Paraboloid architect Firsova

A two-storey house with an area of ​​64.2 m2, located on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, successfully fit into the environment.

Herbal roof left by uneven ends log logs, stone trumpet, the giant oven, standing bye, - in all the power reflected and the power of the pristine nature

At the first look at the living room there is a feeling of reliability and comfort, born from a combination of stone and wood

In winter, the rays of the Sun permeate the living room, giving the feeling of heat and some special festive mood

In this house with his fireplace from huge boulders, with powerful logs of rafters, unfolding above the head, like the cooler of the wing, the possibility of the New Year's miracle is especially clear, and Santa Claus, it seems, already outside the door ...

Not immediately and guess that this is not part of the stove, but a gas stove, built into the regiment of the fireplace. Nearby there is a sink bowl, and at the bottom there is a comfortable storage space for firewood

Children's compact and spacious as a ship cabin. It serves as a bedroom and office. Wet is a great merit of transformable furniture

The experience of Yakhtsman helped the architect to post on a small kitchen area everything is necessary for the dacha life. For plates and sinks found a very unusual place

In the sauna area, the fireplace is decorated with brick masonry. Here used grungy brick of different shades. From this arch looks very old

The semicircular niche shower is adjacent to the locker room and the sauna. The glass door of this room is designed to destroy the feeling of gris

The railway railing is based on a huge boulder. He lies here from the glacial period

Part of the second giant boulder was right in the room. This is the most unusual room in the house.

Diagram of the device of roofing "cake" "green" roof

The wall of the house rests on a huge, overgrown with moss stone, part of which is inside the cold room

The terrace is protected from the northern winds of the walls of the house. On it, opposite the entrance door, stands a century pine

This building for collecting rainwater is quite witty. Inside the usual plastic barrel with a crane at the bottom

From this side, the house is completely hiding under the "wing" of herbal roof. As if folded from the boulders of the water branch, another capacity for the collection of rainwater

Floor plan

Plan of the second floor

The house built by the architect for himself is not just housing. This is a kind of self-portrait. Let me know how in the mirror reflects the creative aspirations of the master, its attitude to space and time, ideas about comfort are, in fact, its inner world.

The architect Igor Firsov chose a plot for his home near Primorsk, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. From St. Petersburg, this place is separated by 140 kilometers, from the coastal line, a little more than a hundred meters. Transparent air, ship pines, gray boulders. Such a landscape is called the Northern. He will be recognized by the abundance of granite and a special color gammy-pearl, as if sweated pale freshness. It is worth looking, and he will surprise the richness of shades: lilac, pink, greenish tones of stone, casting blue water, touched by the Red Rod Barrels ...

It is not surprising that the architect wanted to fit the house into this medium as unnoter as possible without having chucking the excess tree, without shifting the boulder. This task has determined the choice of materials, and the image of the construction, and its design.

It seems that the house-squat, "overgrown" - formed here himself. He seemed to appear from a stone and a tree as from a peculiar mushroom and now looks at the world unexpectedly clear windows. Located from thick (250-400mm), manually dyed logs relies on a monolithic ribbon foundation lined with boulders. It's a stone collected on the shore of the bay, the terrace was framed, in the middle of a wooden flooring of which huge pine is treated. Anemual "fluid" roof is covered with a turden, because of which the construction of some points is similar to the natural hill. Obvious at first glance, the irregular roof is deceptive. Its curved form is created from straight rafters laid on beveled walls like a three-dimensional fan. The basis of this form is a hyperbolic paraboloid, well-known mathematicians and relatively simple in design. Janis Xenakis, the architect and the musician, believed that the analogue of this figure was an analogue of the glide-receiving, consisting of a sliding transition, gradually flowing one note to another.

This is how the hyperbolic paraboloid of Igor Firsov in the design of the house sounds. Yes, and the transition, the most "flowing" of the surrounding landscape in the roof, looks emphasized natural, almost imperceptible. Especially since the roof, as on earth, the grass and strawberries grow, are stones (boulders form the roof around the perimeter, the two-meter tube of the fireplace is also composed of them). So, imperceptibly "flow" to the roof of caring care for the turret. On it, too, you need to make grass, pull the weeds and collect the fallen foliage and chew.

Interesting design windows overlooking the bay. The deaf windows are supplemented with side swivel framugs - "shutters", which ensure the ventilation of the exact professional calculation and the patriarchal Power of the image are generally characteristic of this house. Everything in it is functionally justified, and at the same time extremely expressive. Take, for example, a log cabin. It is very practical: it saves the cool in the summer and, unlike the stone house, quickly heats up in winter (which is important, since the architect has built for himself not permanent housing, but the cottage, where in the cold season was going to come only for the weekend). Wheel in the way the tree is better than other materials fit into a slice of nature not touched by civilization. To enhance the log of a log log, outside the brown impregnation of Valtti Color Satin from Tikkurila and, thus close by color to the overall range of the landscape.

Different in form and size, asymmetrically located windows are made by special order. Those that go to the terrace and the bay, unexpectedly great, and those that look out from under the roof on other walls, on the contrary, are quite miniature.

Expressive and well thought out layout at home. It is designed for a family of four people two adults and two children. Inclosed house is a rectangle. Small "Songs" were attached to the rustling (where the hallway and the bathroom are located) and an additional cold room. Although the size of the house is small (the total area is slightly more than 60m2), there are two isolated bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, as well as a small living room on a mezzanine over the fireplace. There is a sauna with a shower and washbasin. All rooms are extremely compact and resemble shipping cabins rather than the rooms of the country house. For the project is based on extremely respectful, economical attitude towards space (it seems, the author simply does not want to take extra meters from nature).

The compositional and semantic center of the building is undoubtedly a huge fireplace form structure lined with untreated granite. Well drilled, it gives it warm through the warm boulders (even the concave wall of the shower becomes warm). The on-cold heat source on cold days serve as ceramic tiled floors with electric heating, equipped in the hallway, in the kitchen, in the shower and in the toilet.

Chair of device fireplace

1. Foreign furnace

2. Shelf with stove and washing

3. Shower

4. Stove-Kamenka in the sauna

5. Chimneys

6. Brick "Body" fireplace

Usually, houses were settled on the furnace (fireplace). But, probably, none of them have been provided with such luxurious apartments, includes not only the flue block. From this volume is fitted part of the kitchen (plate and washing), niches are embedded for shower and stove in the sauna. The asset asset arranged a small staircase with granite steps and boulders (flesh from the fireplace flesh!), Leading to the second level, where directly over the fireplace or even on the fireplace (almost like in a Russian oven) there is a small bedroom.

The most spacious room at home - living room, it is a fireplace and dining room. Here, wooden walls and floors have retained a natural color, and the powerful logs of the rafter structures are banging above the head. If you get up at a specific point, it seems that they diverge fan. A large window is drawn strictly to the west, on the bay. Through this opening, sea sunsets enter the house, staining the logs in the most unexpected colors - from amber to raspberry. Cool-lilac granite echoes the upholstery of furniture. Aiz of the contrast of cold boulders and warm wood is born a special tension that gives the room charm of myth.

The burned sofa, chairs, a large table and folding chairs, allowing to form space depending on the situation. Complement the picture of wicker lampshades from rattan. Wokna created a work area: a comfortable table, replacing the windowsill, bookshelves. Amalny cuisine visually continues this line. A small refrigerator and drying for the dishes are at the door. The locker and the table occupy a place in the corner, next to the stone ladder. The kitchen shelf with a stove and sink is inscribed in the body of the fireplace. The kitchen illuminates frankly old-fashioned and from particularly cozy lanterns.

Parental bedroom furnishings are extremely concise, the dynamics creates a "bending" ceiling plane and a clear rhythm, formed by horizontals of powerful logs, unlike the kitchen and living room, do not adjoin the fireplace. But enough for a few hours to hold the doors of the rooms open, and they warm up. Adly winter nights here is provided for additional heating with electroconvectors. The first bedroom (parental room) is solved quite simply. There was a place for a double bed, a small chest and a wardrobe equipped with a wicked door-accordion. The second room has almost adult children is not so restrained. A special bunk design created in it provides combining the functions of the bedroom, a small living room and a cabinet. Upstairs, the sofa is located at the bottom (on which you can also sleep if you decompose). A hide is equipped with a folding table.

Built-in furniture, helping to save space, generally plays in the architect's house not the last role. A bunk bed in nursery, spacious cabinets, a window sill in the living room, all this is done by carpenters manually and everything is extremely compact. Golden tones of light wood visually facilitate and increase the premises, and doors-blinds on the cabinets enhance this effect.

And finally, the "stone" room. This cold room with a separate entrance from the street was originally created for economic needs, but gradually became one of the most significant in the house. Winteriere is dominated by a huge boulder. It can be used as a table, and another on it, as a foundation, is based on one of the walls. Two other walls are entirely composed of granite. Cool stone, warm tree, bay outside the window - all together tells the room a special atmosphere of contemplation and peaceful power.

The same power emit numerous stone objects that settled on the site. The list is headed by a four-meter street oven lined with large boulders. It is equipped with a firing, built-in niche for drying drying and a cutting shelf. She has all the devices for the preparation of kebabs and barbecue. In the form, the furnace is very tectonic, it was not easy to create it because of the complexity of working with the diverse elements of the facing. It seems even that it is glued out of clay and stone with the hands of a giant.

Another colorful object is a huge stone barrel for collecting water from the roof. The size of the barrel is such that the wishing to look inside has to climb the special stone stairs. However, it is easy to get water from it easily, just to open the crane arranged in a half-meter from the ground.

Aw of the lowest, diametrically opposite corner of the roof created a stone water-painted element of improvement. Here, as in the barrel, the rainwater flows. It does not take place due to the mounted plastic reservoir. Powerful masonry on the contour of the reservoir is enliven enclosures of alpine flower beds. No less impressive looks input group, stone gates and a lamppost, resembling an ancient lighthouse. Attentively, at night, on the side of the bay, his light visible between the trees can serve as a guide for a boat or yacht, returning home on the already ridiculous coast, where, at the request of the host architect, the wild forest "broke", giving a place to new artifacts, and where nature is grateful He took the creation of human hands, concluding him in the arms of his pristine silence and harmony.

The enlarged calculation of the value of the construction of the Moscow construction company house with a total area of ​​64.2m2, similar to the presented

Name of works	Units. change	Number of	Price, $	Cost, $
Foundation work
Takes up axes, layout, development and recess	m3.	8.6.	eighteen	155.
Device of a chicken base	m2.	70.	eight	560.
Construction of tape foundations, R / B Plates (Fireplace)	m3.	6.8.	60.	408.
Caution lateral isolation	m2.	35.	2.8.	98.
TOTAL	1221.
Applied materials on the section
Concrete heavy	m3.	6.8.	62.	422.
Crushed stone granite, sand	m3.	five	28.	140.
Bituminous polymer mastic	kg	35.	2.8.	98.
Rental of steel, fittings, knitting wire	T.	0,3.	390.	117.
TOTAL	777.
WALLS
Cutting walls from timber	m3.	26.	95.	2470.
Heated walls for chopped walls	m2.	65.	nine	585.
TOTAL	3055.
Applied materials on the section
Lumber (Round Forest, Edged Board)	m3.	26.	120.	3120.
Other materials	-	one	180.	180.
TOTAL	3300.
Roofing device
Installation of the rafter design	m2.	86.	12	1032.
Reinforcement of the coating metal mesh	m2.	86.	2.	172.
The device of the underlying layers of clay	m2.	86.	2.	172.
Coating device (soil, derm)	m2.	86.	7.	602.
TOTAL	1978.
Applied materials on the section
Sawn timber	m3.	4.6	120.	552.
Waterproofing "TechnoElast"	m2.	86.	2.7	233.
Ceramzit	kg	1700.	0.06.	102.
Geotextile "Dornit"	m2.	96.	1,4.	135.
TOTAL	1022.
Warm outline
Insulation of coatings and overlaps insulation	m2.	130.	2.	260.
Filling opening windows and door blocks	m2.	eighteen	35.	630.
TOTAL	890.
Applied materials on the section
Styrofoam	m2.	130.	2.6	1196.
Wooden window blocks (two-chamber glass)	m2.	6.	180.	1080.
Door units, fittings and other material	PC.	6.	-	730.
TOTAL	3006.
Engineering systems
Autonomous Water Supply Device (Well)	set	-	-	1900.
Installation of the sewer system (septic)	set	-	-	2670.
Device fireplace	set	-	-	3200.
Electric installation work	set	-	-	1600.
Plumbing work	set	-	-	1300.
TOTAL	10670.
Applied materials on the section
SETTING (Rings, lids w / b, hatch cast iron, etc.)	set	-	-	2340.
Cassette fireplace	set	-	-	1900.
Kastor sauna oven	set	-	-	960.
Plumbing and electrical equipment	set	-	-	2860.
TOTAL	8060.
FINISHING WORK
Device board coatings	m2.	65.	10	650.
Facing surfaces with ceramic tiles	m2.	21.	sixteen	336.
Stitching ceilkov	m2.	65.	12	780.
Painting surface treatment	m2.	730.	five	3650.
TOTAL	5416.
Applied materials on the section
Poland Boards (Pine)	m2.	65.	23.	1495.
Ceramic tile (Spain)	m2.	21.	25.	525.
Lucky and impregnation (Finland)	set	-	-	830.
Decorative elements, etc.	set	-	-	2560.
TOTAL	5410.
Total cost of work	23200.
Total cost of materials	21600.
TOTAL	44800.

The editors thanks the Williams Design gallery and the Stilhaus interior studio for help in preparing the material.