Let's take a look at the "House with the Chandelier"

Nikola-Lenivets, an ancient village in the Kaluga region 220 kilometers southwest of Moscow, is the natural set of the "Archstoyanie" annual festival

Founded in 2000 as a spontaneous initiative by the artist Nikolay Polissky to revitalize the country, the event soon established itself among the main events of Land Art in Russia.

An opportunity for experimentation and sharing often realized with materials such as snow, hay, firewood, birch rods.

Every summer artists, musicians, dancers and especially architects, national and international, are selected for a performance or to create a construction, according to a previously identified theme.

In 2017 the festival participants had to answer the question "How to live?"

The response of the architects' studio was to create a very special little house.

This is a residential unit for two people made of wood and without windows. The only opening is in the ceiling, where the transparent volume of the skylight houses a chandelier.

During the day, the house is lit by natural light. In the dark, the chandelier illuminates the interior of the house, but also shines outwards, leaving however the lives of the inhabitants is completely hidden from the eyes of outsiders.