House A is located near the border of Minsk.

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Architects: Igor Petrenko

Location: Minsk, Belarus

Area: 497.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Kate Brichkovskaya

Structural Engineer: Valery Zhukovets

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House A is located near the border of Minsk.The main objective was to project a comfortable and functional home for one family. The house had to be designed without unnecessary decoration with the use of "clean" natural and beautifully-aging materials, such as wood, concrete, glass. Later, the owner of the house has formulated the title of this style as "functional minimalism".
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The house is a cube, embedded into the hillside. Wall materials are reinforced concrete (the outer walls of the 1st floor) and a brick. Floor slabs are monolithic reinforced concrete. Vertical surfaces between the windows and wooden facades are made of cement-fiber panels with concealed fastening. The main material of the facade finishing is larch saturated with a substance, which protects from ultraviolet radiation, but does not prevent natural aging. This allows the house to appear differently in each of the seasons.

Second Floor Plan

In the western part of the site, from the side of the road, there is a guest ...