Built back in the 19th century, the Krasnopresnensky baths have turned into a huge modern health complex that carefully preserves all the bathing traditions of the past. In the early 2000s, a large-scale reconstruction and redevelopment of the premises was carried out here, and now there are many women's and men's departments of various categories, as well as Russian steam rooms, Finnish saunas, spacious pools, hot tubs, its own gym, solarium, laundry and salon beauty. In terms of price and quality, perhaps the best baths in Moscow. A great place for a male or female company, family holidays, young people and the elderly. Clean, comfortable and very friendly.

A real palace of bathing art, built in 1808 and still popular among Muscovites and visitors. The interiors amaze with their splendor, you can come here as if on an excursion to the museum and immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the century before last right from the doorstep. There are three men's and two women's bath departments, there are spacious lounges, many showers, deep pools under huge vaults with stucco, real Russian steam rooms. The restaurant "Sanduny" always serves cold beer, mead, rye kvass with horseradish, ice vodka, dishes of Russian, Uzbek and Chinese cuisine.

The oldest three-story bath complex in Moscow, which has been under reconstruction for a long time. But after it was acquired by the Gizma Project company and underwent a major overhaul, a restaurant was located on the ground floor. The women's department occupies the entire second floor, the men's - on the third. The bathrooms are huge and very clean. There is a small pool where you can take a dip after the steam room. Tuesday is the day of visiting only for preferential categories of citizens. On other days the visit is at full price. And although the prices cannot be called low, you can purchase a subscription for 5 or 10 visits.

There are three bath departments here: women's and two men's (first and second category). The steam rooms are made of hardwood (oak, ash, larch, linden) and equipped with gas stoves with cast-iron ingots, which create the atmosphere of a real traditional Russian bath. The institution works all year round without interruption, despite summer water cuts, there is always hot water here. On Sunday mornings, a special steam is served here with eucalyptus, horseradish and fullness - the best remedy for a cold. Boiling water containers are installed everywhere, you can brew tea for free. There is an ice-cold pool, massage tables and its own restaurant, where they cook delicious food.

The oldest baths in Moscow, built in 1888, are included in the list of "14 most interesting baths in the world", according to Forbes. The procedure of soaring is erected here into a real ritual. Thanks to the unique atmosphere of the vaulted steam rooms, which have not been rebuilt since its inception, you can always try a real "light steam" here. And thanks to its own boiler room, it is possible to constantly maintain the correct temperature in the steam rooms. There are women's, men's departments, as well as superior rooms.

The bath complex is located in several Stalin-era buildings built in 1938. Despite this, modest but high-quality repairs have been made in all departments. However, real connoisseurs loved this place for high-quality steam, cold pools and fonts, and at very affordable prices. In addition to the public section, there are several VIP rooms with private booths. One of the few places in Moscow where the visit time is not taken into account, and you can relax at least all day.

Izmailovo baths have been famous for many years for their luxurious interior, perfect cleanliness and order. That is why it is customary to come here with children, especially since children under 7 years old enter for free, from 7 to 12 years old - a 50% discount. There is a hairdressing salon, a body philosophy studio, and a solarium in the bath building. Here you can get a manicure and pedicure, visit the spa-procedures. Two large halls receive visitors divided into "male" and "female" days. It is better to clarify the schedule and coordinate the visit in advance by phone.

A popular public bath since Soviet times. Simple and cozy interior, calm pleasant music, spacious and bright halls, visiting time is not limited. Friendly staff, professional masseurs and attendants meet and see off any client as a family member. In the building of the bath complex there is a beauty salon, a hairdresser, departments of the Finnish sauna, Russian bath, Turkish bath. A large selection of aromatic oils for the steam room, a spacious deep pool with ice-cold water, separate changing cabins where tea and dishes from a cafe with Russian cuisine are served.

The bath has existed since 1936 and consists of 6 halls, made in different styles. The facility is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Steaming in the Russian bath is carried out on birch wood. Three large renovated halls can accommodate large companies of up to 25 people. There are two small family saunas designed for 2-6 people. Professional bath attendants soar with oak and birch twigs and do massages. The complex has 10 lounges, its own gym, karaoke, large swimming pools and a billiard room.

Bathhouses appeared in the 18th century, water for them was taken from the nearby Neglinensky ponds. Seleznevsky baths, along with Sandunovsky, were a favorite vacation spot. The Seleznevsky baths are unique in their design - the buildings of the red brick baths do not stand on the foundation, but on oak piles, under which small rivers flow.

Bath of the peoples of the world, what a huge variety of traditions and customs of different peoples and countries. Among the peoples of Africa, water has always been considered sacred; they widely used hydrotherapy in their mystical rites and rituals. In countries where there was sand, they dug a hole in it the size of a person, in this hole they made a fire from branches and branches. Then the remnants of the fire were removed from the pit and dry heated sand was poured there, various useful herbs and leaves were laid, depending on what diseases the person was complaining about. Sometimes the fire was not burned, but the pit was poured with boiling water.

A person lay down in a pit (or lay down), covered with various medicinal herbs on top, and sand hot from the sun was piled on top of the body.

The time spent by a person in such a bath was determined by his state of health.

Snow bath…

In the glorious city of Baikalsk, Andrey Pylyukh and Vladimir Zolotchenko built an ice bath. Baikalsk is a small city in the south of Lake Baikal, not far from Irkutsk.

All walls are lined with ice. Up to 15 people can fit inside. The bathhouse walls are only 2 cm thick, if you do not take into account the ice. The technology, according to the author, is unique; oligarchs sometimes order such bathhouses for their dachas.

Not far from the bathhouse there is a font. Everything, of course, is made of ice.

The cost of a 2-hour bath rental is 5000 rubles

Bathhouse accommodates 15 people.

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Floating sauna in the middle of the Vltava river in Prague…

Many large cities have a river that divides them into parts, creating both an incredible atmosphere and a huge number of problems in terms of transport and infrastructure. Has a river and the Czech capital Prague! And architects Andrea Kubna and Ondrej Lipensky offer a way to use these expanses of water to good use, they propose to create a floating bathhouse on the Vltava.

In the very center of Prague, a floating bathhouse Floating bath on Vltava river may also appear.

This structure will have a diameter of 50 meters. Inside it will be located a reservoir open to the sky with a depth of 165 centimeters. It will be separated from the Vlatava River itself by a special textile membrane that filters debris, dirt, algae and bacteria. This pool can take up to 300 people at the same time. And around it there will be cabins for vacationers (24 cabins in total).

People will sail here on public and private boats. Here they can take a steam bath, swim in the pool, eat in a restaurant, just sit and relax on the sunbeds or in the lounge. The closed circular structure will protect the interior space of the Floating bath on Vltava river from the noise, dust and bustle of Prague, the center of which is very close.

In the winter season, inside the Floating bath on Vltava river complex, it will be possible to create an ice rink - after all, in Prague there are severe frosts in winter, and the Vltava River completely freezes.

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Transcarpathian bath. Soaring in Chan.

The first balneary in Transcarpathia (p. Lumshory) was built in the 17th century (about 1600). Mineral water in the village flows directly from the cliff, and this was used by local princes and merchants to treat their shabby organisms.

Cold mineral water was poured into large wooden troughs, and then with the help of red-hot stones, the temperature was brought to the desired level. Then two large cast-iron vats were cast, one of which is now in the Vienna Museum, and the second with a local resident.

The organization of the process is very simple. Mineral water is poured into a cast-iron vat. A fire is lit underneath. Flat river stones are laid at the bottom of the vat, so that the hot bottom does not burn. And the temperature slowly rises to 45-50 degrees. The vat is quite roomy (diameter 2.5m, depth 0.8m, wall thickness from 40 to 60mm). The four of you can feel quite comfortable. A few steps away flows a small mountain river with ice water. There are small dams in it, so that you can plunge headlong. The procedure takes no more than one hour. It is very effective in winter, when there is snow all around and ice on the banks of the river. And you are lying in hot mineral water, drinking tea infused with mountain herbs and honey.

You can add decoctions and infusions of herbs to the water. You can put a couple of armfuls of fragrant herbs in the water. And the procedure is not as tough as when soaring in traditional steam rooms. Warming up of body tissues occurs at a deeper level and more evenly, gentle. The heat capacity of water is much greater than that of air and does not require high temperatures.
In a vat you relax more, you get pleasure contemplating the world around you from a vat. In case of overheating, there is a pond with cold water nearby. As a rule, two or three entries into the vat, followed by dipping into the water, take place in one hour. And this happens so naturally, without violence against the body, that you are already starting to think about betraying the traditional bath with a broom.

A water bath cannot be compared with other types of baths. After her, her incomparable sensation, a slight tingling, like needles, evenly throughout the body.
After several visits (into the vat, and then into the river), it seems that your muscles and bones have been replaced with new, younger ones. The body breathes with health, and the nervous system is immersed in a state of complete calm and contemplation. It is clear that hot mineral water cures problems of the musculoskeletal system, and contrasting cold water from a living river triggers the rejuvenation mechanisms.

When building such a bath, you will need to build a font with a water cooling system.

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Architects from the Canadian firm Partisans have realized an original design for a sauna made entirely of wood. In addition to the fact that the project is completely wooden, it is integrated into the rock and is located in a picturesque region rich in artesian springs. The project is called The Grotto.

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Located in an active volcanic zone, the Japanese archipelago has a huge number of geothermal water outlets. Practical Japanese people use them to heat houses, greenhouses, to supply water to public baths, and to create tourist centers. Staying in a hotel built on a hot spring is quite expensive. But that doesn't deter visitors. Rooms in such hotels for the weekend must be booked a couple of weeks in advance.

At hotels, entire cascades of “rotenburo” are often arranged - open-air baths, where the views of bathers are not limited by walls and fences, but, on the contrary, they have magnificent views of mountains, valleys, copses. The Japanese, like the Russians, love to warm their bones. And here the young mountains of the Japanese archipelago serve well, supplying hot mineralized geothermal water. In the hotel, standing on the source, there is certainly a list of the elements contained in the water.

Somewhere in this hotel there is sure to be a pool, into which healing water constantly flows, often smelling of sulfur or something else similarly caustic. The Japanese believe that the range of these underground aromas turns an ordinary bath into a truly wellness event. It is believed that it is water from mountain sources that is especially useful for general strengthening of the body. Venikov, however, no. How do you bathe in a hot spring? In general, just like in a regular bath or bath. Entering the dressing room, you take off your clothes and put them in a plastic basket. In return, you get a small towel. Then go to the "bath" itself. Shower devices are built into the wall, under which, sitting on a bench, you wash off the first dirt, using a towel as a washcloth. Then comes the turn of the pool.

The water there is usually much hotter than what we are used to. But the Japanese endure it quite calmly. The Russian, on the other hand, climbs into it centimeter by centimeter, cursing and groaning, until he finally settles to the bottom. During all these procedures, you use a small towel in its other function - as a fig leaf. With a generally calm attitude towards everything bodily, for some reason it is considered decent to carelessly cover a causal place while bathing in these very hot springs. True, the owners of some hotels located on the springs began to prohibit this practice, since hot mineral water corrodes these towels and the quality of the water becomes worse from this. After soaking in hot water, you return to the shower and wash yourself completely. "Rotenburo" are arranged in the secluded corners of parks and gardens, on the slopes of the mountains, where there are usually no passers-by.

The craving for nature, for the natural is wonderful, but in Japan they know how to bring this feeling to the absolute, offering the client very exotic, from the point of view of a European, onsen entertainment. So, for example, in winter in Hokkaido, those who wish can take a hot mineral bath right in the ice. Wooden tubs are frozen into the icy surface of a frozen lake and hot water from a natural source is supplied through bamboo pipes. The client, overlooking the snow-covered surface of the lake, can drink warm sake rice wine, basking in warm mineral water.

But in Wakayama Prefecture, the owners of the Arita Kanko hotel came up with hot baths in a suspended cable car. A large iron container, divided into several baths, moves from the top of one mountain to another on ropes thrown over a gorge on the seashore. They are filled with hot water from the onsen. The clients each climb into their own bath, and an aerial flight over the abyss begins. Unforgettable impressions are left not only by an unusual combination of a hot bath and goosebumps that involuntarily run through the body when looking down. The body, which has lost its weight in the water, seems to soar in the sky.

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This unique recreational facility has only one specific place so far - the city of Tbilisi. The capital of Georgia was named so because it was located near warm sulfur springs flowing from under Mount Tabor.

The temperature of the spring averages 37 degrees. You might think, what kind of bath is this? However, Georgian architects designed special rooms below ground level. Only unique domed roofs are visible on the surface. In the center of the hall there are pools lined with marble or local porous stone, into which hot water from a sulfur spring flows through clay pipes. Such a device is somewhat reminiscent of Japanese sentos.

These baths were visited by Griboyedov, Pushkin, who immensely praised the wellness spa treatments and the skill of the attendants.
The benefits of sulfur baths

Sulfur-enriched water affects people suffering from various diseases in different ways. Its main advantage is that it dilates blood vessels gently, without sudden jumps. Regular use of sulfuric-alkaline waters normalizes many processes in the human body. So, hypertensive patients moderately and calmly lower blood pressure, and hypotensive patients, on the contrary, bring it up to normal. Sulfuric waters are recommended for patients suffering from various diseases of the joints. Increased blood flow helps to accelerate the metabolism in these places and, as a result, restore tissues, relieve pain and increase motor activity. Sulfur water sources have an anti-inflammatory effect: they heal wounds, relieve skin inflammation and accelerate the regeneration of the skin.

A sulfur bath is not only water filled with a sulfuric component. This is moderately hot water, which, in combination with sulfur, has a relaxing and at the same time mild tonic effect.

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Do you love the bath and know everything about the bath? Have you ever soared on a funicular or tram? A broom and a tub are not enough for people of our time, give them something unusual. And after all, they serve it - in the strangest baths in the world. Let's go through them.

Extreme sauna in Ylläs (Finland)

Why is there a lift in ski resorts? Of course, for the quick ascent of skiers to the slope. But in Finland they decided differently: why don’t those who are inside the lift not spend time with benefit? During the entire time that the lift goes up and then down, vacationers can enjoy all the delights of a real steam room. "Flying bath" is designed for a company of four people. An extreme part of the "cultural program" can be the traditional "diving" into the snow on one of the mountain peaks.

Bath-message in Milan (Italy)

While Estonians are participating in a large-scale sauna marathon and running around the city, looking for baths using maps, Italians offer tourists a more measured option - a sauna in a tram car. The authors of the idea planned to prove to everyone that Milan public transport is not a place to get another portion of stress. They are sure that in city trams one can relax, dream and have a rest. Unusual bath is ready to take up to 10 people at the same time. After a standard set of procedures, vacationers can take a breath in front of a plasma screen, on which videos about the history of Milan's public transport are played non-stop.

Sauna is not for everyone in Budapest (Hungary)

At the foot of Mount Gellert stands a luxurious hotel built at the beginning of the last century. But all fans of spa treatments know this place thanks to the famous Gellert baths. Marble columns, monumental arches, stained-glass windows of amazing beauty, exquisite mosaics in steam rooms and baths… A truly charming atmosphere has been created here. Vacationers are invited to visit three levels. Perhaps, all the most interesting awaits the guests of the lower tier: there is a hammam, a sauna and three baths. The water in each bath is of a certain temperature: cold, warm and hot. Bath treatments can be supplemented with a massage or a mud bath. On the second level there is a swimming pool, the roof over which moves apart. The pool is surrounded by a two-tier colonnade with galleries. In the yard there is another pool with its "excesses": an artificial wave and cascades of stone terraces.

Bath for contemplators in Tokyo (Japan)

Many things in the Land of the Rising Sun seem surprising and unusual to Europeans, including public sento baths. Sterile cleanliness, tranquility, the absolute absence of haste or fuss along with a strict sequence of all procedures are the main features of Japanese baths. One of the most popular sentos is the Daikoku-Yu bath in Tokyo. It first opened its doors to visitors in 1927. In the 90s, a large-scale reconstruction was carried out inside the building, while the external appearance remained intact. Today, few tourists can distinguish a public bath in the outlines of a Buddhist temple. Without exception, all sento visitors must comply with the most stringent requirements, so bathing procedures are slightly reminiscent of a measured ritual. Get rid of shoes first, then clothes. Next, thoroughly wash yourself in the shower on a special tiny stool, and only then take a dive into one of the baths, where you can finally completely relax. By the way, the bath is shared: several people can be in it at the same time. In Daikoku-Yu there are several such baths, with hot and cool water, as well as with a massage effect. Another bath - roten-buro - is located in the courtyard, which is surrounded by a small garden, of course, in the Japanese style. Those with tattoos are usually reluctant to enter sento, but in Daikoku-Yu, they say, you can easily find yourself in the same bath with a yakuza whose body is painted “under Khokhloma”. It is interesting that recently, in an attempt to popularize sento among tourists, the owners, with the support of local authorities, began to publish special instructions-comics that do not allow breaking the main rules of sento.

Steam room for party people in Berlin (Germany)

In 2005, the Liquidrom bathhouse was opened in Berlin - an ideal option for party-goers. A visit to the steam room, diving in the pool or massage treatments are accompanied by popular dj sets. Those who wish are invited to visit the Finnish sauna, salt cave or visit the panoramic sauna, one of the walls of which is made of glass. Every hour the lucky ones can get free massage treatments: honey, salt or aromatic. If you want more intense relaxation, you can order a Balinese massage with herbal bags or a Thai massage with hot stones. A favorite place for guests is a huge swimming pool, where impromptu discos are held - cheerful music combined with multi-colored lighting create the necessary mood. Interestingly, if you dive, it seems as if loud music is playing in the headphones. In addition, live concerts are organized by the pool on weekends for every taste: from classical and jazz to rock and electronica.

Space bath (CS "Mir")

Is there life on Mars? Science does not know this. But it is known for certain that a real sauna was once located on the Mir space station. The special design of the steam room was developed by employees of the Energia rocket and space corporation, headed by Vladimir Komolov, who began working on the project as a student. The cosmonauts themselves, on the one hand, were pleased, they even asked for birch brooms to be delivered. On the other hand, they complained about the exhausting cleaning after each “wash”, and the low efficiency of the process - the water was “smeared” over the body, like jelly. However, due to significant energy consumption and excessive water consumption, the steam room was dismantled. Today, astronauts have to make do with special wipes and "dry" shampoo.

Bath in Giusti Cave (Tuscany, Italy)

The history of the unique thermal spring began in 1848, when it was accidentally found by workers in Giusti Cave. A visit to this place is unforgettable: the unique outlines of stalactites and stalagmites, shadows moving along the walls of labyrinths and an eerie silence. To reach the natural spring, located 200 meters underground, guests are invited to go through three zones with very symbolic names - "Paradise", "Purgatory" and "Hell". The closer to "Hell", the higher the temperature. High humidity and natural air ventilation mechanism makes the stay in the cave extremely comfortable. The brochure says that a visit to Giusti Cave will cleanse the body of toxins and fully restore both physical and mental balance. And if you can argue about the latter (phobias are not easy to defeat!), then the unique natural atmosphere of the ancient grotto, for sure, has a beneficial effect on the body.

Unusual technologies break into our lives faster than a tornado: today, even those who have not yet figured out the smartphone consider themselves residents of the last century. And the same story in construction: no matter how proven and kind glorious bricks and logs turn out to be, tomorrow the baths will already begin to “spit out” huge printers, and ordinary people today are building their steam rooms from improvised materials, competing in whose architectural invention will last longer . Have you always dreamed of building an amazing steam room on the site? Take advantage of new technology!

Baths in style 2999

To build a bath with ideal geometric shapes according to a standard drawing? Boring things! So, at least modern architects think, and pervert with forms as best they can:

Would you like to build such a miracle? Here are a couple more photo instructions:

Volumetric-modular construction: the time of transformers

This interesting construction method appeared not so long ago in North America, and today there are entrepreneurs in Russia who have taken note of the idea. It all looks like this: in the morning a truck with a container arrives at the land plot, the cargo is removed from the trailer and placed on the foundation (concrete slab or piles, for example). Only four people turn the house around with their bare hands and connect devices with communications. It was the first day.

On the second day, furniture is brought in and the space is minimally decorated. On the third day, you can already call in and live with the whole family. More of these containers - more spacious house. The minimum area of ​​one such house is as much as 70 sq.m.

Moreover, it is not at all difficult to equip a Finnish sauna in such a house as a built-in one. And if you want to move somewhere, such a house-bath is also quickly disassembled and transported in the same container. In the second - already furniture, sauna and household appliances. Amazing, isn't it?

Of course, this is an economical option. One such container costs in Russia from 15,000 to 30,000 rubles per square meter. True, at this stage the issue of the expensive transportation of such a house has not yet been resolved. So for now, prefabricated Canadian bathhouses are not very interesting for a simple Russian person, although marketers are actively working on this problem.

In the meantime, mini-saunas without a foundation are gaining popularity:

Transparent concrete: steam rooms in the form of ice sculptures

A sensational novelty among building technologies is transparent concrete. This innovative composite material has the ability to truly transmit light, yet it truly has all the properties of conventional concrete. The same strength, water resistance, heat and noise insulation. But from now on, in such a bathhouse it will be possible to see not only which stove is used and how many regiments are in the steam room, but also the vacationers themselves.

This miracle of technology came to us from the USA. For the first time, fences of government buildings began to be built from it, but in Sweden and Japan several transparent objects have already been built. For example, the BMW main building was built using this particular technology, for which it received the German Architecture Prize in 2005.

Lighting fixtures are also created from transparent concrete, the creator of which, the architect A. Losonci, now lectures around the world about the possibilities of building from such a material.

Transparent concrete consists of a fine-grained matrix and fiber - dispersed-reinforced pieces of glass fibers. This material has excellent compressive, bending and tensile strength, good impact strength and frost resistance. But the weight, unlike ordinary concrete, is 40-60% less.

But in Russia, transparent concrete is referred more to heat-insulating materials than to a monolith - there is even such a term as PTI, transparent thermal insulation. There, by the way, polycarbonate also applies. Another transparent concrete that is actively used abroad is concrete, which is made by crushing broken glass on special equipment and gluing them together. But it’s impossible to see something completely through such walls - in the same bathhouse only silhouettes will be visible. Read more about new construction technologies on the remvizor.ru website - there are a lot of worthy articles there.

We also note separately the Frozen Smoke airgel, which is also called “frozen smoke”. It is all 1% silicic anhydride and 99% air. From a bath built using such material, it is simply breathtaking: it seems that the bricks are just hanging in the air! But this gel is also fireproof, which is of particular value for a steam room.

Being very light, airgel is able to hold huge weights. And it is even used in space - to catch dust from the tail of comets. But it looks like a cosmic miracle will soon be in every home - all leading architects are sure of this. Shelves, oven and even stones in the air - why not? There will be something to surprise your friends!

3D printers - the future is here!

Already in several countries, special construction printers are being prepared for release at the same time, which are capable of printing entire buildings. These are the same 3D printers, only huge, and they print not with paint, but with concrete.

In appearance, the 3D printer looks like a living constructor: an overhead crane with a lifting capacity of 300 kg and a working area of ​​up to 20 m. Special rails are also thought out for the design itself.

So, literally in a day, just one of the printers is able to “print” a house with an area of ​​200 sq.m. Instead of the reinforced foundation, to which we are accustomed, fiber cement is used, or rather, pseudo-reinforcement from it in the form of a W-bond. Concrete is supplied from a device similar to a construction gun, and the curing time of concrete in different places is strictly calculated. But the first step towards such a revolution was machine plastering, which saves a lot of time and provides a remarkable quality of work.

But while a 3D printer raises a lot of questions for many: will fiber cement replace a real foundation, how quickly does the mixture used harden to hold a new layer on itself, and why does it then not harden in the hose itself? How expensive will it be to rent such a colossus and how to move it? These are the questions that the creators of the 3D printer are working on. Recall that the fax at one time was also from a series of science fiction, and 3D images were considered unrealizable at all. Therefore, it is quite possible that the scenario in the near future will develop as follows: in the morning they wanted a bathhouse on the site - in the afternoon a 3D printer arrived - in the evening they already started the first wall decoration!

So, in Southern California, Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis has already built something similar - his creation builds a house by releasing separate finished blocks, the dimensions of which are strictly calculated. This 3D printer model is equipped with a special nozzle through which the concrete is poured. Everything is controlled by a computer. This technology is called "Contour Crafting", and thanks to it, a completely finished frame of a house or a bath appears on the white light. But windows, doors and communications are all done by hand.

You will be surprised, but in fact, 3D printers have been around for a long time and are actively used. With the help of such technologies, wood, iron and polymers are already being printed. So why not build entire houses the way wasps and bees do?

Construction of a bath with fixed formwork

Yes, we are talking about the most convenient non-removable formwork, which is increasingly used today for foundations - convenient and heat-efficient. But more recently, walls have also been built from such material. Moreover, today the main material is still used foam - such houses turn out to be warm and inexpensive, and with properly organized ventilation, the microclimate in such a building will turn out to be absolutely healthy. That's just when building a bath using such an unusual technology, it is customary to remove the foam from the inside of the building - after the concrete itself has hardened. And use more natural materials as a heater.

But in the near future, scientists are going to apply more environmentally friendly alternatives to polystyrene using the same technology. So warm and light saunas will be built in just a week!

The only thing that the owners of such houses are worried about is that any polystyrene foam contained in the laminate, plastic windows, polystyrene foam, rubber mats and linoleum will release the harmful volatile substance phenol. Therefore, ventilation in a modern house is really needed not only because of the walls.

Bath-domes: unique technology in a new way

You have already heard that unique greenhouses, houses and baths in the form of geodesic domes are being built: here is an example of this amazing technology:

And this architectural miracle is really economical and looks amazing on any site, which is why work on this method continues to this day. And now, another know-how: now such houses and baths will not be built, and not even printed, but ... inflated.

This method was proposed by the architect Nicolo Bini. In just a couple of hours with little expense, a wonderful building is obtained, without seams and any interpanel joints. This dome is called Binishell, and the forefather of this technology was Dante Bini, who built a similar house right next to the active volcano Etna. Moreover, the domed house was able to withstand both hurricanes and earthquakes. And here is how the beanieshell is built today:

• Step 1. The foundation is being built.
• Step 2. A ball and a solid membrane are laid on the foundation.
• Step 3 Temporary formwork is installed around the ball.
• Step 4. All this is poured with a good layer of concrete.
• Step 5. Now, with the help of a powerful pump, the balloon is inflated to the desired size. Not yet hardened concrete takes the form of a dome.
• Step 6. The balloon is deflated and packaged for the construction of the next house.

Inexpensive, effective and pretty. A “green” roof is often arranged on such houses, and then the result is generally amazing.

Cordwood-baths: a masterpiece with your own hands!

This material for construction is called "clay". Ordinary wooden firewood and clay with straw are taken as the basis (In translation, cordwood means “woodpile”). And, even if right now you imagine that you can only build a decrepit rural house this way, you are mistaken:

Here are the main advantages of such eco-houses:

1. Building materials are free.
2. Excellent thermal insulation.
3. 100% environmentally friendly.
4. Original appearance.
5. Durability and amazing ease of repair.

Clay and wood have a similar ability to absorb and release moisture. In summer, in such a bath it will even be cool, until the stove is kindled, and in winter it will be warm. The walls instantly absorb and release moisture, and therefore there is no point in worrying about some kind of insulation and expensive foil material.

So, you still don't have a bath due to a limited budget? Adopt this unusual technology and all your neighbors will be amazed!

• Step 1. We prepare good firewood and clay. It is better not to take whole firewood for such buildings - they can, unfortunately, crack. But chopped, especially aspen, will do just fine. A good length of firewood is from 40 to 60 cm. Now make a canopy over the finished walls and hold them like this for 1.5-2 months.
• Step 2. We make a rubble base as the foundation of the bath. It should go into the ground no more than a meter deep. Pour the stone in layers with clay or cement mortar.
• Step 3. Get colored glass bottles for wall decorations.
• Step 4 Cut the hay with an ax so that it is not long. The amount of clay should be 20% of the total volume of firewood. And the amount of straw is 10-15% of the volume of clay. It is this composition that will not allow the clay to crack later. Here's how to mix: in a trough of water, mix sand with clay and add hay directly there. Here is the mixture on the firewood and lay out.
• Step 5 Place supports if the bath will have a standard rectangular shape.
• Step 6. We lay out the walls: in a continuous way, with an air gap or with some kind of insulation. For example, the void space can be filled with sawdust - it will be much warmer.
• Step 7. We make a roof: ordinary or just from straw.
• Step 8. We install the stove and shelves - the bath is ready! But if you are going to finish such a bath, then let it settle for at least a year.

Moreover, steam rooms with such walls are very warm and absolutely environmentally friendly.

Interestingly, in Canada you can still find houses built using exactly this technology 100 years ago - and they are in excellent condition! And historical documents say that such buildings existed even in Greece and Siberia.For example, the St. Petersburg "House of Lovers" is made of ordinary birch firewood and is already several hundred years old!

Despite the thickness of the walls, the construction itself turns out to be surprisingly light, and a strip rubble foundation is really enough for it.By the way, there are baths that are built from bottles alone:

But if you are building such a bath with corners, then bandage the rows in these places as with brickwork.

Great ideas and inspiring progress, isn't it?