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Competition 2nd Price, 2003
A House outside the city, Plot 600m2
Design: Olga Aleksakova, Andreas Huhn, Alexander Sverdlov
Client: Union of Architects of Russia

The new type of estate combines in itself the elegance of a modernist villa, the laisse-fair of a datcha and the landscape setting of an estate. The house has two levels. The shared zone on the ground floor extends over the whole plot and consists of open landscape rooms and closed (covered) house rooms. Different landscape rooms can either be maintained and gardened or left in their natural beauty depending on a the dwellers wish. Above it there is a floating sleeping box with four bedrooms, each one of them a separate dwelling, providing for isolation and intimacy.