Private villa of 500 m2 built on the Black Sea coast in the Khostinsky district of the city of Sochi. On the upper floor, which hangs like a console above the lower one, around an elongated hallway is a study, three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Each bedroom has its own dressing room, and the master's bathroom even has a panoramic view.
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zooming 1/5 Villa-BG_019. Site plan © Basis Group
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zooming 2/5 Villa-BG_019. Plan © Basis Group
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zooming 3/5 Villa-BG_019. Section © Basis Group
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zooming 4/5 Villa-BG_019. Top tier plan © Basis Group
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zooming 5/5 Villa-BG_019. Nodes © Basis Group
The entrance to the house is from above, there is also a covered courtyard-parking enclosed on all sides by a light structure of vertical wooden slats. They protect the yard from overheating and prying eyes, but do not obstruct the view from the side of the yard.
Two staircases lead to the lower floor of the house at once: an internal and an external one. Here we will find a single dining and living room kitchen area on the south side and a block of service rooms on the east side. The pool terrace is located on the same level as the living room and is separated from it only by a thin sliding translucent structure. If desired, the entire lower floor of the house is transformed into a single space without dividing into street and indoor areas, which is convenient for holding summer parties. On the east side, a bathhouse, completely deepened into the slope, and a staircase inscribed in the relief along the end wall of the pool, which leads to the greened adjacent territory below the slope, are connected to the terrace. Above, the terrace is covered with a second floor console, which plays the role of a visor and protects the recreation area by the pool from the scorching sun.
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zooming 1/7 Villa-BG_019 Photo © Vlad Feoktistov
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zooming 2/7 Villa-BG_019 Photo © Vlad Feoktistov
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zooming 3/7 Villa-BG_019 Photo © Vlad Feoktistov
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zooming 4/7 Villa-BG_019 Photo © Vlad Feoktistov
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zooming 5/7 Villa-BG_019 Photo © Vlad Feoktistov
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zooming 6/7 Villa-BG_019 Photo © Vlad Feoktistov
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zooming 7/7 Villa-BG_019 Photo © Vlad Feoktistov
There is everything you need for a southern holiday: a swimming pool with a view edge, a wooden floor of the terrace and a massive canopy above it, which protects well from the midday sun. Natural materials: stone, wood, white plaster. Stained glass windows with sea views. But much more important is the laconicism of the modern form, strict geometry, angles and contrasts. This is a dual decision: on the one hand, it is competent and modern, on the other hand, it is scary to imagine how many more similar villas have already been built in the world. She seemed to have left the pages of the magazine: albeit not literally, but the solution is definitely not unique and for ninety years it has not been new. It is like an office suit - a white shirt, a designer tie, black, and in our times the dark blue color of the fabric is better. And just as expensive, take at least the neat architectural concrete of the lower floor. In which film it was said: - This Christmas tree was made by the designer? - Yes. - It can be seen.
Noble, precise correctness. But sterile. This was reflected in the numbered name: 019, not just nineteen, but with a zero at the beginning, as if another 980 "slots" are expected, of other similar projects. In principle, numbering with numbers is characteristic of abstract paintings, how they differ, by the way, from later surrealism and conceptualism. Such villas are an analogue of abstract art, already in the 1930s - glamorous comme il faut.
But. If the villa appeared in France or, say, Israel, it would be commonplace. But on the Sochi slope, amid the colorful resort buildings of recent decades, gables, arches and balconies, completed and unfinished, all this dense chaos, the purity of forms, perhaps, is not at all redundant. Rather, she takes on the role of an agitator and promoter of other aesthetic values.
