Today we want to show you a bright country housea house that was built for a large family. Thanks to the well-thought-out layout and cozy design, it can comfortably accommodate representatives of three generations at once. The "Yellow House", as the architect Anna Medleva calls it, is an example of Russian country architecture: a pitched roof, a terrace and a porch with wooden railings, decorative stucco "casings" on the windows. A solid building with a strip monolithic foundation, a metal tile roof and 510 mm thick brickwork is designed to serve many generations of the owners' family. Instead of a garden - a tidy forest, and instead of a family legend - an amazing "love story" that preceded the construction of the house. It was told to us by the author of the project herself. Anna Medleva, architect General Director of the design bureau "Architectural Policy". Graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy), Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages named after Maurice Thorez and the Milan Polytechnic Institute. Member of the Union of Architects of Russia, laureate and diploma winner of Russian and international competitions in architecture. When we planted the house on the plot, there was a need to thin out the forest. We mainly removed the fir trees damaged by the bark beetle, but we also had to remove some of the undergrowth. Many of the young trees were quite stunted, since below, under the old firs, they simply did not have enough sunlight. But in the middle of the plot, I discovered a young and very stocky oak tree. It stood firmly, truly, like a man, with its crown straightened out! And next to it, two meters away, grew a rowan tree - a slender beauty, stretching out its branches-arms to it. And I remembered the song that my grandmother sang when I was a child: "How can I, a rowan tree, move to the oak? " At that moment, I decided that this would be a house about love. We saved the trees. And now this oak tree stands right in the center of the terrace, knocking its branches on the window of the second-floor bedroom, and nearby, not far away, grows its beloved rowan tree. This is the Romeo and Juliet of this house.
Anna Medleva Well, the history of the construction itself, as usual, began with a design idea and plans, which the architect Anna Medleva talentedly visualized in her own hand-drawn sketches.
According to the architect's idea, the house should becozy, welcoming and literally radiating warmth. That is why sunny yellow was chosen as the main color of the facades, and the main feature of the interior was a convenient and well-thought-out layout that meets the needs of all generations of the family: parents, children, and grandparents.
The rooms on the first floor are like connecting roomsvessels, smoothly flow into each other: the hall-library into the living room, then into the kitchen or terrace. The dining room, which is part of the living room, easily transforms from winter to summer (open) with the help of huge glass doors opening onto the terrace, which turns into the garden. The open plan of the first floor is perfect for spending time together with family and friends. But there are also secluded corners, such as a guest bedroom and a bathroom. They were planned in case grandparents decide to visit their beloved grandchildren and stay for a while. Right there, under the beautiful wooden staircase leading to the second floor, you can comfortably settle in an armchair and leaf through a family album taken from the library shelf, while the children frolic in the living room waiting for dinner.
The second floor is the owners' personal spacehouses: a married couple and two children (a boy and a girl). Here is the main bedroom with its own bathroom. By the way, it is on the window of this very bedroom that the Romeo oak knocks with its elastic crown. The rest of the space is divided into two children's rooms and a separate children's bathroom. Considering that the main idea of the project is to create a universal comfortable space that is pleasant for people of different ages, IKEA items were chosen as the main interior filling. Anna Medleva, architect: - Furniture and accessories from IKEA are understandable, cozy, solid, simple and affordable. The house itself has these same qualities. I wanted to create affordable modern housing that would be a great alternative to an apartment in a residential area of Moscow: equivalent in cost, but offering natural benefits that are inaccessible to a city dweller (forest, clean air, birds singing, fragrant strawberries right on the site).
Images courtesy of designer Anna Medleva
