This paper analyses the wooden villas of Pushcha-Vodytsia in Ukraine. This analysis partially relies on attempts to locate this architecture in between the wooden practices in neighboring countries. More precisely, the wooden villas of Pushcha-Vodytsia are compared to wooden summerhouses located in Otwock, Poland. The choice for the Otwock settlement was made due to their similarities with the analyzed Ukrainian example. As a result, the research question is: What are the differences in architecture, particularly detailing approaches, between two comparable wooden housing types constructed at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Otwock and Pushcha-Vodytsia?
The research methodology is based on gathering and summarising information about the development history, building masses, and detailing of the wooden houses of Otwock. Then that knowledge is compared with the history and architectural aspects of villas in Pushcha-Vodytsi. The literature concerning the Ukrainian example is limited therefore the analysis is done based on the available photomaterials.
The conducted research proved the wooden houses of Otwock and Pushcha-Vodytsia share similarities in terms of their historical development, building masses, and general approaches toward detailing. The aspects, in which the villas of Ukraine are different from the Polish example, are also underlined. Lastly, a brief analysis of the chosen ornaments of Pushcha-Vodytsia houses was conducted.
The conducted research established a new discussion theme that was not acknowledged before. Namely, the research concerning the wooden villas of Pushcha-Vodytsia is currently limited.