Article source: Le Atelier

The house located in the 30 000 populated town in 150 km from Moscow. Private houses area in such places is highly diversified. There are absent any rules or limitations, one street can be place for houses build from trash and 3-storey height brick castle from 90-s. Surroundings full of “architecture without architects”, everything is always in process: if you need new room you construct it, without any project and with material you have for the moment. Belongings are divided by different generations and woodcarving neighbour with their plastic luxury. How to work with this diversified and often revolting surroundings?

Image Courtesy © Ilya Ivanov

• Architects: Le Atelier
• Project: Shatura House
• Location: Shatura, Russia
• Photography: Ilya Ivanov
• Lead Architects: Sergey Kolchin, Nadezhda Torshina
• Gross Built Area (square meters or square foot): 219 sq.m.
• Completion Year:  2016

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