Moscow area, Russia
J. MAYER H. collaborates with Alexander Erman Architecture & Design to bring to life n.n. Residence, a house that represents a spatial exploration between concealment and exposure.
The project was awarded with the 2020 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The layered topography blurs the line separating landscape and construction. It is the private residence of a family in a rural area along the River Moskva.
The geometry of the floor plan fuses the building with the ground it is located on by removing individual layers and creates spaces between the strata.
A cross-section shows a rich variance between the floors, and the internal links and gradual transitions toward the outside develop open layers for a flexible and programmatic organization of space.
The ambivalence of privacy and openness is modulated in various states between gentle hills and closed air spaces.
By way of the building’s cantilevered and curved stories, a very wide range of transitions is formed between inside and outside, featuring constructed nature like climbing walls and pools, designed gardens and landscaped areas, as well as untouched nature.
The distance from the river is observed and protected by the natural water reservoir.
The greened roofs and dense floors create a better interior climate by way of surface evaporation and heat buffer capacities for heating and cooling.
The glazed facade around the entire building brings a great deal of daylight into the building and interlinks the interior with the garden.
The entire topography of the plot is arranged as a half-pipe, so that it rises at the edges of the plot hiding the view of the neighbors.
The family’s private rooms are located deep inside the building and remain undisclosed.
The bedrooms on the upper floors have direct access to the garden via the ramp-like green roofs.
Project: n.n. Residence
Architects: J. MAYER H. und Partner, Architekten mbB
Associate Architects: Alexander Erman Architecture & Design
Clients: Private
Photographer: Ilya Ivanov