exhibition project of a private house with a total area of ​​260 m2 Boris Levinzon

Passing the gallery

Text: Olga Korotkova

A photo: Kirill Ovchinnikov

Stylist: Natalia Vasilyeva, Vladimir Nikiforov

Project author: Boris Levinzon

Constructor: Nina Lisetska

Design: Andrey Bosov, Dmitry Kresov

Magazine: N1 (79) 2004

Petersburg architect Boris Levinzon and his like-minded colleagues are building bionic houses. He himself is convinced that he has no concept. The architect says that the idea is as simple as truth, transparent as glass: a house, like human life, should gently fit into the environment, that is, be like nature itself. Its plasticity, rhythm, aspiration upwards, to the light. Projects Levinson "talk" about it. They say without words, but very eloquently. The house-ark, published on these pages, is an exhibition project. It is located on the territory of LenExpo. And excites the imagination of anyone who visitsThe house, built in the tradition of organic architecture, involves a special perception of life. Understanding of space as close as possible to natural symbolism, the imaginative series literally "goes" into the sky, into space. Someone such architecture seems pure madness, but someone of the family is written to live in the bionic house. Whether a fairy tale, or profit ... No, the real house. What dream in childhood. Especially on Christmas. From cut glass, the house looks as if it is a dream itself, the flesh of a fairy tale, a living idea. It resembles not the Ice House, or the interplanetary station from Solaris. Outside, the "crystal pyramid" is covered - wrapped in a giant stone leaf, like Thumbelina's nutshells ... Inside, you look up and see the tower "here is such a high height," a "fast-fast" ladder, tightly twisted like a girl's pigtail. Chandelier sprays like a gust of wind, and a giant lamp “grew” from a flower bud ... Window bindings resemble the silhouette of a New Year tree, a winter evening light, thickening, gradually floods the entire house, or perhaps it is the all-pervading light of the Star of Bethlehem ... it is better to drink wine, childly perched on the railing. Remembering childhood and waiting for a miracle. Since, as the poet said, "all are a little magicians on Christmas" ... In the white rooms on the second floor, instead of the doors, there are lancet openings. The bend of the balcony is likened to a frozen sheet of grass, creeping along the surface of a slow stream. Upholstered furniture its forms are similar to the "swollen", boulders run in by the ocean. On the stairs the flower petals sprouted. Yes, and the walls themselves resemble either a giant bud, or a stem - in general, something of plant life. It turns out that the house-garden in the XXI century is a very possible thing ...Models: Konstantin Leschenko, Irina Hirsch, Anna Matalyga, children Kristina Akinshina, Vladik Pasterchik. Makeup Artist: Julia Rubtsova