Earlier it used to be a studio apartment;
practically it was a one bedroom apartment. After reconstruction there came out
a few more separate rooms: a spacious living room, a bedroom, study room, library,
two wardrobe rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a lavatory and shower for guests.
All these were placed around the space of 86
sq. m. As a result a bedroom and a kitchen became far smaller, hence the living
room bigger, therefore the space left worked well for a wardrobe room,
adjusting to a bedroom as well as for many other places. Besides the ceiling
was lowed giving space for an entresol to store house hold things.
The open space with a column in the center was
filled with a frame made of steel tubes. The frame hasn’t been trimmed with any
decorative materials except of metal cover, which can be easily replaced by
wood, stone, paper wall, cart or whatever. The conception goes first and stays
the same.
How the idea of a module works. 2,8 m ceiling
conventionally divided by 4 is 0,7 m. pace which can be accepted as a module
for a spatial interior design. For instance: 0,7 m times 3 are 2,1m, it’s
the height of the doors and entresol location; double 0,7 m is the height
of display cabinet unit in the living room, 0,7m times 4 is for bookshelves.
The principle of a module works and is traced
all around the apartment. For me it was a matter of an utmost desire to create
an indivisible architectural design. Practically it is deprived of any
decorative elements. The most essential of it is the functional purpose of a
design together with the principle of unities of all the elements of the space.