VATUTINKI
Total area: 25 acres
Location: Moscow, Vatutinki
Stage: Implementation
CONCEPT
Landscape elements of this project ideally complement land plot architecture uniting in the single ensemble of naturalness and architectural purity.
Ground-covering plants create a magical atmosphere of land plot endlessness and the cyclic route gives an opportunity to unlock the site's potential as best as possible, from all angles.
When working on paving, the architect has selected non-standard cover types and complicated units, where tumbled tiles of various types and formats are gradually replaced with the lawn enframed with a galvanized steel edge. The shade of single-step tiles with ideal step rhythm is merging them in a single composition with Liana boulders reflecting and accompanying a deep and complicated facade color.
Minimalism in plant selection reflects the garden mentality: it is self-sustaining and modern. Thus, each zone is separated from the next by green blocks of shiny cotoneaster making the land plot especially cozy. The parking zone is separated from the front entrance to the house, intimate space is created in the bbq area and the kitchen garden zone is hidden behind a cotoneaster curtain. The guests are accompanied by such green planted blocks along the entire network of roads and paths.
From the living room window, one can enjoy a panoramic view of a landscape composition with a brook and massive wild plantations on the slope.
Such precision and cleanliness of the garden should have an exception which proves the rule. There appears a drop-shaped geoplastic object on the ideally smooth lawn, the center of the composition are swings made of beam and the central alley accompanies us with an arch rhythm in the same style.
Garden features: naturalness and architectural precision are combined in the selection of materials and trimmed plantations. Tumbled tiles, trimmed shiny cotoneaster blocks accompanying us across the entire garden, geoplastics and modern architecture merge in the ideal ensemble of contradictions complementing one another.
The project has been developed by:
Anna Monakhova, founder of the studio, project head
Maria Kurdyumova, landscape architect
Ilya Ryabushkin, architect, master layout developer
Vsevolod Arzybov, architect
Kirill Glukhovkin, visual analyzer