The village is located on Pyatnitskoe highway, only six kilometers from Moscow, so the lifestyle of its future inhabitants is difficult to define as a country or country-house, it remains urban, but with the addition of options that are not inherent in our city. This interpretation made it possible for the architects to develop the general style of the village in a democratic way, which in the language of developers and realtors is called the European standard.
However, there is nothing "standard" in the project; on the contrary, it is the author's project, where everything is subordinated to a common artistic and logical system. One of the architects of the project, Anastasia Khomyakova, says that before the start of work, a set of requirements for the future village was formulated for her group. This set mainly concerns the impressions and sensations of “space in itself”, which is any village in its modern sense; it is clear that the set of technical requirements was rigidly defined together with the customer. So, the village should have stylistic integrity, but not be monotonous, it should be modern and at the same time calm, balanced, and besides, it should become an organic part of the landscape on which it is located, dissolve in the natural surroundings of the Moscow region. That is why, already when working on the master plan, the authors tried to match it as much as possible with the features of the site: the relief drops quite significantly towards the highway, and the village received a fan-shaped layout, where chord streets repeat the horizontal slope, and radial lanes, without penetrating the massif through and through, are connected by separate segments streets between themselves. The lanes are intended only for pedestrians, all streets are one-way, traffic mainly occurs along the perimeter of the main part of the territory, outside of which only a small part of the sites and infrastructure remain, including children's and sports grounds, shopping and entertainment centers. The entrance zone is designed as a community center of the village, there is a small park here.
Plots in the range from 12 to 20 acres are planned taking into account the possibility of combining them. It was important for the authors of the project to design the houses in such a way that they were commensurate with the plot, but it was even more essential for them to give the houses a sense of solidity, timeless reliability, so that they would be perceived as family nests built for many generations. Therefore, with a modern laconic architectural language, the most traditional building material was chosen - brick.
The houses were designed in groups, each based on its own module: a module with a built-in garage; module with an attached garage; a module designed for a family of several generations. A total of 8 types of houses have been designed. All of them are two-storey, do not have basements and were originally conceived with flat roofs, but at some point in the work on the project, the customer asked to make pitched roofs. This decision was dictated by the results of market research - indeed, the family house for most of our fellow citizens is imagined with a pitched roof; there is a certain stereotype of patriarchy in this, but it is completely unnecessary to fight against it. Almost all houses are built according to the principle of a complex multi-level composition, it is clear that the more opportunities for this, the larger the area of the house itself. But even for houses with an area close to 200 sq. meters found their own way - they are solved with the use of a contrasting combination of a blank wall array and an extensive opening. All houses are equipped with terraces, balconies and patios, which from the very beginning implies the possibility of completing and increasing the area of any of them. The proportional structure and composition of horizontal volumes of buildings, coupled with dark brick walls, gives rise to the memory of the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, although the authors say that they started from the Scandinavian school and the works of Alvar Aalto. In what they are really close to Aalto, it is in the desire for the environmental friendliness of their architecture, the desire to combine it with the landscape of the site, which is not a given here, but is designed simultaneously with the buildings and, in turn, is thought of as a second layer of architecture, another shell that gives shelter and fencing off from the outside world. There is also a third shell - a fence familiar to everyone around each site, brick, two meters high. But so that the facades of the houses can be seen from the street, and this is necessary for the overall positive feeling of being in the village - not as in a hostile camp, but as among good neighbors - the front of the fences will be transparent, made of wrought metal.
In the process of working on private houses, the customer decided to give part of the territory of the village for low-rise apartment buildings, which was dictated by the same market research. So on the plan, instead of an array of plots along the road leading to Otradnenskoye, a building of four two-section three-storey apartment buildings appeared. The area of apartments in them ranges from 50 to 100 square meters, and most of them are one-room, and of course, as in the case of plots, the possibility of combining them is provided. In the basements of houses, as is customary in Europe, each apartment will have its own storage room. An abundance of loggias, both glazed and open, pitched roofs visually unite the apartment buildings with private houses on the plots. For future residents of the apartments, their own playground and parking have been designed, which will become an additional buffer zone between the residential area and the road.
