"Zodchestvo" House - geometric abstraction in architecture
“Zodchestvo” House is created within the
frames of CIS Young Architects Contest “Local Utopia in the Global
Dystopia” Festival “Zodchestvo 2010”.
The concept is based on the principles of volume distortion and
creation of an abstract visual image (silhouette) in the plane of the
picture. Volume of the house, built on the optical effects both in the
exterior and the interior, creates a desired form in the plane of the
picture from a certain view point.
On the exterior, at the house entrance, from a certain view point we
can see a flat image of "Zodchestvo" Festival logo due to the effect of
perspective.
Multiple methods of optical illusion are also used in the interior.
In particular, the railings are made on the basis of a spherical
three-dimensional form on a flat surface. Painting on the large wall,
from a specific view point at the entrance into the common area, creates
the impression of a growing into the interior space in three
directions.