A small one-room apartment with a total area of 40.2 m2 in a typical panel house designed for one person.
Each of us has periods when you want to be alone, live a completely independent and independent life. Only, alas, not everyone can afford it. But suppose, the long-awaited opportunity introduced itself. And the question immediately arises: how to create a completely unusual, unique housing with minimal means?
Our story is about such an experiment. Thanks to the ingenuity of the architects and the determination of the customer, a small one-room apartment in a typical house has turned into a very original dwelling. The interior is designed for one person. In an effort to identify the principles of this project, the architects called it "alone Sovsemi."
The customer addressed the architects Catherine Koltsova and Catherine Smetanina asking for it a modern, bright multifunctional apartment. At the same time, the financial framework was delineated extremely rigidly: the owner immediately indicated the amount to exceed which it was impossible.
Working out the initial design options (quite a lot), architects, naturally, were guided by the style of the owner's life of the apartment. The young owner required a comfortable home suitable for one or two. You could often receive guests in it and convenience.
Since the apartment area is very small - only 40m2, the interior decided to build on the principle of a comfortable hotel room. There is a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bedroom, a bathroom, an entrance hall, - And the time is not worth anything superfluous. Architects immediately understood that it was not worth sharing a small space for individual rooms, and offered to the customer several options for free planning. True, it was necessary to carry all the partitions, but the skeleton structure of the house made it possible to do this without much difficulty.
A variety of ways to decorating communication risers have become a constant topic of our heading. A widespread problem is complemented by non-reliable fantasy of architects. We again and again return to solving this task.
The location of the riser in the space of the apartment can with confidence to be called the determining redevelopment factor. How will this important element of the interior be found? Does the shelves attach to it, do they bother with mirror panels, or the designer imagination turns it into an abstract sculpture? Often, it is possible to find such an interesting and relevant decision that behind the exterior finish and you will not recognize the banal bunch of pipes.
In this case, the sewage risker, which used to be held in the wall between the pantry and the kitchen, was on the border of the living room and the hallway. Thus, a certain distinguishing element suggested itself. The only condition was its delicate inclusion in the overall drawing of the interior. The apack space was conceived as one, the partition was not high, it was not possible. The yarhitectors came up with a combination of a round column, like growing from the wall, with low, ellipsed in terms of a volume resembling the nose of the ship. The carpet of the living room is separated from the ceramic tiles of the hallway with a wavy line by lining column. Hanging shelf can be put any little things. In the same case, an exquisite lamp was put on her, a borderline beacon, thus the created masterpiece.
The owner of the apartment most liked the most unusual option in which the premises were included in the total volume, usually remaining more or less isolated, the bedroom and the bathroom. It turned out that the double bed is separated from the rest of the space only by a small partition, and the bath is freely visible from almost anywhere in the apartment. Agree, the course is quite bold. But, the sorcement side is quite logical: if one person lives in the house, who can prevent him from taking a bath right in the living room? Or sleep, not trying to burn out from the front premises? The architects only brought to the logical completion of the concept of "alone with everyone".
Almost in the center of the space formed after the demolition of the inner walls of the space, architects set a low (misunderstanding) semicircular score-partition. Before it was located a sofa with a coffee table, creating a living area. The location is already mentioned double bed, it is understandable, a bedroom. Vuglu at the window arose a mini-dining room-round table with chairs. More or less isolated made only the kitchen, although this small room is associated with a living room with a wide opening. At the entrance to the apartment there was a compact entrance hall, limited to the kitchen wall. On the other side of the kitchen it works a bathroom.
Since the volume of the apartment is very small, it had to somehow increase, at least visually. Architects considered this task very important and approached its solution from different sides. They were the main planning axis on the diagonal of the common space, emphasizing its elliptic pattern of the floor. That was the first step towards the visual increase in volume.
Another way to push the boundaries was the maximum saturation of the interior with bright stains. A complex pattern of a floor with multi-colored inserts, colorful furniture upholstery, lamps, small objects of saturated tones, all this, on the thought of the authors, should complicate, enrich the space. ASSO, on a subjective feeling, and increase.
In a certain sense, sunlight came to the rescue. The living area, located in the brightest part of the apartment, seems more spacious than in fact. The light, pouring from the windows, does not meet any obstacles on its path and freely penetrates into secluded corners. The same part of the apartment where the insolation was worse, used under auxiliary premises - an entrance hall, kitchen, bathroom. A more clearly separation of the space on the living and functional zone is the 15-centimeter ceiling drop. Over the auxiliary premises it is lower, and ventilation boxes and electric separation are hidden in the resulting cavity.
Unlike sewage where water flows in itself and only down, it is under pressure in the plumbing and heating tubes. That is why changing the configuration of these pipes capabilities of the water from them still sticks. But here you need to know the measure of water and the heating system are calculated on certain indicators of the length and cross section of pipes.
Such a decisive redevelopment certainly had to entail some problems. First of all, they concerned communication risers. The escape difficulty arose with a coated towel rail. As for the purpose, this riser passed exactly where the luxurious round bath should have occurred on the project (and, that funny, it fell literally to her center). The problem was solved simply: on the floor and the ceiling was carried out extra knee, and the vertical part of the pipe was removed into the wall. A small lifting of the floor and the suspended ceiling was hidden all the wiring. Instead of the old heated towel rail, installed a new, electric, working at the request of the owner and eliminating the likelihood of leakage.
All partitions, including semicircular elements, were erected from bricks. It turns out that it is suitable for such purposes at no less than plasterboard, there would be professional hands.
The joining of the loggia would noticeably increase the apartment area, but from this measure they refused to financial reasons (as we said, architects were put in a very hard monetary framework). Therefore, limited to the installation of plastic double-glazed windows and wall decoration by plastic panels. The second loggia has built-in wardrobes.
By the way, the architects have withstood the financial conditions set up to the end, which is rather an exception than the rule. One square meter of the square, taking into account the design, construction and materials, cost the customer at $ 270.
The inclusion of the bath in the living room space is possible only in the presence of a good exhaust, guaranteed irrigible air. Otherwise, the furniture in the room will inevitably dance and deteriorate. There is a powerful fan to solve this problem in the ventilation channel.
But the hard savings regime did not prevent the authors of the project to create a spectacular, comfortable, fully corresponding to the wishes of the owner interior. The ceiling in the main part of the apartment was left smooth and white, reviving only with built-in luminaires. The walls have stood in three colors - white, blue and purple (using Tikkurila paints). The bright color is present both in the complex floor pattern, and in the finish of various interior elements: ventucleobs, furniture, curtains, mosaic walls of the bathroom. Against this background, the main art object of the apartment is especially impressive, a dazzling orange shirma-partition. Located in the very center of space, it became the main node in the crystal lattice of the interior. The orange spot is not left alone, it was added by several more accents of the same color: the upholstery of the chairs, ceramic front and separate floor tiles in the kitchen.
Of the practical considerations in the flooring, the most functional materials - ceramic tiles were used where a wet cleaning is required (inexpensive RAL tile), and carpet in the recreation area. The practical approach is applied in the selection of furniture. Gostina put the sofa Insa and the dining group of Calligaris, the rest of the situation, some lamps and accessories purchased in the IKEA store.
Money theme is one of the most difficult at the repair and reconstruction of apartments. The usual situation looks like this: the customer first establishes the financial framework for which it is neither. Noerchitectors offer a wide variety of project options, and customer, choosing materials and equipment, so much to taste that he himself exceeds the initial norm. Curvature repairs poured into completely different money, but who is to blame the question of the controversial
The kitchen, located literally in a few meters, turned out to be nevertheless absolutely full. The thoughtful layout of furniture and equipment allowed to fit here washing, cabinets, electric stove, extractor, washing machine with front load, microwave. The mistake of the owner, the refrigerator settled not in the kitchen, but in the living room, next to the table. Since such household appliances have long switched to the category of stylish interior elements, it does not spoil the room at all. But the advantages of such a decision to have to get a need for a snack or a bottle, do not have to leave the living room.
Summing up all these small discoveries, we can say that the architects managed to create exactly the model of the house, which is most suitable for the lifestyle of its owner. The apartment for one person is the whole science. Joined the art. Implemented, I want to add, in the extremely rigid framework.
The editors warns that in accordance with the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, the coordination of the conducted reorganization and redevelopment is required.
Architect: Ekaterina Koltsova
Architect: Ekaterina Smetanin
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