The article formulates a functional-spatial “portrait” of a home in gardening for Novosibirsk and Rostov-on-Don, and establishes a trend in the construction of houses with an expanded set of functional zones. Scientifically based structural models of housing have been developed based on the dominant function (profile) of the house; work, rest and health improvement, cultural and family leisure, and options for combining them in the structure of one house and plot. Volume-spatial solutions for the distribution of the dominant function of housing in the structure of the house and on the site in the conditions of the existing development, regional characteristics, type of residence (recreational and permanent) for Rostov-on-Don and Novosibirsk are proposed.

Keywords: housing, dacha architecture, gardening infrastructure, structural models of housing, volumetric-spatial solutions, functional models of housing, recreational living, garden house, Siberian dacha, southern dacha