even there, young artists always like to travel, so if such an idea arose that we needed some kind of a house where everyone could come, rest and paint, and so my friends and i decided to get together and buy such a house, we we traveled to several villages, looking for a suitable one, and the owner of this hut, vasyl petrovich romanyuk, when he found out that we wanted to rebuild, he did not sell us this hut, he gave it to us, he gave it to us so that we could revive it as it was 100 years ago, when his grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived here. well in general, this is, you know, the story of a decade, because this is not our family house, this house was bought by my dad many years ago, and it is such a very, very interesting story, because i was somewhere in the eighth grade at the time, he came and said: i i bought a house from a shev, and his eyes were so bright, i say everything is cool, but i immediately thought of football players. and

, i say, class, let's go, i'm already, we're already going here to this village, i imagine how i'm already swimming in the pool with my girlfriends here, dad gets up here, i say, dad, well, some wrong stop, i say, i myself i didn't fantasize, well, because it's the eighth grade, i didn't understand it then, he says, you'll understand everything later. at first, anya and mrs. inna started working on these houses for themselves, as they say, for the soul. but over time, a kind of hobby turned into a full-fledged cultural project. and now both places are open for guests, i have a grandmother, you know, she is such a prototype of a real grandmother that i knew that if i even brought girlfriends, now there will be dumplings, homemade wine, we, she will feed everyone there, put everyone in, i.e. i'm never in favor it didn't bother me, and unfortunately, after i graduated from the university, i always did n't have enough time to be with her, because we came with my daughter, it's friday, saturday there is sometimes at my parents', then at my grandmother's for a few hours, and on sunday you... are already leaving, and

when covid happened, for me personally it was such a stop, when i was able to completely reset and my daughter and i lived at my grandmother's, and i remembered in general what a pleasure it is to wake up, and she makes you soup for breakfast there, you eat soup for breakfast, no one, probably from the youth, eats it eats, but you wake up, you eat it with such pleasure, or some sialotka that crackle on the loop, they are not super useful there, but they are the tastiest. at that moment , anya remembered yakusheva's house, which her father had bought in her childhood, and realized that she wanted to take care of it. this is how the idea of ​​a cultural space dedicated to family ties and immersion in a boisterous childhood was born. from the very beginning, our first task was, this is about grandparents, yes, that is, we wanted to inspire respect in young people, even for neighbors grandmother, and if there is no grandmother of her own, then there is always some neighbor who is, why tell her. and this very first thing was my

important mission, and then we wanted to show that old houses in the villages are a very great happiness, there is no need to quickly chase after some european renovation standards and change everything, yes, that is, we wanted to show that our culture is so rural, it is simply beautiful, you just need to see it all, you can come to us to bake bread, see how it is baked, and even take part in something, we do not have a menu, we on... the estate, that is, we don't cook to order, you can't order a banquet from us , well, that's my principled position, we don't have electricity, and my dad offered me, he says: let me show you, there, if necessary, you can connect there, i say no , it’s not the same atmosphere at all, we only have candles, unfortunately, we don’t allow guests to stay overnight, because it’s a little dangerous, plus you need to know how to use the stove, i’m speaking from my own experience, because i i studied this for almost a year and until now. i am not a specialist at all,

you can also come for a photo shoot, or with our photographer, with whom we cooperate, or , well, they usually come with their own photographers, they are some ukrainian brands that shoot here , but for me, you know, it's a vacation, when you come somewhere there with a maximum of five or six people, and even less, when you can feel just this atmosphere, because when it's a party like that, when you're there with such a cool mood, you want some kind of just a wedding, well, that's not the right option, you have to go here. to just reboot, the most important thing is that you feel when you enter this house, unfortunately , it is impossible to convey through the screen, it is the warmth of a flooded hearth, the aroma of herbs and freshly baked fresh bread, here you just want to climb on a couch over the stove, warm yourself and think about nothing, we bought another house , there will be several of them, and each hut will be, it will not be just a hut, it will have the character of a certain grandmother, that is, we want to...

create each hut based on the prototypes of such a collective image of grandmothers, and each hut will have its own name , i took a closer look at two more huts, but for now we are not waiting until... that are not for sale, well, because during the war many people returned to the village, but for me, you know, the most important thing for me is not to buy them, that they are now lived in again, and they are now needed again, because it's much worse when you look at her , she's beautiful and nobody needs her, so let them be, let them be, a few months ago, when we were shooting this film, it was not yet possible to stay in the grandmother's house for the night, but despite the war and anya put this plan into practice, from now on... the house welcomes guests, come by the house that it was, that is, it was so almost destroyed, here, and the walls inside were destroyed, well, that is, there was no light, there was nothing, this is my great-grandfather's bowl, which

made jugs, and... i recently looked for these dishes , because i really wanted it to be like this one with polka dots, we found the old door, but it turned out to be a little smaller than the frame, so we are now thinking about how to solve this question, and my dad made me one one and a half bed, go through, it’s so traditional, there will be a bath downstairs, here therefore, if there is no water or anything in that hut, there will be light and water here. the poliska hut usually accepts people only during the day. we are not a cafe, museum or hotel. we are a green tourism estate, but in fact, this is our accommodation. we live, work and welcome guests here. therefore, this is our home. and all

who come to us are our guests, our friends. the territory of the house is small, but there is room to walk around. this is our photo zone. some say there are banners, make your own banners, i say no, it's all artificial, it's modern, and we have each a piece of our house, it is already a banner, why stick it on this modern thing, so we try to present different corners as authentically as possible, this is our kitchen, where people can cook something for themselves, or we already... cook for them, well, you can cook, bake, bake something in a pot, here we have such a small exhibition, well, for example, these grinjols, yes, these, yes, the same, the same

grinjols, these are the kind of sleds that have not been ridden, and in order to work, here... there is no soul, and their children dragged them from the forest as well firewood was hauled, or a sack of some sort could be transported, well, well, these are nights, in such small ones they kneaded dumplings, in such small ones, they bathed and washed children in such small ones, well, what was needed, they did, a grain shovel, but in winter it could also snow. throw away, therefore, for various things, usually, you know, women bring a towel or something there, they say, put it on you, because you will keep it, mine will be burned, my children don’t need it anymore, but you will keep it, that is,

they even some of their own relics , those that they kept for many years, i told you what it was there was a bed, a sink and a bench. everything else, it was already handed over to us, brought, handed over and everything that was needed there. but the most interesting thing in the poliska hut is the house itself, traditional, wooden, with a beautiful roof. if necessary , the hut could be disassembled, it is made of wood, put on carts and moved to another region. it was caused by, well, primarily, it's family. circumstances, if someone once got married and could move the house with them. well, the second component is political. if someone did not want to live under muscovites, they moved somewhere to another part, or vice versa, it could be transported somewhere. in order to cover the roof, our house

needs 2 hectares of rye. which peasant had 2 hectares? none. therefore, people sowed as much rye as they could. they had a place, and they covered it with particles every year, and now you can see on our house that the coverage is uneven, it depended on how much... rye was grown, and now we sow rye every year and cover it a little bit every year, with on this side it is a little fluffy, that’s why it has grown with such rye, why it has grown, because it is impossible these it was impossible to thresh out 100% of the seeds, and even when there were times of famine, people had nothing to sow after the famine, they opened their houses and looked for particles there. seeds were sown, and you know how many roofs there were, there for 10, 20, 15

years, and the grain germinated, maybe it was god ’s way, or maybe it’s true, ukrainians always loved the roof because it was under it in the summer cool, warm in winter. the only disadvantages of such a roof are considered short-lived and high fire hazard, because of this a house with a straw or reed roof in ukraine there is very little left, and mostly... museums or restaurants. unfortunately , we cover the roof ourselves, we do not have the opportunity to hire a crew, but we are happy that we do it ourselves, and during the work, we attract volunteers, people who want to learn, see, and all the tourists who come to us in august, they work hard, you milk for a living. we offer, but no one refuses, i tell you honestly, everyone wants to try, because this is

a unique opportunity to do it. now are more difficult times, and our estate is in wartime became such a refuge, i can't remember it without tears, because we were. the center where refugees and displaced persons came, and we had a lot of them at that time, and we had hostilities going on in several villages, we heard explosions, but parents still brought their children so that they would not hear these explosions, airplanes that we had here constantly flew, got to know the animals. who live with us, held some master classes, prepared some

food that we could already make there, you know, when the war started, and in the company where i i work, this is an international company , all the employees were taken abroad, and we succumbed to this panic as well, i have a small child, we sat down and left, and at some point i realized, i just woke up and realized that if i don't start embroidering, it happened like this, i just... i can't be there, i don't know what it's connected with, he's our cat of the nation, just like that, and then i went to poland, found fabric, found threads, and only i felt that all this sadness and pain was beginning to cover me, i began to embroider, and this is what saved me there, you understand, because it is not for nothing that they say that without culture there is no nation, and at that moment i completely reconsidered the importance of the grandmother's hut project in general, because... then we stopped being only about grandparents, then we already started to be precisely about ukrainian

culture, ethnography, and traditions, and our children should know what they are like. during the expedition in the kyiv and zhytomyr regions, when asked whether the house was for sale, we increasingly heard the answer that after february 24 , the people of kyiv bought everything, but there are also those who i was thinking about... my mazanka even earlier, back in the days of kovid. our mission was that we know that there is a large fund of mazanka in ukraine, but no one knows how to make modern, relevant housing from mazanka, because going to museums, seeing how people once lived, lived is one thing, but imagining yourself in this house is completely different, and our task was to create a modern home for a modern person. mazanka is probably the most famous traditional ukrainian house. such dwellings were most numerous on

the territory of the ukrainian steppe and forest-steppe, where there are few forests, and therefore wood for construction, but there is a lot of clay. mykola and his friend jan, who had never before had either the experience of permanent life in the village or the skills of building mazenoks, were fascinated by the idea of ​​creating something new on the basis of the old one. that is, we left the spot of this house original, it is 70 m2, it was like that, we simply replaced the materials that were damaged. at a time when people did not live here, we replaced these materials and traditionally restored it as it was, changing only the internal layout, and not slightly. the approach to work was also authentically modern, the house was being restored thanks to toloka, which was visited by young people from kyiv. it was covid, especially there

you couldn't go anywhere, and there were four of us living here, we did n't have enough friends, and we were the first... toloka was organized for friends, just to see each other, to show them what we do, because they were it is interesting, their friends went somewhere to some village, in general, there are such kyivites from the capital, they went to live in the village, and we spent three tolokas, and the last one was already there, there were 75 or 100 people there, she was, it was already such a big festival with a program, there was music, there were people. stories about crafts, there was practice, people molded clay, threw , that is, if there was a tolokat before, this is such a labor story, when people work seriously there for two straight days, and they only have lunch and dinner there, then in our country the working part occupied there only a few hours

a day, everything else we here are excursions, we showed them here about the ravine, what the ravine is, where we live there on... the river with them, we went to the islands there and ordered a boat. restoration the mazanka did not require colossal investments, because they worked as laborers, and the building materials were clay, sand, straw and a wooden frame. the principle of local construction is that the materials are underfoot. here is the tunnel where we mined the restoration clay for all the buildings we built here. and here... the house, that is, it is 3 m here, eh, the house was also built from this tunnel, clay for construction is available in many regions of ukraine, eh, it is even in transcarpathia, although there is not much of it there, it is from stones, it is more difficult to extract, but here it is necessary

look, there are mountains, these are the carpathians and the carpathian mountains. it is very wet there, so the mazanka may not be very appropriate there, because it is a biomaterial, this clay can drain faster under the pressure of moisture, you can use wood as a frame for the mazanka, but it can be different there, light, medium, you can to add more trees, there is such a technology as: eh sirets, that is, tako, if there is no wood at all, then you can make such bricks from clay and make a house for yourself, as if bricks were made of clay. the mixture for plastering is three ingredients: the first is clay, sand and straw. sand, it is inexpensive, it is available in

every region there, it can be brought inexpensively, straw as well, it is needed... it is not much, and it is sold in season, you can buy a bale of straw of this size for uah 25-30, i.e. all the materials are local, so they are inexpensive, they planned to make the mazanka completely ecological, so inside it is also clay, you don’t need floral wallpaper, linoleum and plastic, it’s clay with straw, as you can see, this clay with... now it’s not covered with anything , that is, before people used lime to hide it, it was there a white wall, when we saw such a result, and how nice it is to touch the clay , it does not smear, as it seemed to us before, eh, we decided to leave it as it is, and here are all the uh, uh, deposits, it’s very easy

to do , it is not necessary to cover it with any tree, the clay just fits right to the tree. it seemed to us such an aesthetic step, all the wood that you see is original, that is, it is an open structure, it is called a bastard, it is what the ceiling of the house is supported on, but it was painted with paint, several layers of lime, we all this was cleaned, opened and now you can see how i will be. house, what wood was used. the secret of this mazanka is that they correctly combined tradition with modernity, used everything that the original can give. material and modernized the interior, in accordance with the requirements and tastes of a modern person today. many architects

take history as a basis, they take colors, materiality, texture as a basis, well , these are the tools you use all the time, everything is new there - it is the well-forgotten old, and there is a gap between 100 years of the building wooden, you add modernity, and we have been observing it for 20-30 years, somewhere more, somewhere less, but we are nobody's business, we are not going anywhere from this, and architects use it, it is a cool tool to have such a worthy basis for of your architectural decision, so that you take some region as a basis, show how you implement it in a modern methodology and get a cool result. this element, it supports our ceiling, because... it has become heavier, and in these pillars, you see, there are such slots, a groove on two sides, in these grooves from above people are craftsmen

they put in a tree and a wall came out , but they lowered the boards down, down, down , that is, without nails, without any glue, without any connections, they just put them in from above, on this wall that came out of the boards, they already stuffed it. in the morning they even took such branches , nailed them to this wall from the street from the middle of the house, and already on this chipping they threw clay, and the chipping strengthened the wall and did not allow the clay to slide while it was wet, this is the original typical rough for two rooms, that is, in this room and in this room. warmth due to the fact that it is so big here rude this restored cottage has everything for a comfortable life: heat from the stove, water from

the well, gas and electricity. why the house has to be expensive, i don't know, it wasn't expensive before. my grandfather commanded four men and built four houses during the season. the house was built for summer after summer, somewhere around autumn, it had already dried up and it was possible to live there, almost everyone could build for themselves in a short time, i know people who have been building houses for 30 years, why so, well, everyone wants to live in in their house, modern mazankas should appear so that people see them more often, and they were a little delayed, that mazanka is not only a pie dish, it is not only my grandmother, there where when you... come and there you would not like to live in this house, because it is not sloppy there, but a mazanka can look very cool, very very appropriate for

modern life, it is ecological, it is pleasant, a mazanka, it arose because we are alive, we live in this nature, and it here it is appropriate, here it is inappropriate some metal cube, right, or? some glass skyscraper that is, it corresponds to this place of the mazanka. people who grew up, for example, in a mazanka , and who built this smear for themselves, it becomes native to them, and this is primarily a cultural weapon in our time, because if you love something, you don't want to part with it, you don't want to change it for something else, you're full to begin with. of the staff war, the desire of ukrainians to have their own house somewhere in the village increased, and that is why many families are now leaving big cities and moving further from infrastructure facilities and closer to

nature well, in our country, this whole situation led to changes, and very cool changes, what i mean, the society of big cities relocated and completely filled that part of ukraine, when they, where they had never been, that is, this... walkie-talkie that was forced, it leads to some changes, well, positive ones against the background of all this negativity that is sharpening in us, of course, what i am leading to is that the filling of the village, the ukrainian village, it will also take place, young families will take advantage of this, they already live, many came to their grandparents, felt this thrill of nature, coziness, remoteness from city noise, and it seems to me that this idea with the filling of ukrainian villages, it will be more... for the wave of life, that is, i am also thinking now, why not buy some small plot of white the river , and why there, i won't be there, of course , there to consult in the fence, but why not buy it

there for... and many people are thinking about it, because many people are using it now, it saved many people's lives, and we respect what will save our lives, that is, we all understand that there is another format live, life apart from the city cycle or the city vibe. those who moved to the village say that life in nature cures burnout and teaches to look at everything about. to accept imperfections, inequalities around and in oneself, i remember how in the 90s, if the wall was not level, and there you could apply a rule, and dollars would crawl through this gap, then he was later, if he was ashamed of it, here on the contrary, the more uneven the wall, the more exciting it is, and for some masters it is just

shock, stress and rejection. man is also not equal, you know how they asked the camel, but why you my back is so crooked, so he answered, and what is flat about me, that is, we don't see anything flat around us, in fact, we invented it, to be flat is just a concept, it is not something obligatory, it is not even natural, in some regions, young people are migrating back to peaceful villages, but in the north they are leaving... and in the south of the country, most of the towns and villages are simply destroyed. during the full-scale war, russia destroyed tens of thousands of ordinary ukrainian houses in ukraine, in which ukrainians simply lived, slept, ate and ran a household. and today , housing reconstruction is a new large-scale challenge for ukrainian architects. we are currently working on our, well, extreme direction, which is precisely

the preservation of the design code of the ukrainian village, and this is the only project in which we do not apply any creative idea, we basically just analyze the destroyed villages now based on the kyiv region, there we made eight categories , from the roof, window framing, porch, window framing, and so on, and we make such an online builder that will help you very quickly create a truly unique architecture, but it will coincide with the... region where you want to rebuild or repair, that is, it will be there in 10 minutes, you can assemble it, well, the generation allows you to make up to 100 thousand different solutions there, but it will be based on what occurs in the same region, but this is the only project that was very difficult for us to work with because we, as architects, thought, oh now, let's do something modern, let's do it, and we just have to give people the opportunity to reproduce the way it is, because in our vision, if dilapidated villages

will be rebuilt point by point... and out of 10 buildings on the street, three of them will be built modern cubes, so it will not be organic, it will destroy the profile, the authenticity of these cool one-story ukrainian huts, we visited about 30 villages there, photographed , they measured the size of the windows there, and it should remain as it is, the general principle will be, the profile of the ukrainian village will remain, we have modern materials, because we are no longer building there from scratch, we... build with lime or not wooden windows made of sticks and twigs, we we build there from bricks, foam blocks, concrete and everything else, but we adapt them to the existing geometry, that is, if you are building, the width, height, size, windows, number of windows, relative to the facades there, the location, well, the placement of the veranda, the dimensions of the veranda , the height there is the slope of the roof, we leave it, you can reflect it with modern materials, but the profile will remain, you will drive around the village and

the organicity of this... architecture will remain, because they are very economical there, they are balanced, they are made so that there to live, that is, there are no extra rooms, there is no there their number of meters, which you never have, there are no guest rooms there for a child who has not been born there yet, or for guests who never come, well, like, these are just rooms for living, you sleep, eat, live, work, everything, and they are very small, they are 60 m, there are 50 m. 40 m, she is awesome. if in polissia and dnipro oblast the houses were mainly made of clay, then in sever oblast they preferred wood. they not only built from wood. a special decoration - wooden lace - was created for houses. oh!