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The location of buildings on the master plan is set by context and dictated by the shape of the site, which is an almost isosceles triangle facing the narrow side to the village road. The length of the section along the road is only a little more than 10 meters, which immediately imposed serious restrictions on the landing of buildings on the general plan. The program set by the customer included a main residence with an area of more than 1000 sq. m., and a garage for 6 cars with an apartment for staff on the 2nd floor.
Logically, the garage was located as close as possible to the entrance, but its end was oriented to the main entrance, thereby forming a dynamic perspective along the long side of the building. For the comfort of residents arriving by car, a rain shelter was built along the long wall of the garage, ending with a path leading to the main house along the shortest path.
The main residence was located parallel to the long side of the site, turning it 45 degrees relative to the garage building. This arrangement was not chosen by chance: first, we solved the problem of optimal insolation and orientation to the cardinal directions; compositionally, the move turned out to be extremely successful and spectacular. The rotation of buildings relative to each other creates a sense of dynamics, movement, and when moving along a site or road creates new visual points of perception, makes architecture complex, saturated and interesting – volumes interact with each other, changing depending on the angle of view and the position of the sun. When approaching the gate from the entrance to the village, another key factor in the perception of the architecture of the complex arises – there is a gap between the buildings, giving a visual idea of the scale of the site, the main area of which is located behind the buildings, and with a different location of the house, it would seem that the buildings are not large-scale to the environment.
The compositional structure of the residence is solved in an equally interesting way – at the 1st floor level it consists of two autonomous volumes separated by a decking leading to the entrance to the garage. On the left, closer to the center of the site, the architects placed the main rooms – a living room, a kitchen, a dining room, and a corresponding set of auxiliary rooms; on the right there is a block of wellness areas with a swimming pool, sauna, hammam and a relaxation room with a billiard room. The second floor unites both blocks, being located perpendicular to the "garage-house" axis. There is a third, new axis, which also works for clearance; but, unlike the first, it is blocked by the volume of the second floor. Thus, a kind of arch is formed, in the lumen of which a tree was planted, surrounding it with a summer terrace for recreation – on the 2nd floor, a round hole was cut out for the trunk in the balcony slab, making a bright architectural device the center of the entire composition, and subsequently – a favorite vacation spot for the family of the owners of the house.
The modern aesthetics of the facades were organically combined with a pitched roof, more typical of traditional styles: the customer asked to provide canopies to protect the facades from precipitation, and visually soften modernist techniques. The small angle of the slope of the roofs is almost invisible when viewed from ground level, and the ends of the overhangs, trimmed with dark wood, on the contrary, enhance the graphics and emphasize the elegance of proportions. 3 main materials were chosen for finishing – natural travertine, wood of warm shades and hand-molded clinker bricks. It is based on a simple, but no less effective principle: the one–story pool building, and the volume of the living room were "dressed" in a travertine shell, and the perpendicular body was finished with wood and brick. This contrast emphasizes the interaction of volumes, highlighting and emphasizing the shape of each of them. "We prefer natural, natural materials," says Ekaterina, the chief architect, "they are more difficult to care for, but they look noble and age beautifully. In addition, technologies do not stand still, and, for example, there are special facade impregnations for stone, and wood is often subjected to heat treatment. This gives it strength and a surprisingly deep, saturated shade, the depth of which depends on the duration of the procedure." The materials are both contrasting and at the same time similar in tactile properties – for example, the roughness of travertine echoes the uneven surface of the clinker, and at the same time the stone has a matte surface, whereas clinker with special impurities glitters in the sun, creating the impression of a metallized surface in direct rays. Another technique that AMMG Architects used in the design of facades was the complex rhythm of wooden slats, which then merge into a single shell, then diverge, giving way to panoramic windows. This technique was further enhanced by thin, sloping steel columns that support the protruding cantilevered parts of the building; each column is turned to its own angle, which required complex engineering calculations, but provided the residence with a recognizable, characteristic appearance that clearly distinguishes it from the surrounding buildings.
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