Medunitsa
A house of 124 m² near Moscow on a cross-shaped plan: four honey-coloured timber gables under one copper roof, around a spiral stair.
Key challenge
A compact family house with three bedrooms that feels like a cottage: pitched roofs, timber, a stove at its heart, and every room with its own gable window.
Concept
Two equal bars, 4.6 m wide, cross each other. All four arms end in a gable under a 45 degree roof, and the four roofs meet at one ridge height. Windows sit only in the gable ends, so every room looks out in one direction. At the centre a spiral stair winds round the stove flue; a loggia is cut into the south gable and an entrance porch into the east gable.
- Location
- Moscow Region, Russia
- Year
- 2026
- Status
- Concept
- Surface area
- 124 m²
- Type
- Residential, Research
- Services
- Residential Design
A cross-shaped timber house of 124 m² with four gables, a copper roof and a spiral stair round the stove.