The new villa is supposed to serve as a guest house, which is why its second name is an art hotel. However, if this is a hotel, then “for our own people” - in the main house, the villa, built according to the project of Yuri Vissarionov and his colleagues a couple of years ago, there are quite a lot of guests; for those who want to stay for a few days, a new wing is intended. The art prefix emphasizes its special design status - the guest house was commissioned and designed as a chamber gallery of contemporary art, exhibits of which will be paintings, sculptures, furniture items used in the interior, and even its decoration itself.
Relative to the main house, the villa will be located slightly lower on the slope - the architects skillfully use the existing relief in order to visually isolate the buildings from each other and thereby make their close proximity as comfortable as possible for absolutely all residents. Together with the original canopy of the summer theater and the villa under construction, the main house forms a kind of triangle, the main peak of which is.
The villa has a pronounced cylindrical shape: the oval bases of the floors are set on a powerful base, lined with broken stones and boulders. Almost all rooms of the house have panoramic glazing, which creates the feeling that another cylinder, completely glazed, is passed through the volume. It ends with an open trapezium-shaped observation deck with rounded corners. The entrance to the guest house is decorated with a wall, as if "peeled off" from the basement and likening the entrance area to a kind of funnel.
In total, the house will house two apartments: on the first floor there is a hall, two bedrooms and a living room with a private exit to the patio, on the second there is a hall, a bedroom, a living room and a spacious two-level terrace with an observation deck on a flat roof. A wine cellar is located in the basement. In the design of the interiors of the guest house, the architects are also faithful to biomorphism, however, within the boundaries of individual premises, it acquires much more radical, frankly futuristic features. So, the walls of the rooms are made of polymer concrete and decorated with colored lighting. From the floor and walls here and there unexpectedly "grow", as if the necessary pieces of furniture are being melted right before our eyes. Lamps are designed in the form of stalactites hanging from the ceiling, shelves and racks are interpreted as crater-shaped niches recessed into the walls. The feeling of being in a space station is enhanced by porthole windows and the same rounded shape of doorways, more reminiscent of partitions between compartments in starships.
Of course, this is not the first time plastic concrete has been used in the interior, but public areas have traditionally been considered the main area of its application. The architects of PTAM Vissarionova boldly break stereotypes, showing that this material is able to create a truly unusual, memorable interior, devoid of any pretentiousness and deliberate high cost.
The neighboring summer cinema is also perceived as a kind of continuation of the guest house's atmosphere. It seems that its stands are made of white solidified lava, and a light translucent canopy in the form of a paraglider wing makes this structure similar to the “webbed” canopies-wings of the main house, with which the cinema is connected by a winding path. By the way, the canopy-wing can change the angle of inclination depending on the location of the sun.
Yuri Vissarionov is an inspired and rare supporter of biomorphism for modern Russian architecture. This expressive style does not always take root in big cities, but it is very organic for resort buildings, and a villa in Turkey is the perfect confirmation of this. The architect, with undisguised pleasure, submits his buildings to the whims of the seaside relief, plays with the shapes and plastics of open terraces and canopies, admires the contrasting shadows that they cast on the light surfaces of the floor and walls. What might seem redundant and futuristic in a metropolis, against the backdrop of the mountains and the sea, is perceived as an ideal metaphor for a carefree vacation on the Mediterranean coast.
