For the 2004 competition project, Yuri Vissarionov came up with a transforming house that could be transported and installed in different places. When assembled, the house looks like a car trailer, a compact rigid "box", which, upon arrival at the prepared site, should unfold, overgrowing with volumes of additional rooms. A kind of self-opening futuro tent, stuffed with all kinds of benefits of civilization. When installed, the house looks like a cluster of fantastic alien forms, vibrant and distinctly unconventional. And in the process of unfolding and "landing in place" it would resemble the transformation of biological beings - a beetle spreading its wings, or some kind of unusual fish.
For the sake of fairness, it should be noted that the transforming house was supposed to be installed not at any place, but still on the site with supplied communications. As conceived by the authors, he could only carry some engineering systems with him.
This spectacular project did not participate in the competition, but attracted the attention of customers. His first paraphrase was a villa in Turkey, equipped with rigid ribbed wings, reminiscent of insect wings or the fins of a "flying fish". The second is the continuation of the villa - a guest house, which should be built on the territory of the villa, down the slope near the terrace of the tennis court.
The third was the house in Mytishchi, shown this spring at the exhibition "Under the Roof of a House …".
The idea of a large self-unpacking house, and even a large one, equipped with everything necessary for comfort - should be considered futuristic and fantastic for the time being. But her children “settled on the ground”, without being overloaded with “smart houses” technology, inherit biomorphic forms from the competitive prototype project. Which bring to mind both the closest, neo-modernist, and older analogies: houses of the early XX century in the style of "modern", especially the works of Gaudí. They diligently avoid straight (and even sharp) corners, rectangular windows, and of the horizontal planes, only the most necessary ones are present here - floor surfaces.
Guest house in Turkey, project 2009
The guest house - an addition to the main building - inherits the forms of its neighbor, but under its shadow it looks more modest, laconic. The house offers accommodation for two families - partners in tennis and recreation in a picturesque mountainous area. Autonomous living of families is ensured by the division of apartments by floors. The lower apartment has an adjacent territory with an exit from the living room and bedroom, as well as a cozy courtyard between the house and the stone wall of the adjacent plot. At the same time, the upper dwelling is provided with a spacious two-level terrace (including an observation deck on its own roof).
Translucent glass canopies impart lightness to the house, and the wavy mosaic decoration of the facades seems to flow from the surrounding relief.
House in Mytishchi, project 2009
The project of a house in Mytishchi, which is supposed to be built on the banks of the Klyazma, inherits from the competitive project the planning scheme: the core of a two-story living room, plastered with curved volumes of bedrooms, like petals. Curved white walls are cut through by rounded windows: this creates a strong association with a hobbit house. Which is not bad, because it gives the forms without corners the necessary amount of comfort. One of the petals is also double-height, it is a glass atrium with a giant curved panoramic window. It takes us back from fairy tales to modern times. And from the Turkish villa, the house got significant roofs and an abundance of balconies.
Interestingly, the Mytishchi house combines the biomorphism of defiantly curved forms with a certain restraint of the general color and even the softness of the outlines. What makes it different from a Turkish villa. There, under the bright sun, everything was more colorful (colorful mosaics were achieved), and the lines of the roofs were sharper, more bony, perhaps more energetic than here. The restraint of the Moscow region color seemed to have left its mark on the futuristic forms: the windows became rounded, the roofs - oval, the visors received bunches of thin supports, somewhat reminiscent of the Central Russian forest thickets.
So although the house cannot yet be moved from place to place, it does not matter - you can perfectly transfer the architectural theme. Which, in the process of moving, is significantly transformed, responding to the natural environment, and therefore - adapting to the context. After all, we must admit that, despite the unfamiliarity of the forms, diligently avoiding everything traditional, the Mytishchi house, in fact, turns out to be quite near Moscow.
It is curious to see how a fantastic project finds a completely "earthly" embodiment for itself. And it is even more interesting that there are customers who are attracted by the extravagance of biological and futuristic architecture so much that they want to build such houses for themselves.
