possible by superior design and construction. Living in a VITA NOVA also means experienc-ing the environment. It’s our contact with nature at every moment of living!

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A decision to build a house does not only mean the fulfilment of life, but also an investment into life. That is why it is so important that your house precisely suits your expectations – your taste, habits, daily rhythm and lifestyle. There is a pleasant way to your new home with KAGER creative engineering since we are at your disposal with our professional knowledge and good will before, during and after the construction. We look forward to visiting you at your building plot or meeting you at our company in Ptuj. We invite you to give us a call or send us an e-mail so we can set up a date for our meeting.

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