Practicality as a principle

Architectural ideas that allow you to beat almost immutable bearing structures (walls and columns) and communication pipes.

The words "practical journal" do not accidentally stand on our cover. The question is that there is practicality in relation to the heading "Piggy of Ideas"? Each of its plots is the result of the coincidence of many factors. The wishes of the customer, the creative individuality of the designer, various constructive and technological difficulties - everything is overpanded, as in the crucible, and the probability of repetition of these components is zero. Our task is to give the most complete information: photos, explanations, plans, in words, everything that will help to figure out and find a way to apply the best in practice.

Finishing touch

Architect: Mikhail Tereshchenko

Photo: Mikhail Stepanov

What determination suggests when mentioning the word "entrance hall"? Of course, "close". Vassociative row these concepts stand nearby. Life in typical apartments taught us to many and, alas, not always pleasant traditions. And the dark, close hallway one of them. Is it possible to change something? You can even need.

Logic suggests that the formal increase in the area of ​​the hallway at the expense of other premises (for example, kitchen) is impractical. Exit: Threaten all as possible all the possibilities of the available area and using the exhaust design techniques to organize a comfortable space.

The combination of benefit and beauty can be called a solution, on the basis of which all old partitions broke and created a new spatial system. The hallway of the trapezoid form is expanding to the entrance door and the built-in closet, so that the guests who came can calmly, not pursuer, change clothes. The built-in wardrobe is formed by a semicircular wall between the hallway and the living room (the cores of the living room elegant bending of the wall emphasize the wallpaper with vertical stripes). A part of the wall between the closet and the door in the living room is made of glass blocks. This is not so much of aesthetic considerations as for additional lighting by the hallway daylight. Inconale, the final barcode: the wall of glass blocks complement the glass shelves (the rod fasteners are placed in the wall and in the seams between blocks). The outline of the shelves repeats the radius of the curvature of the wall.

Between the wall and column

Architect: Sergey Zaitsev ("Remstroyservis")

Photo: Mikhail Stepanov

Bearing columns, in contrast to bearing walls, provide architects with great opportunities when making changes to the planning of repaired apartments. Often, it is not necessary to significantly change the structure of the space, it is enough to move the partitions a little, remove unnecessary walls and the door - aimization is changing, as a magic wand.

Move and bevelled under 45 walls of the bathroom and bedrooms turned a close corridor into an interesting, filled with light and air space. Directly from the hallway overlooking the living room. A complex zigzag spatial move is emphasized by broken lines of a liner drywall ceiling with built-in point luminaires. There were small opening and niches between the new partitions and the supporting columns and set up glass shelves for souvenirs or books. The glass organically supplemented the found volume-spatial solution.

Glass shelves, notice, are not the same in shape. They were made according to the sketches of the architect in the cabin "Mirror" from the glass thickness of 8mm. This spectacular and simple designer technique can use, changing the location and outlines of the shelves to your taste.

Cockling and its consequences

Architect: Olga Lapina

Photo: Mikhail Stepanov

The modern level of development of construction technologies in our country is still far from perfection. Establishment This concerns the ways to install communications. The location of the bathrooms and kitchens regarding the risers often significantly complicates the reconstruction of the apartments both in new buildings and in the houses of the Old Fund. But it also pursues architects on original ideas.

The layout of a four-room apartment in the Stalin-house house was difficult to call particularly outstanding: so clapped and tested were bathroom and bathroom with an excessive depth of residential rooms. The decision to make a corridor along the apartment axis and position along it to the right of the residential and left of economic and utility rooms, it was assumed to change the toilet and the kitchen, a storage room and a bathroom, a kitchen and a dining room. So radical rearrangements required significant work on the transfer of communications, however, in one case, thanks to the designer found by the designer, the riser remained at the same place. Almost in the middle of the opening between the kitchen and the dining room water pipes and the gas pipes were sewn into the drywall and turned into an elegant column between the two seedlings. The motif of the semi-colon and gentle arches was repeated several times during the design of door and interior openings and became one of the most expressive elements of the interior. The column itself, complemented by a niche with illumination and a bar table, serves as an ideal illustration of the idea that decishes several diverse tasks.

Transparent among multicolored

Designers: Olga Sharapova, Sergey Alahverda

Photo: Mikhail Stepanov

The task of increasing the area of ​​the hallway is not necessary, if the apartment (perhaps in the past communal) has such a rarity as the hall. Just it is necessary to make a business card of the whole apartment. The complexity in this case is to need to focus on the doorway in the living room. Multicolored walls, a multi-level ceiling with backlighting, all this would be more than enough, but after all, the door to the bedroom involves a calm solution ... helped the carrier column, standing as it were on the border between the Hall and the living room. By adding a pilast to a pilaser and filling the resulting niche with glass shelves (6mm glass thickness), designers created a new composite axis of space. The sparkling edges of transparent glass shelves with numerous funny baubles and souvenirs have given even greater bellivity and festive interior.

So it turned out something average between the grandmother shelf, the peps-cola jar and a glass slide from the Russian Diamond Fund.

Having done a circle ...

Architect: Marina Bashenkova

Photo: Mikhail Stepanov

You can already consider the generally accepted principle of improving the planning of the apartment due to the demolition of the partition between the living room and the kitchen. And it's not so much in the informality of this designer reception, but in normal everyday logic. Family life is usually concentrated in the living room, and every time crossing a few "borders" to bring a cup of coffee, quite uncomfortable.

If the kitchen from the living room separates only the partition, make in it any width of the opening of the equipment and several days. It is much more difficult to solve the problem with the bearing wall. In this case, it is necessary to contact the designer: only the calculation will allow you to properly determine the width, place and configuration of the future opening. An excellent example serves as an apartment, in the design of which the theme of the circle has repeatedly repeated, and therefore the opening of the kitchen to the common room decided to make the same perfect form. Thus, it was possible not only to achieve a functional, but decorative effect, so expressive and self-sufficient circle in the interior.