Markhouse is located in the area which has recently become home for a peculiar sort of micro-community made of people united by friendly or family relationships. What is more, they have organized a number of places for common use here, such as a lounge-club, a parking lot and paths between the plots.

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Architects: Drozdov & Partners

Location: Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Architects In Charge: Oleg Drozdov, Katerina Yolkina, Sergey Kostyanoy, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Pravik

Area: 350.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Andrey Avdeenko

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From the architect. Markhouse is located in the area which has recently become home for a peculiar sort of micro-community made of people united by friendly or family relationships. What is more, they have organized a number of places for common use here, such as a lounge-club, a parking lot and paths between the plots.

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Floor Plan

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The house, in fact, consists of two independent houses with a garage shared by several families. The major challenge was to ensure the western exposure of the house to the gardenin terms of hot summer weather. There was also a need to find a compromise between int...