apartment with a total area of ​​180 m2 Boris Uborevich-Borovsky, Peter Zaitsev, Alexei Nikolashin Modern interior styling of the apartment. Underlined functionality, clarity and conciseness of visual images, strict lines and an abundance of "air"

Passing the gallery

A photo: Zinon Rasudinov

Text: Lada Nikolaeva

Architect: Petr Zaitsev, Alexey Nikolashin, Boris Uborevich-Borovsky

Magazine: 52 (2001)

The underlined functionality, clarity and conciseness of visual images, strict lines and abundance of “air” are today the main principles in the design of a house. It would seem that the interior, sustained in this "utilitarian" style, should give the impression of a cold, lifeless space, devoid of a living feeling - but this is not at all the case. Because such an interior is saturated with an atmosphere of a different kind than comfort and homely warmth in the traditional sense - the energy of pure thought. The workshop of Boris Uborevich-Borovsky has considerable experience in the creation of so-called. intellectual interior. And the desire of the customer - to get an ultramodern apartment - was the impetus for the realization of the project, the result of which we can now appreciate. In the lobby appeared fantastic lights, pouring from the ceiling like an unearthly light. In a purely modern interior style, in which the apartment is sustained, there are also grotesquely beaten elements of "antiquity" ("historicisms" are included in the project at the insistence of the customers themselves). The columns are at the same time a style game, and a detail that truly reminds one of the past, of the continuity of traditions, of long past times. The color range of the finish is more to minimalism than to high flow with its hard contrasts. The apartment is made by architects in sober colors. The authors are sure that where the form works, the color is not needed. Having placed a large number of shapes into the internal space, the authors made sure that they were well read. The rule of reading here is the absence of sharp color spots, which can either distort the shape or distract attention. The basis was taken from the natural color of the columns and stone: white, beige, gray. In each room, the walls are painted in different colors, but they are chosen in such a way that creates the illusion of a monochrome surface. It is nuances that add expressiveness to the plasticity of volumes. The architects abandoned the color of the tree, using it only where it was impossible to do without it: for it is believed that the floor should be wooden, so that in modern interiors it continues to fulfill its traditional role. The color of the tree is naturally supported both by the curtains in the design of the windows, and by the baseboards, and by the expressive detail in the hall (column-tree), but there are no other elements made of wood and retaining their natural color of the tree - and this is in line with the basic concept. The lights in the lobby are partly made of wood, but they are also painted in a metallic color, organic for this apartment, one of the main ones in the modern interior. The idea underlying the design of the apartment is maximum air, minimum furniture and the decor itself. This position is due to the fact that it is an architectural interior, built from a single volume, a single structure. It does not require additional details, its form is self-sufficient. In this case, of course, the inner space of the house is unthinkable without the inner space of the soul - the one who will live here. This was meant by the architects at the very beginning, when it was decided to create this “thinking world”.