a house equipped with the latest technology Elena Mileshina

Passing the gallery

A photo: Evgeny Luchin

Text: Alexander Medvedev

Project author: Elena Mileshina

Installation: Igor Kostyunin

Magazine: Technological N10 (88) 2004

Such a house is difficult to imagine. Only in a dream - for someone magical, for someone horrible. In each room of this large mansion there is a plasma panel. Equipped with a separate cinema. Translucent screen hanging in the pool. Plasma panel built into the jacuzzi. All equipment is controlled by a complex system that controls the light, audio and video equipment, screens, curtains and home climate. This house is intelligent exclusively. And, not least, it is able to constantly evolve and improve thanks to a powerful cable network that allows you to scale up the system. It took only three months for the initial installation, commissioning and programming of all the equipment assembled here, and since then it has been regularly updated and updated. But this house can almost everything. You can turn on the light in the course of your movement. It is possible to control all systems through touch panels built into the walls or with the help of AMX portable liquid crystal consoles. You can watch movies and listen to music literally everywhere: from the gym to the cinema. The cinema is probably the most technically perfect object of this house. To select the optimal speaker system, measurements were made of the acoustic properties of the room, the walls and the ceiling were processed and covered with a special material. In addition, blinds were hung on the windows, guaranteeing complete blackout while watching. The impressive size of the cinema made it possible to install a large three-beam projector in it, which gives a picture of the best quality at home. All acoustics in the pool is built into the ceiling. The translucent rear projection screen completely “does not cut and does not reduce the space”: without an image it is almost transparent, and when it appears, the picture is hanging in the air and clearly readable on both sides of the screen. All audio-video components of the system are located in the next room, and they are controlled from the pool either through the built-in wall or via portable liquid-crystal consoles. Of course, I didn’t do without my cinema and a spacious two-tier lounge. Here is the central control panel of all home appliances. To watch TV shows, you can use a plasma panel leaving a wall on a special elevator. There is no serious blackout in the hall, and therefore it is better to use the screen installed right there, descending from the ceiling console, and a fairly powerful projector in the evening. This hall is more suitable not only for film shows, but for viewing video clips. Getting into this house, you soon notice that you do not pay enough attention to the bright modern interior, because it is completely absorbed by the technology that lurks at every corner. For real technomans, which, presumably, are the owners of all these miracles, the best, as they say, you can imagine.