Melnikovs' House Garden

This small urban garden is located on top of an underground garage in central Moscow. The client´s brief was to convert the cluttered and uninviting terrace into a liveable and green family garden. Simple materials such as pine wood and Black Sea pea gravel were selected to cover up the original red granite cladding. As all planting beds are on a podium and the soils freezes in the winter resilient and robust plants of the Russian north and Far East and cold tolerant steppe plants were used.
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Melnikovs' House Garden
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Vegetable garden concept
Melnikovs' House Garden
Archive photographs from the 1930s
Melnikovs' House Garden
Vegetable garden concept
Melnikovs' House Garden
Fence
Melnikovs' House Garden
Melnikovs' House Garden
Credits
Client:
State Museum of Konstantin and Viktor Melnikov (The Melnikov House).

Archival research done by the Museum Team:
Anna Kistanova, Dina Sakhno, Pavel Kuznetsov

Alphabet City Team:
Anna Andreyeva, Alexandra Kormushina, Maria Ashkova, Anna Sodaz, Boris Kondakov

Volunteers:
Faina Rogacheva, Alena Tolstikova, descendants of the architect Natalia & Kostya Melnikov, museum’s staff Nikolay & Oksana Melnik

The Museum Kiosk (reconstruction of the Mellnikov Shed):
Alexander Brodsky Bureau and Bureau Rozhdestvenka

Special thanks:
Pavel Kuznetsov, museums’ director,
Elena Melnikova, granddaughter of the architect,
Svetlana Andreyeva, Ekaterina & Alexander Zhukov, Wild Grasses Nursery, Anna Morozova, Nikolo-Lenivets Farm, Olga Malina, Tsvetochnaya Polyana Nursery.

Area: 350 sq.m.
Year built: 2018-19 (Stage I)