Origami House
22/11/2013.
By Peter Kostelov. [Moscow] Russia
metalocus, ÁNGELA SOLÍS
metalocus, ÁNGELA SOLÍS
Origami House is the star of this episode of the Russian TV programme "Dachniy Otvet", customers meet once with the architect, Peter Kostelov, to say that their house needs, then the architect designs and builds the house complete freedom and creativity. Customers see the end result and evaluated. Enjoy every detail of this house to have fun, do exercise, sunbathing, swimming or to invite friends!
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Floor, Origami Housee by Peter Kostelov.
Floor, Origami Housee by Peter Kostelov.
Floor, Origami Housee by Peter Kostelov.
Render, Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Origami House by Peter Kostelov. Photography © Zinon Razutdinov.
Memory of project
The project was specially done for TV programme “Dachniy Otvet”. In the frame of the programme the customer and the author of the project meet only once, and then time comes for projecting and construction which is the matter of the architect exclusively. After the project is fully done it is filmed and customers are invited to view and evaluate it.
The first meeting with the customers defined and specified the project vector and its functionality. The customers are the family with strong sport background. Consequently they would rather get the place for summer recreation including sports than the object for doing gardening. As for the parents there was the only remark from them:
anything but basketball arrangement please! “So this short remark gave a complete freedom for fantasy and creativity.
If to divide the territory into functional zones there must be five of them:
1. Swimming and bathing zone: have a pool, a shower, a bucket for dousing after sauna. A small overpass adjoins this zone with a well to get water from. Significant detail of this area is a solar battery which massively contributes to an environmentally sustainable usage of the watering system especially when it comes to unpredictable Moscow weather.
2. Lying in the sun zone: have a few beach beds, podiums, armchairs; there must be a shelter to hide from the sun, to relax, to read a book etc.
3. The Gym: have simple but enhanced sport facilities: horizontal bars, parallel bars, “health disks”, and swing, badminton and volleyball playgrounds. There also must be a referee’s chair too. Finally a chest for changing clothes and towels and other things is a must.
4. Kitchen and dining room: should have a small kitchen, grill-barbeque, firewood stock, dinner table, summer cinema, and stereo-system and hammock chair.
5. Observation point: is in fact the second level which is intensively used for sunbathing. So there are a few check beds and watering system.
The project lives as double functional one: on the one hand it returns to nature and on the other- the project protects from the wind, rain and sun heat. These two interworking forms have subtle boundaries and complement each other, working as all-in-one-piece project. The white color was chosen to support the white buildings of the house and sauna.
Text.- Peter Kostelov.
CREDITS.-
Main architect.- Peter Kostelov.
Date.- 2012 (Building).
Surface.- 100 m² (Total area); 71m² (Constraction area).
Specifier.- TV Channel NTV, programme “Dachniy Otvet”.
Site.- village Zenkino, Moscow region, Russia.
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Peter Kostelov
Peter Kostelov, self–employed architect since 1995. Worked as an art-director on TV and cinema from 1994 to 1996. From 1993 to 1994 was doing a qualification course at VGIC (All Union State Institute of Cinematography).In 1991-1992 worked as an art director at “Kazakhfilm” Studio. In 1992 graduated from AGTXI (Almaty State Arts and Theater Institute)(Theater and Applied Arts Faculty). The Member of the Union of Architects of Russia.
Winner (First Place) XIII Festival “Landscape Architecture. Look From Home "Object For Landscape design" for an object "Dacha's Origami" October 2012. Winner, (second place) XIV International Festival of Architecture and Interior Design "Under the Roof of Home" 2012 for a "Multi-Level Apartment". Winner of Russian Architect Award “ARCHIWOOD 2010” for projects made from wood, in the category “Wood Decoration”. Grand Prize of XII International Festival of Architecture and Interior Design "Under the Roof of Home" 2010 for a "Wood Patchwork House". Winner of International Architect Award “ARCHIP 2009” in the category “Private House” for a private house of 133 sq.m. Winner of International Architect Award “ARCHIP 2008” in the category “Private House” for a private house of 1,530 sq. m. Was Laureate three times for Architect Award in the category of “Habitable interior”: Special Prize of the “8th International Art and Interior Design Festival” for Creativity and Character”.
