The house is situated not far away from Moscow in a settlement built in the mid-2000s. The place has a developed infrastructure but, as is often the case with such places, its environment is all odds and ends: houses of all possible kinds you may think of hiding binding behind fences, just as diverse. The house with an area of 570 square meters is built on a comparatively small 0.32 hectare land site at the bottom of the settlement where the terrain makes a drop. Its author, the architect Roman Leonidov, tried to include into his composition as much of a garden as possible. The house also serves as a screen that protects the land plot from the noise of the highway. The garden is cascading down in terraces.

Two parallel parallelepipeds, a larger two-story one and a smaller single-story one, are connected with a lintel of a habitable bridge. The two-story one contains the public zone: the living room, the dining room and the kitchen below, and the master’s bedroom up above. The single-story unit contains the garage and the maintenance block. The driving entrance is made from the highway side and directly under the lintel bridge. The main entrance to the larger unit is also situated there.

The orientation of the house creates a feeling of being secure and having plenty of room at the same time. The relationship between the house and the street is slightly ambiguous: the street facade, conditionally speaking, is pretty much like a fortress – with narrow horizontal and vertical windows that, although do let in the light, are situated pretty high, and one cannot see anything through them from the street.