The modular house of Ilya Samsonov's studio won a closed competition held by the PIRogovo resort near Moscow in 2017. The project of the young architect bypassed the proposals of Totan Kuzembaev and Erik van Egerat, has already been implemented and, thus, is included in a number of other architectural landmarks of the place: Alexander Brodsky, Yevgeny Ass, Nikolai Lyzlov, Vladimir Plotkin were also built in PIRogovo.
The house is one-storey, with three bedrooms, its area is a decent 185 m2, another 108 falls on the spacious terrace formed by the roof outflow and its slopes. The modules were made in a boathouse right on the territory of the resort, since they could not find a plant of a suitable level, but they were made as large as possible, since transportation was not required. The technology had to be written and tested on the go.
The house consists of a laconic volume of a residential "box" and a terrace attached to it by a corner; all together it is covered by a gable roof with a wide spread and a "cavern" that drops rather low and passes into chunky pylons. The terrace is divided into an area for parking cars - in this part, the facade is made deaf, and a recreation area, a "veranda", where the facade is most generously glazed, letting in the beauty of the surrounding forest and water inside the house.
The uncommonness, which may have become a "pass" in "PIRogovo" - in the details. At first glance, it seems that the house is more an interpretation of the traditional wooden one: a stylized quay is read, lay down, in place of a gable roof of the rafter system and a watercourse. In one of the sketches, the architects even carried a kitchen module to the veranda, very similar to a Russian stove. Which, it seems, when implemented, nevertheless transformed into a more modern grill-hearth.
But if you shift the focus a little, you will find hints of “urban” elements on the facades: pilasters, cornices and capitals are read in the alternation of narrow and wider slats, in horizontal and vertical laying. The pillars immediately become columns, the ceiling of the veranda is coffered, and the main facade is not far from the portico. The author of the project, Ilya Samsonov, says that he strove to create "metaphors of classical forms and a game of understatement."
For Ilya Samsonov's studio, the experience of creating a modular house is not the first. In 2016
the project “Russian Style” received an award at “Zodchestvo”, and the architects plan to launch a whole “store” - an online platform on which anyone can order a house and in 90-120 days he will already be standing on the site.
