Houseboats on the festival Archstoyanie 2008 Bashny.Net

In the Kaluga region in the village of Nikola-Sloth was a summer festival of landscape objects "Archstoyanie 2008».

The main project of the festival was called "Noah's Ark". According to the organizers' Archstoyanie 2008 "this year, the scene shifted from the scenic shores of the historic river Ugra water.

Landscape objects invented by Russian and foreign architects and artists, went to his only sail on the river, between the villages and Pakhomovo Zvizhzhi. Alloy stretches for 15 kilometers. In the "floating" parade was attended by five rafts, architectural structures which are the result of the author's reflections on how to build a "Noah's Ark" and be saved from the flood.

Were lowered rafts on which to place eco-friendly houseboats made capital architects Alexander Ponomarev, Vladimir Plotkin, Totana Kuzembaeva and Sami Rinnthal of Finland and the French Bureau of R & Sie (n).

After the completion of the festival, the house-rafts became the new objects in the form of guest houses in the open-air museum in the village of Nikola-Sloth

Architectural object-raft Screw me French bureau R & Sie (n) presented himself twisted into a spiral structure of stretched over a frame of white cloth. (Photo: AFP)