Feel good, made of wood

Five townhouses

Ligno Living is a small residential development in Riga, set on a quiet street in Bieriņi.

Ten residences

Twin residences of approximately 200 square metres each, built entirely from cross-laminated timber (CLT).

Built from wood

Two storeys, high performance CLT-built with visible wood structures inside. Mature trees outside.

Choosing to live differently

Most homes are assembled. This one is composed. Structure, interior, light, landscape. It was created by people who agreed on what a house should feel like before they agreed on what it should look like.

The decision was wood. Houses built from engineered timber. Because the materials we live around matter. Wood naturally balances indoor humidity, creates a stable microclimate, and adds a sense of warmth impossible to imitate.

Gold and diamonds can be made artificially. They exist throughout the universe. Wood cannot. Wood is alive. Wood breathes. Wood grows.

Engineered, not decorative

Cross-laminated timber, or CLT, is the structural backbone of contemporary timber architecture in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Scandinavia. In the Baltics, this remains rare.

Houses at Ligno Living are built from CLT. Walls, floors, ceilings. It is left visible where it deserves to be seen.

Atmosphere

Wood stabilises humidity, softens acoustics and holds temperature. Timber surfaces add warmth.

Permanence

Engineered timber is a long-life material. Strength and resistance are built into the structure.

Precision

Prefabricated timber elements. Assembled with tighter tolerances than conventional construction.

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Calm geometry, honest material

ARCHITECTURE BY  EDUARDS BEERNAERTS · 7AM ARCHITECTS

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Two storeys. Twin residences. Contemporary CLT-built architecture rooted in the site’s history.

The houses are designed by 7AM Architects, the studio behind the Lithuania-Latvia Pavilion at EXPO 2025 Osaka, working from a simple brief: build something that earns its place among the trees.

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ARCHITECTURE BY  EDUARDS BEERNAERTS · 7AM ARCHITECTS

The structure is the surface

INTERIOR DESIGN BY IEVA LEJA

Inside, the CLT panels remain visible and serve as the interior’s breathing skin. Ceilings and walls are wood, not painted to look like wood, not laminated to imitate wood. Structural integrity is elevated into a warm, tactile aesthetic.

Every switch, socket, sightline and storage line was placed with intention. Wood’s organic imperfections stands as the authentic feature of the space. The interior is calm because it has been resolved, not because it has been emptied. Warmth is structural.

INTERIOR DESIGN BY IEVA LEJA

Privacy, written in greenery

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE BY LINDA ZAĻĀ

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The site keeps the trees that were already here. The muted palette of coniferous planting, grasses, natural stone and weathering wood extends the tactile qualities of the CLT architecture into the landscape.

Boundaries are softened. Sight lines are shaped by the landscape, not by architecture alone. A small tree house set among mature trees, gives the youngest residents a place of their own. The result is a community without gates.

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