Villa Rastorguyevo is located in a quiet township not far from Moscow. Clients, a couple with a schoolgirl daughter and an adult son decided to build themselves a private house looking for a different way of living, yet keeping their apartment in the city.

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Architects: Gikalo Kuptsov Architects

Location: Moscow Oblast, Russia

Architect In Charge: Sergey Gikalo, Alexander Kuptsov, Anton Fedulov

Structural Engineer: Sergey Bogoslovskiy

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Ilya Ivanov

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From the architect. Villa Rastorguyevo is located in a quiet township not far from Moscow. Clients, a couple with a schoolgirl daughter and an adult son decided to build themselves a private house looking for a different way of living, yet keeping their apartment in the city.
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A plot on which the house stands is flat, it has 12400 sq meters. There are different sorts of trees growing on the plot ? some birch, pines and one maple ? all of them were kept.

Ground Floor Plan

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First Floor Plan

The house is composed of three square volumes, two of which, covered with pent roofs, are living quarters, while the third one with a flat roof is a garage. Volumes are shifted against one another to form three semi-closed court...