The project has been developed specially for popular TV show «Dachniy Otvet» (Eng: the village talks). The idea of the show is that for those owners of country houses and cottages, who agreed to participate in the experiment, the invited designers or architects do re-planning of a part of their cottage. The important moment is that the house owners pay nothing for reconstruction, but at the same time they can’t influence the result, so it comes always unexpected for them. The architects in their turn try to offer the most original solutions.

In this case the object is an ordinary two-storey house made of brick, with a mansard. It has an attached basement on which its owners, a family of university teachers with three young sons, planned to make a covered terrace.

Summer Terrace

• Architects: za bor architects / Arseniy Borisenko, Peter Zaytsev
• Location: Moscow Region, Russia
• Principal Use: recreation
• Engineer: za bor architects
• Materials: metal frame, polycarbonate, cedarwood
• Constructed Area: 43 sqm
• Project year: 2009-2010
• Photographs: Peter Zaytsev

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