Tysha
Architecture Lviv — Warsaw
Est. 2014 Now: 23 dB
Inside Lull House
Lull House from the forest: a long rammed earth wall with one door among tall pines, the lake in the morning mist behind

Lull
House

A house that listens to the forest.

Carpathian foothills · 2025
240 m² · Private house
23 dB average inside25 min to Lviv1.2 km to the nearest road01 / 04 projects
01 · The briefBedroom · 41 → 21 dB

They asked for one thing: to sleep without earplugs.

The family
Olena, Mark, two kids

A family of four, a fourth-floor flat above a tram line, eleven years of 41 dB nights. They wanted forest, quiet and a twenty-five-minute drive to school and work.

02 · The plot24 dB at night

We listened for seven days before we said yes.

Four plots were on the table. Two had better views. Only this one stayed under 25 dB at night.

A sound meter on a tripod in a clearing among pines, seen from high above
SILENCE_AUDIT_DAY_04.JPG06:10 · 24 dB
1.2kmTo the nearest road
24dBAverage night
41dBLoudest sound: a woodpecker
03 · The formL-shaped · 60 cm walls
Aerial view of the house on the lake shore, its walled courtyard with one tree

Turned away
from the road.

An L-shaped house wraps around a courtyard. To the road it shows one wall of rammed earth, 60 cm thick. To the forest, it opens completely.

Pencil plan of the house, from the courtyard to the jetty
04 · The planRoom by room · 38 → 21 dB

Loud at the door, quiet at the core.

  1. 01Entrance and garageA sound buffer facing the road: one closed wall, one door.38 dB · dayThe entrance side: a closed rammed earth wall with a single wooden door among the pines
  2. 02Kitchen and livingEast-facing, for morning light.31 dB · dayThe living room in morning sun, a woman with a cup of coffee on the bench by the window
  3. 03Quiet roomA worktable, no screens, one window to the courtyard.26 dB · dayThe quiet room: a stone model of the house on a worktable in hard sunlight
  4. 04Main bedroomThe deepest point of the house.21 dB · nightThe bedroom: rammed earth walls and one tall window to the pines
05 · MaterialsAbsorb, not echo

Materials that absorb, not echo.

Rammed earth wall

Rammed earth

60 cm walls of local clay.

Rammed earth block, larch board, sheep's wool and stone

Larch & wool

Larch ceilings soften the room; wool fills every partition.

Travertine corridor opening onto the lake

Travertine

Floors, the corridor and the courtyard.

The long window of the living room: acoustic glass between the room and the lake

Triple glazing

Acoustic laminated glass on the forest side.

06 · MeasuredThe first night
41dB · their old bedroom, above a tram line
21dB · the new one, measured with the family
The living room of Lull House at night, the moon over the lake
Pine Court, travertine houses among tall pines
Next · Pine Court26 dB · 20 min
Pine CourtSix houses near Lviv · Case coming 2027
07 · Your plot25 dB · in the contract
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