This year "Roof of the House" was mastering new spaces of the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. Plates with projects were placed mainly in the foyer of the 3rd floor, the foyer of the 2nd was occupied by the installations of the participants. The “entrance” to the festival space is marked by the “triumphal arch” of the Bureau Sloboda, the plank frame of which is completely hung with multi-colored ribbons-flags. Moving further, by the window there is a "room" with green-orange furniture, sprouting long "mustaches", and a floor covered with pebbles from the famous designer Elena Teplitskaya. Nearby is a pyramid of Dmitry Bukach's stools. And the installation “10 roofs” was designed by architects Gikalo and Kuptsov specially for the anniversary of the festival. The most spectacular object was the "Polyana" of the "AB" group - real, with soil and grass. The authors put the excavated piece of turf in a metal mold of a complex configuration, placing it all on thin legs right at the level of the visitors' eyes.
The vast space of the Tretyakov foyers was still not enough for prolific designers and architects - for example, Boris Uborevich-Borovsky's installation was "cut down", leaving only one of the seven wire structures of "helicopters" reaching up to 3 floors. The tablets on the third floor are crowded and take away the viewer's attention from each other, and from this abundance and mixing of everything with everything, you simply start to get lost. A cursory examination reveals the prevalence of modernist projects, adjoining, however, with eclecticism and outright kitsch. A worthy alternative to modernism was mainly the neoclassicism of Mikhail Filippov.
Against the background of the abundance of expensive and fashionable, but mostly not very original "modern" apartment design projects, the projects of country houses looked much more interesting, demonstrating different approaches to organizing living space within the framework of modernism, from avant-garde romance to utilitarianism. Here are the "typical" houses of Vladimir Sudarikov in the spirit of Dutch modernism, which is becoming replicated on a factory scale. And, unfortunately, not marked by the jury, but a very witty "house-hole", which, together with the country house of the ARDEPO bureau, develops the current topic of "burying" the building into the ground. In the project of Roman Leonidov's "mobile home" one can recognize the paraphrase of the "mobile" tenants of the Soviet 1920s. And "Villa Panorama" bureau "A-GA" & "Design Center Ecotecture" demonstrates a new round of Corbusianism in the approach to shaping.
Apparently, the jury also felt this diversity of works, very different in terms of the level of performance. Bart Goldhorn, Levon Airapetov, Nikolai Malinin and others, who entered it, judged this time rather harshly, which is for the best. Many nominations were left without awards, but the best ones were really fished out of all this multifaceted and discordant choir. The judging was also influenced by the pro-modernist orientation of the jury - according to Nikolai Malinin, it was especially difficult for them with the "interior decoration", where only one neoclassical project managed to break through the "modernist censorship".
The awarding ceremony this time, like the whole festival, was not going as usual. First, because the anniversary. On this occasion, a surprise awaited the guests before the ceremony - a short film-joke called "dog work", in which the organizers of the festival appeared in the form of four-legged friends of different breeds and stripes, running with frantic zeal, performing the next task of the authorities. An exhibition of the winners of previous years was also timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary.
Secondly, this year “Roof of a House” became a part of the Architecture Biennale. In this regard, she moved to the Crimean shaft, and the curator Bart Goldhorn was invited as the chairman of the jury. The festival, it should be noted, for all its 10 years did nothing but answer the question "how to live", and therefore it fit into the theme of the current Biennale quite organically, which cannot be said about its neighbor - the exhibition of the General Plan of Moscow on the floor below. Bart Goldhorn liked the interiors presented for the competition, but rather as a kind of good level in general, from which, meanwhile, not a single interior work deserved first place and this is very symptomatic. Everything is smooth and expensive, and there is no one who, in Goldhorn's words, looks "brand new."
Perhaps for this reason, one object stood out brightly from all, and it was noted in completely different nominations - both "detail", and "residential building", and "residential interior", and "decoration". This is the "Friendhouse" hotel of Yuri Ryntovt (Kharkov), which was awarded the Grand Prix by the jury. I would like to call it "hotel-kolobok" for its bizarre shapes, reminiscent of dough buns with holes from the fingers, which the author replaced ordinary pylons with. Massive floor boards "press through" the dough, which is why it settles and seems to spring. The motive is repeated in the decoration of the walls of individual rooms, with holes-windows, and in the interior, where mushroom-shaped columns are molded from the same "dough", growing into the ceiling. Such a lively uneven texture of the wall with a handcrafted feel echoes Ukrainian huts-huts, which makes the hotel with the foreign name "Friendhouse" look like a Ukrainian farm, but not seriously, but somewhat ironically.
The first place for the “completed residential building” was awarded to Villa Panorama by the bureau A-GA & Design Center Ecotecture, which brings to mind the buildings of Le Corbusier thanks to the perfectly identified form and pure white color. Together with the authors, Nikolai Malinin was delighted with the award, since he liked this object long before the competition, and therefore he published it in the last issue of his magazine "Made in Future". There were disagreements with the nomination "project-idea of a country house" for the award of the 1st place, since the members of the jury rightly decided to distinguish between two different concepts of "idea" and "project". Therefore, for the "idea" the 1st place was given to the team of the bureau "AB", and as the "project" they noted a private dwelling house in the village of Malakhovka, workshop "Atrium". The exterior "deconstructivist mess" of this house actually has a clear structure - it is a suite of rooms, spiraling like a shell. Other associations arise, for example, scales, slate, the famous Sydney Opera. The engineering project is interesting for the system of the so-called "impedance-free glazing".
The jury found the car of Vera and Alexey Lobanov from Bureau Sloboda as the best "interior detail". By the way, he was the only object presented at the exhibition in the material, and not only in photographs. The bolide, or a large meteor of a parabolic shape, formed by a burning fiery "tail", liked the authors for its streamlining, and they repeated it many times in various interior details, from upholstered furniture to lamps.
Among the many projects that received awards, the house in the Benelux settlement of ARDEPO bureau deserves special mention, which received 2nd place in the nomination "project-idea of a country house", because, firstly, it attracts by the manner of presentation of the material, very restrained, almost minimalist, and at the same time sensible. And there are only two such projects against total and obsessive abundance - another is the "mobile architecture" of Roman Leonidov, also clearly and graphically presented on a white background. And secondly, this object combines an ecological approach, since it is almost half dug into the ground, with a Suprematist plane, which is clearly visible when looking at the object from above. Bart Goldhorn commended this project "for a very clever solution with such a good tradition as the houses of Frank Lloyd Wright."
Bart Goldhorn, by the way, rightly noted that the situation with the interior and a private house in Russia is much more attractive than with social housing, which is demonstrated by the current Biennale, and explained why: “It was from the interior in Russia that the renovation of housing began, in this area high-quality work. Interior has become the most important contribution of Russian architecture to the global architectural debate thanks to the emergence of such a concept as free planning. Private houses are already showing the next step towards improving the quality of housing in Russia. " And what after an individual house? Mass housing, of course, which Bart Goldhorn is passionate about. So "The Roof of a House" in this context can be considered as a beautiful prologue to a book about good residential architecture that we have not yet written.
Below is a complete list of awardees:
The Grand Prix
Hotel "Friendhouse" Yuriy Ryntovt (Kharkiv)
1st place
In the category "Interior Detail"
- "Bolide". Vera and Alexey Lobanov, Bureau Sloboda.
In the category "Interior decoration"
- Apartment "Gintaras". Ivan Shalmin
In the nomination "Project-idea of a country house"
- Project of a country house. Andrey Savin, Mikhail Labazov, Andrey Cheltsov. Architectural bureau "A-B"
- Private residential building in the village of Malakhovka. Anton Nadtochy, Vera Butko, Ekaterina Golovanova, Alexey Kalashnikov. Architectural workshop "Atrium".
In the category "Completed residential building"
- "Villa Panorama". Rustam Kerimov, Vladimir Gumankov, Elena Manuilova. Architectural Bureau "A-GA" & "Design Center Ecotecture"
In the category "Public interior"
- Recreational space of the multifunctional complex "Business House Znamenka". Oleg Popov, Ksenia Skorokhod, Ivan Svirin, Vita Danilova, Maria Svirina. Architectural workshop "Popov and Architects".
Special Prize of the Moskomarkhitektura in the nomination "Project-Idea of a Country House"
- A series of prefabricated houses. Vladimir Sudarikov. Architectural Workshop 56
2nd place
In the category "Interior decoration"
- Apartment in Moscow 150 sq.m. Marina Fillipova, Leila Ulukhanova. D'Studio Style.
In the nomination "Project-idea of a country house"
- Project of a country house in the village of Benelux. Pavel Abramov, Alexey Volkov. ARDEPO Architectural Bureau.
In the category "Completed residential building"
- House in Kratovo. Mikhail Fillipov, Workshop of Mikhail Fillipov.
In the category "Residential Interior"
- apartment "Vorobyovy Gory". Boris Uborevich-Borovsky, Daria Osipova. Architectural bureau "Uborevich Design"
- studio apartment in Moscow. Andrey and Maria Gorozhankin
In the category "Public interior"
- Yandex office in St. Petersburg. Petr Zaitsev, Arseny Borisenko. Architectural bureau "za bor"
- Le Present boutique in Spain. Alexey Kozyr, Ilya Babak, Alexander Konstantinov, Maria Shustrova. Architectural workshop of Alexey Kozyr
3rd place
In the category "Residential Interior"
- "Home Cinema". Dmitry Ovcharov, Boris Voskoboinikov. Studio "Nefaresearch".
Laureate title:
In the category "Interior Detail"
- Table for negotiations. Architectural bureau "Rudakov and Architects".
In the nomination "Project-idea of a country house"
- Mobile architecture. Roman Leonidov. Roman Leonidov Architectural Bureau
- "Tokyo House". Sergey Nasedkin. Architectural bureau ARCH.625
"Realized residential building"
- "117 feet". Konstantin Larin
- "Skat house" on the Klyazminskoye reservoir. Totan Kuzembaev, Sergey Savanets, Maria Salina. Architectural workshop of Totan Kuzembaev.
- "House above the forest". Anna Shchetinina. Architectural bureau "Terra"
In the category "Residential Interior"
- Apartments. Gabellini & Sheppard (New York)
- "Hotel-apartment". Victor Freidenberg
In the category "Public interior"
- The flagship office of Symmetron. Electronic components . Dmitry Melitonyan
