It may be silly to start a conversation about a house from a fence - but looking at this fence, you are amazed - is it possible that the client's mentality is changing and the openness characteristic of modern European and American architecture will take root in our country. Because it is much easier to convince the customer that the house does not need classic capitals or granite decoration than that the house does not have to be a fortress with seven bolts. Of course, the relief of the site, located below the road level, in a small ravine, played a role here. That is, if the fence had been built up, the courtyard would have found itself corny in a rather dark "crater".
Due to the landscape conditions, the house is deepened in relation to the roadway and from the outside it looks like two-storey, although in reality it has 3 floors. The main entrance leads directly to the second floor. The house turned out to be quite rich in content: there is a garage for 4 cars, and a real winter garden with everything you need to keep tropical plants, and 2 living rooms according to the Panakomov tradition, and a large relaxation room by the pool, and the staircase includes a glass elevator.
This extended program had a curious effect on the configuration of the plan - the rectangular "box" seems to be bursting, which is why it has additional bulges and bends. All glass, they seem to be breakthroughs not only in the plastic of the house, but also in the mentality of the client. True, the architects say that they simply wanted to create a more romantic image.
However, the project cannot be denied romance - just look at the shape of the roof, the slopes of which resemble the wings of an ivy gull. They become the logical completion of the vertical gradation of the nature of the spaces, which turned out to be the opposite of their purpose. I would call it a take-off poem. So, for example, the first floor with a pool and a garden, intended for relaxation, is more like a cave in terms of the degree of closure. Although this tier is located on the ground and not underground, it still does not lose its basement character - the long wall of the pool is deaf, the windows of the guest rooms are built outside with a stone wall, ornamented with small loopholes. Only the garden is glazed as much as possible - the plants strive for the sun and merge with the surrounding nature, which is why the room acquires a three-height height. The second floor looks quite neutral relative to the previous one. The bedrooms of the third, most private level, densely equipped with views of the edge because of the shape of the roof, unexpectedly turn out to be the most open. There is a feeling that they could grow upward indefinitely, following the flight of these wings.
