Specifics of wooden housing construction in Irkutsk

Abstract

Irkutsk is the capital of Eastern Siberia and it can also be called the capital of wooden architecture. Many wooden buildings are of unique cultural and artistic value. Special originality and uniqueness of the city of Irkutsk gives the distinctive wooden architecture. The uniqueness and uniqueness of modern Irkutsk is that to this day it has preserved wooden houses that have come down to us almost unchanged. For a long time, different styles were used in the construction of wooden houses: baroque, classicism, modernism, art nouveau, eclecticism. An interesting fact is that the listed architectural styles in Irkutsk have never been used in their pure form, and samples of the decor of wooden buildings were interpreted by Irkutsk masters independently, which led to the birth of the original original architecture. Some of these technologies are still popular today, for example, decor technologies: relief ornament; slash; overhead; oriental decor. The art of building from wood in Irkutsk has its own specifics, taking into account the nature of the material and construction techniques. The expressiveness of wooden architecture is achieved by simple geometric shapes, natural wood texture, such as pine, larch, oak, fir and others. Construction techniques are determined by socio-economic and climatic conditions. In Siberia, there have long been two structural systems of buildings – log and frame, which are still used today.