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During the time of total standard expansion the architects, except those few working for the institutions of standard engineering, were not involved in housing design. There was no need to engage many architects, taking into account stable standard regulations of the types 445 (according to the number of habitable rooms) of flats. Working out of individual projects was ordered by Moscow and bore exclusive nature. The professional school was degrading. Then, all of a sudden, the state monopoly collapsed, and the building business was filled by a flow of unskilled employees, who now have to learn from their personal experience and to master this most complicated type of architectural and building craft. The usable area of a standard flat was calculated up to the fractions of a square meter. Now, when the builder and the architect became face to face with each other, and the first one does not quite know what he wants, and the second one 4 what he can, a number of square meters of unusable area are freely roaming around the flats, being passed off as an elite feature. The sense of planning and the pleasure in this occupation will come in the course of time, in the second turn though, because now, in revenge on the standard austerity, the creative fancies are usually performed on the facades. And it often seems that a standard house is more honest and perfect with respect to the great architecture than the today's individual one.
Houses are built rarely and they are expensive in Irkutsk. It is impossible to penetrate into the oddity of such «market». The building business satisfies status quo. And the rest is all right.
During the time of total standard expansion the architects, except those few working for the institutions of standard engineering, were not involved in housing design. There was no need to engage many architects, taking into account stable standard regulations of the types 445 (according to the number of habitable rooms) of flats. Working out of individual projects was ordered by Moscow and bore exclusive nature. The professional school was degrading. Then, all of a sudden, the state monopoly collapsed, and the building business was filled by a flow of unskilled employees, who now have to learn from their personal experience and to master this most complicated type of architectural and building craft. The usable area of a standard flat was calculated up to the fractions of a square meter. Now, when the builder and the architect became face to face with each other, and the first one does not quite know what he wants, and the second one 4 what he can, a number of square meters of...
During the time of total standard expansion the architects, except those few working for the institutions of standard engineering, were not involved in housing design. There was no need to engage many architects, taking into account stable standard regulations of the types 445 (according to...
Vladimir Bukh2-2
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Brian Spencer, AIA / IAA is a registered architect with 32 years of experience. He has worked domestically throughout the United States, as well as internationally in Europe and the Pacific Rim…
Spencer is one of only five American architects elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Architecture & Construction Sciences. He is both Professor and Academician in the International Academy of Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria and serves on its' Academic Council.
And he was also elected Honorary Visiting Professor at the Politechnika Gdanska in Gdansk, Poland. Brian is an adjunct faculty member of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and serves on the Board of Directors of the Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin Heritage Tourism Program.
Brian Spencer, AIA / IAA is a registered architect with 32 years of experience. He has worked domestically throughout the United States, as well as internationally in Europe and the Pacific Rim…
Spencer is one of only five American architects elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Architecture & Construction Sciences. He is both Professor and Academician in the International Academy of Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria and serves on its' Academic Council.
And he was also elected Honorary Visiting Professor at the Politechnika Gdanska in Gdansk, Poland. Brian is an adjunct faculty member of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and serves on the Board of Directors of the Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin Heritage Tourism Program.
Brian Spencer, AIA / IAA is a registered architect with 32 years of experience. He has worked domestically throughout the United States, as well as internationally in Europe and the Pacific Rim…
Spencer is one of only five American architects elected a foreign member of the...
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Adopting the African village configuration, the design of each estate is revolved around the pool, which is an anchor point with the rooms on each side.
Each estate is a collection of special purpose pavilions within its garden.
Privacy and a sense of isolation is the design. The choice to interact with neighbours is exercised by each tenant, and is not the result of inadvertent proximity.
The indoor becoming the outdoor, with the outdoor being within the Estate, is the intention; a oneness with the environment, with both the built up and the natural leading.
Adopting the African village configuration, the design of each estate is revolved around the pool, which is an anchor point with the rooms on each side.
Each estate is a collection of special purpose pavilions within its garden.
Privacy and a sense of isolation is the design. The choice to interact with neighbours is exercised by each tenant, and is not the result of inadvertent proximity.
The indoor becoming the outdoor, with the outdoor being within the Estate, is the intention; a oneness with the environment, with both the built up and the natural leading.
Adopting the African village configuration, the design of each estate is revolved around the pool, which is an anchor point with the rooms on each side.
Each estate is a collection of special purpose pavilions within its garden.
Privacy and a sense of isolation is the design....
Gaetan Siew, Well Lampotang48-49
Articles (before 2013)
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Why there is a tendency not to build the objects, which are in great demand?
Mostly people prefer not very big single- or two-room flats, having decent 50-70 square meters area. But the apartments in newly-erected buildings generally consist of four, five and more rooms and have two levels of 100, 200 and more square meters.
Why the construction is so erratic? Why and what for the tight «planting» of cast-in-place wireframe high-rise buildings adjoins vast abandoned lots?
Who needs absurd and uncomfortable design to dominate in the newly-built flats? Incongruous corridors through the whole flat, huge halls, staircases as big as a tennis ground, and at that much tightness, the size of lavatories that used to be in Khruschev's time, low ceilings, poor sound isolation and so on…
Unfortunately, the old good formula «to find who makes a profit on it» does not work in this case. Nobody considers it profitable to let the houses be expensive, scarce and uncomfortable at the same time. None of the alignments forces the problem of dwelling regardless of the interests of the majority of citizens. And it is hardly in power of any alignment.
One may suspect «them all» of collusion, but this can quickly lead to paranoia. Then follow the interviews with an interior designer, a head of a big construction company, a culture researcher, an architect and a tenant of a newly erected building.
Why there is a tendency not to build the objects, which are in great demand?
Mostly people prefer not very big single- or two-room flats, having decent 50-70 square meters area. But the apartments in newly-erected buildings generally consist of four, five and more rooms and have two levels of 100, 200 and more square meters.
Why the construction is so erratic? Why and what for the tight «planting» of cast-in-place wireframe high-rise buildings adjoins vast abandoned lots?
Who needs absurd and uncomfortable design to dominate in the newly-built flats? Incongruous corridors through the whole flat, huge halls, staircases as big as a tennis ground, and at that much tightness, the size of lavatories that used to be in Khruschev's time, low ceilings, poor sound isolation and so on…
Unfortunately, the old good formula «to find who makes a profit on it» does not work in this case. Nobody considers it profitable to let the houses...
Why there is a tendency not to build the objects, which are in great demand?
Mostly people prefer not very big single- or two-room flats, having decent 50-70 square meters area. But the apartments in newly-erected buildings generally consist of four, five and more rooms and have...
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