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03.01.1990, Kiev, Ukraine oleg.asoiev@gmail.com +32 488 90 79 15 +38 096 4566698

EDUCATION M.Sc in Architecture, (magna cum laude) KU Leuven Sint-Lucas Brussels, Belgium 2016 - 18 Exchange programme Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark 2017 - 18 B.Sc in Architecture The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kiev, Ukraine 2011 - 13 M.Sc in Industrial and Civil Engineering Kiev National University of Construction and Architecture, Ukraine 2011 - 12 B.Sc in Industrial and Civil Engineering Kiev National University of Construction and Architecture, Ukraine 2007 - 11 WORK EXPERIENCE Architect MASA architects, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2018 - 19 Architect KANCO studio, Kaunas, Lithuania 2013 - 16

LANGUAGES & SOFTWARE English - professional proficiency C2, Dutch A2, Lithuanian A2, French - eager to learn Ukrainian, Russian - mother tongues AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Revit, 3D StudioMax, Rhino, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suit HONOURS Nomination for the European Architectural Medal Award “The Vanvilla” Master Thesis Dissertation Project KU Leuven Sint-Lucas Brussels, Belgium 2018 2nd Prize, National Competition of Architecture Graduation Works “The Kindergarden” Bachelor Graduation Project Odessa, Ukraine 2013 WORKSHOPS KAD: kvadratu One week-long architectural workshop with children Kaltanenai, Lithuania 2016 Student monitor & participant at “YUNIPERUS” Architectural Summer School Three week-long multidisciplinary workshop Yablunitskiy Pereval, Ukraine 2013 PROFFESIONAL SPORT ACTIVITIES (Acrobatics Men’s Group) 2nd Prize, “Premiere Rampe” Circus Festival, Monaco 8th Place, Acrobatic World Championship, Glasgow, UK 1st Prize , National Championship, Vinnitsa, Ukraine 2008 PRESENTATIONS “The Vanvilla“ project public presentation at the Assemblea KU Leuven Sint-Lucas Gent, Belgium 2018 “Theater of Architectural Play” project public presentation National House of Architect, Kiev, Ukraine 2013 INTERESTS Photography, Literature, Cinematography, Sport

The Vanvilla Appropriation of the Red Hook’s Streetscape by Nomadic Vandwellers through Architectural Intervention New York City, USA KU Leuven, Master of Architecture Master Dissertation Project, fall 2017 - spring 2018 Promotor: Prof. Dr. Arch. Kris Scheerlinck

For contemporary sedentary man, city vandweller is homeless, while technically they are only houseless. Such a judgement comes from the absence of an appropriate niche in our conscious for this category. The stereotype of nomad brings us to tribes living in wilderness but not equal citizens. No niche in the consciousness of society – no niche in the city.

Nomads create a completely new reading of the street and the streetscape. The city is organized in a way that it circulates around real estate ownerships, where the street acquires a secondary, less valuable status. From sedentary perspective, street is a prephase to enter the property or interphase of getting from one property to another. Most of the time we do not care and when we do, our cares do not exceed the “phase” status of the streetscape. The nomad brings a new meaning and program to the street since it is an extension of his living area. It becomes not a “phase” but a “place”. Street, streetscape, and city belong to nomads.

Master Thesis introduces terms of the accidental space, levels of accidentallity; deals with the weakness of these terms; opposes improvised, unexpected routines of accidental spaces to defined programs and restriction they brings.

The Vanvilla questions the right to the city of the Vandwell nomads and proposes counter-gentrification process to address problematics of the neighborhood. It introduces architectural intervention as a mediator between weak context and weak user changing status of both.

This Master Thesis shows an alternative way of looking on imperfections of the city challenges our attachment to the comfort of estate, breaks conventional perception of the street and the streetscape.

Full presentation - vimeo.com/293850417

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Reflection Paper

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The Vanvilla. Plan. Sections.

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Models, scale 1:1000 and 1:200

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Approaching the Vanvilla

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Boondocking

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Alpha Edge Insight into the future with self-driven cars Wemmel, Belgium KU Leuven, Master of Architecture Design studio 1, fall semster 2016 Individual design project (Research done in group of 4) Tuttor: Bruno Peeters

General scenario Design studio’s focus was on the insight into the future with self-driven cars and its impact on urban fabric of a city. Case study for the research through design was Wemmel – town on the Noth-west of Brussels. Wemmel’s inhabitants are very car dependent. Its community refused the extension of tramline 9 which were supposed to link Wemmel with Brussels, preserving the homogeneity of the town. Studio called “nine to Brussels” Particular case what happens with most busy Wemels crossroad and its surrounding??

The hypothesis of self-driven car scenario states that only 2 out of 10 cars will remain on the road. Thus, the questions is how it affects a street and car parking spaces? For particular case, Wemmels most busy rotonde crossroad future was studied. After site analysis, was decided to introduce a roundabout, turning rotonde and nearby streets into pedestrian zone. Thus, challenge was to design a public space - Plaza.

Public space...??

According to The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte, Public Space – is a well-defined site, possessing its own Image & Identity. It brings people together, offering variety of things to do, providing enough place to sit and of course to stay. Place to sit is significantly important though. The structure of Public Space should facilitate people to be open & relaxed, thus ready for socializing and interaction.

Identity Wemmel is radical. It has a strong character. It possesses its own style. It deserves to refer with “he or she”. Wemmel is conservative, attached to his own vision, attached to the Belgium Dream. He’s main feature lays in relationship with surrounding nature. Specifically, it’s the Edge. Edge between urban & rural in Wemmel as thin as a string, as sharp as a blade, as steep as a rock. Edge is absolutely unexpected.

It can be encountered behind the corner, behind the square, door, courtyard… The Edge is the main feature of Wemmel, identifying its strong character.

Morphology Approach is to use main character feature of Wemmel in morphology of the new public space. Therefore, the Edge is to become the main means in creating Plaza.

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Potential of the pedestrian zone.

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View. Public library with access to the cortyard.

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View. Forest in the city.

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Inversion Proposal for the transformation of the Villa Park settlement in Lanaken Lanaken, Limburg province, Belgium KU Leuven, Master of Architecture Design studio 2, spring semster,2017 Individual design project Research partner: Kamilla Galimjanova Tutor: Martino Tattara

The Villa Park.

Framework of the task was exploring the potential of Belgian suburbia. In case of this project it is transformation of the Villa Park Settlement. Villa Park situates in Lanaken right on the Southeastern edge of the Hoge Kempen National Park. Main residents are people with high income, what reflects in spacious, luxurious villas and huge garden plots.

Varying in style and typology each of them possesses a strong character and is very attractive. Predominance of green bush fences; opened gates or create welcoming effect, evoking a wish to become a guest. Looking from the perspective of Single-family House phenomena – part of research done during the earlier stages of project, Belgian dream of owning the private house with garden, in this case, is pushed to the limit. Next step could only be possession of a castle. The question is, what is a future of these “little castles” in long-term perspective? The villas are extremely underused, unsustainable, expensive and difficult to maintain. The lack of facilities in the region, car dependency, migration to the city trend (urbanization) gives not much potential for the Villa Park settlement in future. In fact, it would be fair to forecast the decay of Villa Park settlement. So what happens if we invert the existing ratio and turn luxury privacy into luxury publicity?

Inversion project Main idea of the proposal is to preserve main identity features of the Villa Park settlement and combine them with working/living and co-housing principles. There are two main vectors of the transformation which would run simultaneously: creating spaces for working and for living.

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Project proposes to turn majority of villas into workshops, studious and offices.

The combination of luxurious family house typology with new function is definitely a potential for interesting space. To diminish the car dependency of the settlement the remaining villas ae converted into services and facilities.

Living The second vector – is creating a housing for new inhabitants. According to the calculation, one villa can become a work place for 8-12 people and the whole settlement - for 600 workers.

Meeting the challenge of housing solution for mentioned amount of workers and preserving the qualities of environment (mentioned relationship with nature) the concept of the pencil towers seems as a most fitting. Being developed in Hon Kong and New York, pencil towers are the product of high land values caused by urban density. These are slender skyscrapers with extremely small footprint, what in case of Villa Park minimizes the effect of the intervention on nature.

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Inversion

New housing

One bed living unit: 1.folding bed 2.kitchen 3.bathroom 4.storage

Two beds living unit: 1.folding bed 2.kitchen 3.bathroom

Two one bed living units: 1.folding bed 2.kitchen 3.bathroom

Ground floor 1.foyer 2.bicycle parking 3.laundry

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Overall settlement plan

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Fragement plan

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Display of Quotidian Elaborating on the the notion of the ordinary as opposed to the extraordinary interventing into the Klintegaarden residential complex in Aarhus Aarhus, Denmark Aarhus School of Architecture, Master of Architecture Studio 2A “The Art of Building”, fall semster 2017 In collaboration with Asger Lymann Jespersen Tuttor: Lars Frank Nielsen, Carolina Dayer, Anders Gammelgaard Nielsen

Theme The theme for the semester assignment was the ordinary opposed to the extraordinary. We started by choosing an ordinary action and describing it through drawing. To connect the ordinary with the extraordinary, we preformed the same action in an extraordinary context and captured this meeting in one photograph. This approach to understand the ordinary opposed to the extraordinary culminated in a final drawing where we had to capture and translate the atmosphere from the photograph.

Site We chose one site out of five different sites located in Århus. The 5 sites consisted of different courtyards which each had its own qualities and flaws. The choice of courtyard we made was based on the qualities and aesthetics inherent in the courtyard, the courtyard we chose is located in the residential called klintegaarden.

Approach We approached our chosen courtyard by mapping the geography of the courtyard and the actions which were taking place in and around the courtyard. For the focus of our assignment we chose the storage rooms located in and around the courtyard.

The storage rooms as spatial elements are very ordinary, thus contain potential for turning into extraordinary.

Klintegaarden is located in Århus at the southern end of Risskov, with a nice view to the harbor and the sea. The building process (1936 - 1938) was conducted by the engineer and architect Ove Christiansen.

At the time when Klintegaarden was erected the property which they were constructed on already housed two villas, those villas remained and was integrated with the new buildings.

For its time Klintegaarden was the most modern and characteristic type of building complex, both when you look at the building technology and the way it´s organized for the residents. The building was the first of its kind in Denmark to be solely build in reinforced concrete, casted as one building on site.

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Modernized storage of the Klintegaarden

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Stored objects

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Celebrating the Ordinary

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Display Column, sketch

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Interior view 1

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Interior view 2

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Interior view 3

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Plan 1. Hight level +1.20.

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Plan 2. Hight level -4.25.

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There are 8 columns in the new structure, the columns act in many ways: as structural elements, as source of light and as a displaying/storing space . It is possible to enter the space in two ways. First and more public entrance is located in the courtyard where you will find a stair going down to the new structure. The stair is strongly related to one of the trees in the courtyard. The tree has been preserved during the construction with a concrete cylinder casted around it. You go down the stairs along this cylinder and after entering the space you still experience the presense of the tree.

Interraction with the courtyard. Top view.

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The second and more private entrance is located in the modernized storage rooms at the bottom floor where two storage units have been removed to make room for a double door leading directly into the new structure, as shown in Plan 2. The tops of the display columns appear in different ways in the courtyard, some of them are in same level with the ground, some go above turning into place to sit or rest. Since the columns are a source of light for the space below, the top of the columns is finish with skylights which allows people in the courtyard to look down into the display space.

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vegetation 420mm intensive substrate filter fleece drainage board protection and storage fleece waterproofing membrane 20mm steel panel pedestal for raised terraces protection layer waterproof membrane thermal insulation 200mm (sloped) thermal insulation 200mm waterproof membrane 250mm reinforced concrete

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2x8 mm lam. Safety glass + 20mm cavity + 2x8 mm laminated safety glass

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100mm reinforced concrete waterproof membrane attached to skylight frame thermal insulation waterproof membrane

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shelves system, 10x10mm brass profiles & 10mm brass plates

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100mm fibrated concrete slab with underfloor heating waterproof and waxed separating layer 50mm buffer insulation 250mm reinforced concrete 200mm thermal insulation 300mm gravel filling subsoil

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3x5mm translucent safety glass

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Laika Conversion of Opek in Leuven Leuven, Belgium KU Leuven, Master of Architecture Conversion, spring semster,2017 Group project with David Wirth and Vittorio Degli Innocenti Tuttors: Dirk Jaspaert, Bruno Depre, Monika Rychtarikova

This project was developed on the basis of building technology course. The outcome of the task was a Large perspective section presented in scale 1:15. So far the project concept consists of two parts, reconstruction of existing (bottom) part and adding a new (upper) volume. Main Idea for the bottom part was to remove all the interfloor slabs and secondary beams, reveling the structural grid of the building, exposing beauty of construction. The top part contains two venues with stage and supplementary premises. The main finish material is reglit glass. The half-transparent quality of it creates a game of silhouettes moving behind.

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The Great Gate of Kiev Cultural center in Kiev Kiev, Ukraine KU Leuven, Master of Architecture Building Technology Integration, fall semster 2016 Group project with Alberto Aragon Tuttors: Dirk Jaspaert, Bruno Depre, Erik Geens

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The Great Gate of Kiev is a project developed within building technology course. One of the earlier architectural projects was to be picked and developed according to building technology requirements (fire escape, building physics, installations, detailing). In our case, it was one of my projects designed during Bachelor degree in Kiev.

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“Utopias of the New World�

Selection of drawings by fictional architect Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra Spain,Villa de Bruselas,1492 KU Leuven, Master of Architecture Elective: Conjectural Architectures, fall semster, 2016 Individual project Research partner: Vittorio Degli Innocenti Tuttor: Harold Fallon

Description Task of the studio was to select specific historical period and invent a character of an architect. From behalf of this character we had to design a Visionary Architecture, which according to the fiction has never been embodied in reality. The outcome drawings had to correspond the graphical language of historical period we were enclosed by.

Challenge was to develop certain ideology, style and approach inherent to the personality of fictional architect and exposed in architecture. There were six topics we had reflect through drawings: Monument, Institution, Infrastructure, City, multiplication of one of the topics. Also we had create a fictional letter to a real personality representing same historical period.

Outcome of the course was preparing an exhibition and a booklet. Drawings are done through collages and manipulation of the illustrations and manuscripts found online. Here are presented some extracts from the booklet.

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Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra, portrait by unknown artist

Abra or Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (1480 - 1575) was a Moorish architect.

Being born in Granada, his father was wealthy Moroccan merchant while his mother - Sephardic Jew. Due to repressions started with Alhambra Decree, 1492, he had to travel in Europe and eventually came to the New World, Villa de Bruselas (Costa Rica).

He is an author of a set of architectural utopias which were included to the collection of “ The Utopias of a New World� published by Joseph Whitehead in 1923. Abra is often described as being romantic architect since his main aspiration was to create a conditions for the dialogue between Man and Nature through architecture. He often appeals to escape, reclusion, pray and meditation.

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“Gates to the New World”, fragment from “Utopias of the New World”, Natioanal Museum of Costa Rica

Being deprived of his homeland, Abraham sees the New World as a New Promised Land. Only through the loss and suffering one can find Blessing. Gates of huge size, just alike the Triumphal Arch call for those who are suffering in exile to begin a new Blessed life.

Drawing is dated by 1531.

“Invitation”, fragment from “Utopias of the New World”, Natioanal Museum of Costa Rica

Invitation – are five observational towers. One note from Abra’s diary: “Only in unity with himself and the nature a man can find himself.” Abraham gives us an opportunity to levitate above the Great Kingdom of the Lord and thank Him in prayer and meditation.

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Well of knowledge”, fragment from “Utopias of the New World”, Natioanal Museum of Costa Rica

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Bottomless pit for endless knowledge of the world. Abraham invites us to retire away from the hustle and bustle and enjoy the cognition of the universe in desert nature.

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“Another City”, fragment from “Utopias of the New World”, Natioanal Museum of Costa Rica

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“Another City� an illustration off possible organization of cities in the New World. Probably the foundation for this work served the Cappadocia City, which Abraham visited in early childhood and was deeply impressed for entire life. On October 1524 he makes a note in his diary: “Among all great cities I visited, Cappadocia is the only place proving human to be a true part of Nature

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The Birth Surreal perfomence in three actions Location indefinite KU Leuven, Master of Architecture Elective: The/Le/Het Salon , spring semester, 2017 Individual project Tuttors: Arnaud Hendrickx, Wim Goossens

The birth of surreal – is a performance that encounters the topic of emergence of the surrealistic art. The main participant and character is Rene Hevaert’s untitled 1981 (two shoes on wooden sticks). Performance is divided into three acts. In first act, “gravity”, Heuvaert’s masterpiece appears enclosed in solid block of ice placed in dark room. Next act, “motion”, captures the process of melting of the ice block, emerging art piece and its reflections in the growing puddle. “The birth” – third act, exposes a masterpiece ingloriously floating in the puddle. This performance metaphorically correlates with birth of a child, act deprived of any aesthetical beauty, however full of significant content.

“surreal” - marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream how does it come out? a boom? or meditation? new born babies are not that cute...

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untitled, Rene Heyvaert 1981

we are not mistake, neither we are purpose, we are the juxtaposition of mistake and purpose we need two points on the wall and same amount on the floor but what will happen to us though in case we lost at once them all

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Presentation. Ice model 1:10

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Untitled, Rene Heyvaert 1981. Model 1:1

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MASA architects Architect at MASA architects Rotterdam, Netherlands masaarchitects.com summer 2018 - spring 2019

KAREL’S RESTAURANT ROTTERDAM Karel Doormanstraat Street, Rotterdam fall 2018 Karel’s Restaurant is an ongoing project of MASA architects. I was involved in the project from the beginning and executed role of the project leader at certain phases. The opening is scheduled for the fall 2019.

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CCC+ PLOT B17 Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye, Moscow summer 2018 PLOT B17 in collaboration with MADMA urbanism and landscape is a part of closed international competition for the urban planning and architecture concept of the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye territory in the west of Moscow.

Personal contribution: participation in the concept development, drawings production and competition delivery. For more information: masaarchitects. com; madma.nl

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KANCO studio Architect at Kanco studio Kaunas, Lithuania 2013 - 2016

Kaunas National Theater Fencing spring/summer 2015 Status: built Part of Kaunas National Drama Theater Reconstruction Project. The task was to design fencing for different spots of the theater’s territory. Cumulative length is 60m. Fencing should have been designed for the direct manufacturing, thus dimensioning had to be precise what was the main challenge.

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Reconstruction of the Vilnius National Drama Theater Summer 2016 Status: competition (winning entry) Contribution: interior’s concept and visualisation of the Theater’s extension proposal. Today KANCO is working on the realisation of this competition.

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Gulbinai Private Houses Construction: 2012 - 2016 Status: built KANCO developed a big number of high quality private houses, this one I find most remarkable though. Personal contribution: layout fragments and technical drawings for the construction, interior design and renderings.

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Jumping House Recreating the imaginary city “Yalivet’s” described in “Yuniperus” by Taras Prohasko Yablunitskiy Pereval, Carpathians, Ukraine Multidisciplinary workshop “Yuniperus“ yuniperus.blogspot.com summer 2013 Curator: Vadym Zaplatnikov, Larysa Merkulova

The “YUNIPERUS” architectural-literature summer school event was a reflection on “The UnSimple,” a novel by Ukrainian contemporary writer Taras Prokhasko about the imaginary town of Yalivet’s. The “jumping house” is one of the main characters of the “Theatre of Play,” a piece I developed during the workshop.

The play was based on the idea that, in order to help people relax during vacation, all the homes can move and deliver people to various areas of the Carpathians. In case there is an obstacle on the way (rock, river or another house), the house just jumps over it.

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Jumping House on a walk

Jumping House. Positions

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