{"id":35813464,"date":"2015-02-18T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arketipomagazine.it\/?p=35813464"},"modified":"2015-02-18T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:56:03","slug":"timber-residences-at-moscow-and-st-petersburg-zanetti-architectural-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arketipomagazine.it\/en\/timber-residences-at-moscow-and-st-petersburg-zanetti-architectural-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber residences at Moscow and St Petersburg \u2013 Zanetti Architectural Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Studio Zanetti Architectural Design<\/a> was given the task of designing two residences (called in Russian<\/strong> “dachas<\/strong>“), out of town on different sites deep in the countryside: one near Moscow<\/strong>, within the Pirogovo Golf Club, the other north of St Petersburg<\/strong>, facing onto the Gulf of Finland. The studio was able to develop the projects in complete architectural freedom<\/strong>, thinking from the start in terms of buildings constructed completely of timber, especially because of the historic link between the Russian people and nature, their own forests<\/span>. \u00abWhen I had established the impossibility of constructing the buildings on site in Russia<\/em>,” explained Umberto Zanetti<\/strong>, “after contacting numerous construction firms and seeing the difficulties, we ended up thinking of building the residences in Italy and sending them to Russia, thus solving all the problems. The dachas thus became, so to speak, flying dachas. Sending is a word which is not normally applied to a house, but the thought, which up to that point was “in progress”, took concrete form when people in Italy began to despatch the first emergency dwelling complexes after the l’Aquila earthquake: these were prefabricated timber buildings transported to the site with great speed. When the plans were completed, but still without ‘wings’, I set up a tender competition among some of the players in the Abruzzo operation, receiving assurances from all of them that the transport operation was in fact possible<\/em>\u00bb.<\/p>

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