„Edge House" is located in the outskirts of Tbilisi, in the village of Tabakhmela. Since ancient times, this territory has been used for country houses. According to the current situation, the village is divided into three parts. The central part, which includes apartment buildings of the modernist period and "Soviet Lab" (which has lost its "life" today). The slopes to the north and south of the central part are built with individual one-flat residential houses.
The plot represents a kind of border between the built-up area and the picturesque green meadow. The Kumis reservoir, located in the southeast, serves as a spectacular extension of the surrounding landscape.
The client's aim was to create a healthy living environment for a family of four and their guests. It was important to separate the active and passive living spaces in the building, which led to the formation of two parts with different volumes. The two-story part of the building is the first to be reached, using the main entrance on the eastern side of the plot, where there are: main union space, sanitary facilities, technical room, workroom, exercise room and bedrooms. In the one-story part, distinguished by a non-standard ceiling height, the kitchen, living room, soft furniture, and fireplace zones seamlessly blend without boundaries. The landscape spread out from the southern part of the plot turned out to be a kind of impetus to make the main courtyard in the southern part, the entire surface of which is covered with grass except for a small connecting path, on this side there is a roofed summer space, which is directly connected to the active area of the building and to all other spaces through the flowing facade. There is a rear yard on the north side, the connection to this space is possible from the free parts of the territory as well as from the active and exercise zone of the building, and the latter gives more life to this space.
The palette of finishing and interior materials used on the building, as well as the complete architectural project of this residential house, represents a kind of struggle between massiveness and lightness. On the facade, along with the rough-hewn and asymmetrically arranged local limestone, massive metal plates in their natural form, without processing, and massive oak wood material are used. The unity of spaces is ensured by aluminum "slide" stained glass windows. The kitchen wall as part of the facade is made of oak wood material. Perforated travertine is used on the TV surface, along with metallic details. One of the keys to the overall integrity of the spaces on the ground floor level is the mosaic floor covering. In the bedrooms, doors and furniture made of oak veneer complement the dominant white color. Depending on the location of the building and the distribution of spaces, natural light and air masses flow perfectly through the living environment. The roof, made of sandwich panels in anthracite color, completes the geometry of the building.
I think that during the design and subsequent construction stage of an individual residential house, the architect is obliged to assume the role of a manager, who will be a kind of bridge between the existing area, the customer and the builder.