Podiums in the interior: Types of design, finishing options, arrangement and safety rules. Opinions of specialists about their feasibility.
Photo K. Manko, M.Stepanova
M.Vyatkin,
O. Schechchina
Photo E. Mulchin,
P. Lebedeva
L. Labov,
A.Mit
Photo K. Rodenko
A.Kaprov
Photo E. and S. Morgunov
We can not only single out two different functional areas, but also add a third-storage area to them. For example, this is: lift above flooring bed, sofa, office study or recreation area, and turning the inside of the design into a horizontal cabinet with extending from the end with the boxes for clothes and bed linen
E. Koltsova,
E.Smetanina
Photo M.Stepanov
The most common material for finishing technical podium-tile. Variants are many. Well, the combination of standard tiles and mosaic looks
O. Gavrilova
Photo V.Nepledov
Podium penalty is most suitable for children's, it is a bedroom, and workplace
D. Fedorov
Photo M.Stepanov
A small kitchen is separated from the dining area with podium and partition, which can also serve a "dispensing window"
Construction of monolithic podium:
1- slab overlap;
2, 3 - waterproofing (coating, occupy);
4-point lamp;
5- Ceramzitobeton;
6- Tile glue;
7- Ceramic tile
Frame podium design:
1-parquet board;
2- substrate;
3-waterproof plywood;
4-pergamine;
5-axle 15050mm;
6- Ceramizite;
7- sound insulation;
8- screed;
9- Plate of overlap
O. Pronin
Photo V.Nepledov
Sanusel
Divided into functional areas using a highlight floor with illuminated
D. Fedorov
Photo M.Stepanov
Original Spatial Side Bedroom: Convenient, Functionally, Compact and Very Cozy
N. Svetichnaya
Photo by D.Minkina
Look out the overestimated design is not so much aesthetic moment as the issue of elementary safety. Optimal coating, soft-combined color
N. and G. Chernyak
Photo E.Lichina
Upholstered catwalk of the podium, which has a sleeping place, is organically moving into the bathroom, weathered in the same color scheme
E. Koltsova
Photo Z.Razutdinova
The kitchen is raised to the exaltation and recessed in a niche - it makes it an autonomous zone
A. Belyavskaya
Photo of Shablovsky
If it is decided to "raise" the kitchen, it is better to cover with it and a dining area
S. Yakovlev
Computer graphics
A.Birki
East-style podium-out, is an ideal place for relax
If "Mir-theater, and people in the actors", then our whole life is the scene. On the stage can be transferred and life ... The multi-level floor in the urban apartment is comfortable both with aesthetic and from a practical point of view. But to decide to create it, we need weighty arguments. About the structure of structures called podiums, we will talk about their feasibility.
The podium is usually designed in small rooms or, on the contrary, with excess square. In addition cases, it is asked for technical necessity. The construction raised above the floor becomes an expressive architectural element zoning the room. Also, the podium allows you to save place: on the elevation you can equip the bedroom, the office, the children's, recreation area, and the free space inside it is to adapt to storage. This design is extremely useful when you want to disguise engineering communications.
All podiums are conventionally divided into technical, decorative (design) and functional. Based on the application of the application, the type of design - monolithic or frame, as well as its design is chosen.
Beautiful masking
When the bath or shower cabin is removed by a significant distance from the sewer riser or put it into the center of the room, you need to lift the floor to hide inclined drain pipes in it. If the lifting of the floor level on its entire area is not included in the reconstruction plan, build technical podium- in order to raise only a bath or shower cabin (or other technique). Its height is calculated based on the diameter and slope of pipes, as well as taking into account the distance of the argument into the sewer: the farther equipment, the higher the stage of the podium (floor).
Competently and neatly made design, lined with the original in drawing and color with a tile or trimmed with wood, decides not only technical, but also decorative planning tasks, becoming an organic component of the embodiment of the artistic plan. Technical podium-cutting and in case the kitchen is complex as the "island", and the cooking panel, the sink, the dishwasher is separated from the walls and transferred to the center. Then the podium is elevated throughout the kitchen area. Inside it hides all communications, access to which is carried out through the revision lung.
In general, about the podium in the kitchen, designers disagree in opinions. Some without oscillations raise the working area. Others believe that all the increase or decrease in the floor level of the working area justify only technical circumstances. IVSA Because the step can complicate the process of serving the table in the adjacent dining area and even cause injuries, and not only in the dark.
There is another nuance that you also need to remember. When moving around the apartment, a person is not particularly thinking, as if he scans the floor with his eyes for its safety. Like sharp color transitions on an absolutely smooth floor, level drops, and even more so subconscious search for the obstacle (we know that it is somewhere), may cause a feeling of discomfort, psychological tension.
Technical podiums are monolithic, and frame. Monolithic structures are more often used in rooms with a significant load on the floor due to overall furniture or heavy sanitary equipment, as well as where the finish coating will serve as a tile. However, an excessive massive design using a concrete or cement-sand screed can add a load on intergenerational floors. There is a lightweight option: the design is poured by the same cement-sand tie, but with the use of clay. First, make formwork for fill to separate the design site. Ceramzit and the mortar mixture in equal volumes are placed on the primed floor. After hardening the ceramzite concrete, a layer of cement screed with a thickness of at least 20mm is applied. Or another way: the base is poured into the base, and then water with cement milk. The solution should not be very liquid so that the clamzite does not "surface", and the screed did not crack. After grappling the solution, the top layer of the screed is put, while not forgetting about the rigid (road) reinforcing grid.
When arranging the monolithic podium between the design and the wall lay the damping tape from the foamed polyethylene with a thickness of 3-4mm and width equal to the height of the structure. This is necessary in order to eliminate the voltage in the thickness of the material (it occurs when the cement mortar occurs and during operation) and thus avoid its cracking. From above, the seam is closed in accordance with the finish material (plinth, sealant, grout).
Iconicient, "layering" the podium in the bathroom begins with waterproofing: coating, inlet, then ceramic concrete, tile glue, ceramic tiles.
The advantage of the monolithic podium made according to the "wet" technology is in its rigidity, strength and moisture resistance. That is why most often it finds use in bathrooms and kitchens. The cons of the monolithic design is heavy, "eats" space without practical benefits, communications are closed, and to provide access to them, you need to leave revision hatches. The same construction of monolithic podium-rapy and dirty work.
Not very common, but less troublesome-based design, made by "dry" technology. No need to breed dirt, wait for the screed, IT.D. Working on this method, a layer of clay (or any other material, "crumbs") falls asleep at the base), the dry floors of Knauf (Germany) are placed on it, and then produce finishing finish.
The podium (but not very hard) can be equipped with a loggia attached to the main premises - because it should be well insulated. As a result, the new floor will be higher than the floor level of the adjacent room.
For insulation, either electric mats are used or extruded polystyrene foam 30-50mm thick, which is attached to "liquid nails". The sheets are placed with the gaps of 10mm, then the gaps are properly, and as a result, the monolithic layer of the insulation is obtained, on top of which they make a screed (cement or polymer self-leveling) thickness of about 30mm. The interim road grid is placed for strength. "Chernovaya" floor cover with linoleum, parquet, parquet board, laminate, carpet, tiled IT.D.
Sometimes a horizontal type convector connected to the heating network is installed in the thicker of the podium. However, this causes a lot of difficulties in coordination.
E. Bychkov
Photo A. Ridalova Podiums are appropriate in cases where it is necessary to hide the technological equipment. They are justified only in disproportional zones. It is not necessary to zonate the space using the podium - for this there are other techniques, such as different flooring, a contrasting floor pattern.
The podium woven room is better not to set it is attempting. Their construction is permissible, if anything else cannot be summarized.
Understandments are also undesirable, but in the non-voluntary, for example, in Erker, Winter Garden, a seating area of the window IT.D., Please.
Stage finish requires special accuracy and professionalism. It is possible to use anti-slip elements, metal layouts. The junction is damaged pretty quickly, so its decoration needs to be paid to high attention.
My opinion is: if there is no particular need, it is better not to use podiums.
Yulia Akatina, Architect Designer of the Architectural and Construction Company "Dipris"
According to designer
Using the podium, you can adjust the unsuccessful proportions of the room. For example, a towering construction, built between long walls, is too narrow and elongated, will make harmonious. Astandal Square Room will give the dynamism of the corner podium. Of course, the height of the ceilings should be sufficient. The logic of the use of decorative podium is subordinate exclusively to the designer's plan corresponding to the desire of the user.
However, artificially introduced in the interior design, resembling a stage platform, should not look like a random element. Therefore, conditionally sharing the extensive space on the functional zones, simultaneously use several plastic receptions: for example, lifting the kitchen on the stage, it is used to enhance the effect of the effect, which repeats the podium contours. Assue is a queue, the ceiling line is highlighted by light, the light is played with light. Of course, much attention is paid to the color scheme and finishing materials. In a word, with such structures you need to be able to work, competently defining their role and place in the house, commemoracing the height of the podium with the height of the ceilings, correlating the proportion and dimensions of the objects that will be made on the "scene", with the size of those that will be lower. Consider: Objects located above are perceived as more significant dominant in the interior.
You can easily raise on the home "scene" anything: a library, an office study, a dressing room, a winter garden, a recreation area, an aquatic system.
The germination design is often addressed when the home theater is arranged. Since the main "resonators" are the ceiling and the floor, then in the event that a separate room is highlighted for the cinema, it is desirable to raise the technique to the podium, which occupies 25-30% of the total area, 100-200 mm above the main level.
The element of the interior, allowing to solve several designer tasks at once. It functionally divides the room into two zones, can serve as a cozy place to relax (carpets, pillows). On the podium, it is not bad to organize the original beds, so he will successfully replace the sleeping place (for example, in niche). The podium needs to be raised to the height or one step (100-150mm), or beds (for a bed or chil-out). For the first case, the podium serves technical tasks: inside it is hidden flexible wiring, junction boxes, etc. In the second podium, it is appropriate to make retractable boxes for storing the rail system or on the rollers. This is an excellent option for small-sized apartment. The decision to build a multi-level floor in children needs to be taken with caution. If the family is small children, it is better not to experiment. Avot to the girl-teenage girl podium will fit perfectly. This help you can make a cozy niche for girlfriends with girlfriends. Here are appropriate woven blankets and pillows in the style of patchwork, and a nicious panels are used for the walls for the walls. The most suitable material for the manufacture of frame podium-natural wood. Retractable boxes are also better to order not from the organity, but from an array or plywood.
Tatyana Filina, Designer of the Center for Interior Solutions (Line Combination)
The floor in the "Citled Type Cinema" is built of severe non-visible materials having a large mass. The design may consist of a monolithic cement screed (a mixture of cement and sand in the proportion of 1: 1) with a thickness of 100-150mm, laid on the base of the floor through the soundproofing roller material (for example, "shumnet-100") to 5mm thick. Such a design, in addition to the implementation of vibration insulation, will reduce the amplitude of resonances. From above, the podium is rich in iron, and then covered with decorative carpet. If you are equipping a home theater in the open space, then at least minimal sound insulation can be provided by lifting the equipment on the frame podium with a layer of glass gambles inside.
You can make a "sandwich" and according to such a scheme: to cover the screed with several sheets of thick rubber, then set the lags and flood the space between them with a granite crumb in the small sand (layer of 50-70 mm). Such a "pillow" will have a good damping effect.
Designer podiums, as a rule, are frame structures. The main task that needs to be solved during their erection is to ensure stiffness and sound insulation. To give the design stiffness, it is done on the lags with a 300-600mm installation step, they are placed on them, OSB-plates, GWL (drying sheets) or blackboard. At the same time, sheets are laying in two layers, with the shift of the upper elements relative to the lower. Between the sheets, leave the seams to compensate for linear deformations and the charges when changing the temperature and humid regime in the room. Then the finish coating is laid.
The most rigid podiums are at the heart of a metal frame (for example, from channels), on which the draft flooring and finishing coating are mounted on top. The spatial-frame design becomes tight due to diagonal and transverse ligaments (separate ligaments are mounted with each other bolted joints and are attached to the racks of construction swivel locks).
When building a frame podium, it is recommended to make an indentation from the wall. If the eases are wooden, the so-called thermal gasket with a thickness of 10 mm is mounted between the wall and design.
The height of the decorative podium is usually 100-200mm. But in the principle of any restrictions in height. The main thing is that users do not have discomfort. However, if the floor level difference is more than 100-150mm (the height of the stairs stage), you will have to add steps.
According to the rules of security
B.Colomayichenko
Photo from Z.Ruzutdinova to take her life on the "scene", do not forget about some safety rules. If the podium turns out to be inappropriate height or in an inappropriate place, injuries cannot be avoided - especially for children and the elderly. However, too high design reduces the distance from the floor to the ceiling. As for the finish coating of the podium in the bathroom, and in the kitchen too, then, of course, the tile, mosaic, or porcelain stonewares should be with an anti-slip effect and without sharp edges. Inclages of tiles of leading manufacturers have special transition elements for finishing steps and ends.
"Walking" storage places
Perhaps the greatest advantage of the skeleton podium is the ability to practically dispose of emptiness inside the design, find a place to store things where it seems there is no and can not be.
Podiums, in the depths of which they hold bicycles, lounge chairs, skis, suitcases IT.P., - Alternative to the previously widespread meresers. The main thing is that there are convenient handles of the boxes, which, in turn, it is desirable to equip rollers or guides. Too long drawers do not make sense - how do you get to the back of the wall? But this is a completely appropriate option for long-term storage, such as winter clothes, sports equipment, books "on the gross", toys that your firstborn played and will play the second child when it is growing, IT.D. If you need to use such a wardrobe regularly, it is better to make drawers with a depth of no more than 1m, and the remaining space to take "recessed" storage systems, access to which is carried out on top. By the way, the Japanese do this, hiding in the drawers under the floor there are many useful things.
A multifunctional sleeping place is relevant in any apartment, not only in a small or one-room. If the podium is reserved under the sleeping place, then you need to take care of a comfortable mattress, better orthopedic. Another option is to organize a sleeping zone-podium penalty. Under it, there are a sleeping place on the rollers, and on the rest of the recreation, a wardrobe or a small working office: a table with a computer, a chair, shelves ... During the day, the bed can be adopted inside or partially. In the event, if you put the pillows on it, it will turn into a small comfortable sofa.
Web on the elevation put a working zone and a written desk with a personal computer. From the podium, a bed or storage boxes can be traveled. Or, on the contrary, they equip a sleeping place on top, and an intra-cabinet for toys, books, linen. In this case, you should not raise the children's bed very high. On the podium you can put the children's dressing room. If, for example, the height of the ceiling is 2.7 m, and the wardrobe is about 2m, then there will be enough space inside the podium. In the afternoon, you make the bed inward and release the place for exercise and games.
Spotlights and "Signal Lights"
Territory of relaxation
The word chill-out in conversational English means a relaxing rest, as well as the call to calm down, cool. The atmosphere of chil-outs in clubs usually has a relaxed idleness, flirting and trust communications. All the same podium Relax zone can be equipped at home, more to make it one of the most beloved corners.
The semi-light podium of the streamlined, round or rectangular shape will look good in the living room, the dining room, the office- wherever you take guests. This peculiar bed can be equipped with drawers. On such an elevation, it is always cozy, especially if you put it with a fluffy carpet and scatter soft ornamental pillows and rollers on it, it turns out a chil-out in oriental style. Such a low table for a tea ceremony will complement, a few shelves for loved souvenirs, magazines and books. The Agranitsa of Chil-Auta will give a light curtain that turns the podium in the semblance of the tent.
The editors thanks the architectural and design firms "Dipris", "Leve-Artis" for help in preparing the material.