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Matryoshka House

Avvakumov Y., Pischukevich I., Zirulnikov Y.

Matryoshka House
1984

Moscow Art Center

At birth, man is covered with the fetal membrane, and for the rest of his life covers surround him. Any architectural product may be regarded as a system of such covers. Architecture as a science constantly deals with such notions as "the internal" and "the external", "images" and "masks", "the center" and "the periphery", "the arrangement in multiple layers" and "the separation into layers". The same terms apply to traditional dwellings (such as igloo, yurt, wigwam, etc.) and religious structures (such as pyramid temple, cathedral, chapel, etc.). The familiar Russian toy called "matryoshka" (a number of concentrically enclosing dolls) is perhaps the best description of overlaying covers surrounding man. The design is, properly speaking, not yet a dwelling: it is an archetype of a dwelling, its model in which the dwelling capsule is regarded as a layer-by-layer presentation of different covers: the sign cover, the structural cover, the energy and insulation covers, etc.

 

Utopia Foundation, Moscow