Location: Saka, Latvia Architects: NRJA (Uldis Luksevics) Client: Aldas Valks www.livedifferent.eu General Constructor: RBS Skals Object: 10 weekend houses Size: 10x 107 sqm2 Year: 2006  On the coast of the Baltic Sea in Latvia in a little-inhabited place, 10 modern weekend houses with the name of Makonu brivdienas ( holidays of clouds ) were built. 200 km from the capital of Latvia, Riga, 5 km from the yacht port Pavilosta, 300 m from a steep coast of the Baltic Sea. These houses are on concrete pillars, with a heated concrete floor, floor-to-ceiling windows, terraces being situated at 3 sides of the house, and wooden shutters – the building can be locked completely, having closed all its shutters and having transformed it into a wooden box. The houses have common communications, tennis and beach volleyball areas, a fish pond. A distinctive sign of each of the buildings is a 6x4m “sail” with images covering entries. The author of the images – artist Ilmārs Blumbergs – created visions based on the theme of the Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner (Richard Wagner DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN). It is a cycle consisting of 4 operas – Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, which the Latvian National Opera is to put on the stage with the participation of Bergen International Festival Festspillene. In that way the modern architecture is united with the modern open-air art far from vanity – in the territory where on the average 3 persons per km2 lives.