The house is located on a clearing inside an oak-tree forest that is homogenous in its structure. Much in the same way as flat steppe, the homogenous dendrology of the forest is far from being a simple setting for developing a scenario. Therefore, as long as we define the forest as an ?occupied? place, we introduce the empty space of the peristyle as an ?antithesis? to it.

© Andrey Avdeenko

Architects: Drozdov&Partners

Location: Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Area: 823.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Andrey Avdeenko

Architects: Sergey Vlasov, Oleg Drozdov, Vyacheslav Zhemir, Ekaterina Yolkina, Sergey Kostyanoy, Aleksander Pominchuk, Timofey Ulanchenko
Plan

© Andrey Avdeenko

From the architect. The house is located on a clearing inside an oak-tree forest that is homogenous in its structure. Much in the same way as flat steppe, the homogenous dendrology of the forest is far from being a simple setting for developing a scenario. Therefore, as long as we define the forest as an ?occupied? place, we introduce the empty space of the peristyle as an ?antithesis? to it.

© Andrey Avdeenko

Under the influence of some centrifugal force, all the elements of the estate are exposed to the forest with their outer contour. The inner courtyard unites and brings together...