Moscow apartment with a total area of ​​110 m2 Sergey Achkasov, Vladimir Varganov, Mikhail Zaslavsky

Passing the gallery

Text: Olga Vologdina

A photo: Alexander Kamachkin

Architect: Sergey Achkasov, Vladimir Varganov, Mikhail Zaslavsky

Builder: Nikolay Metelkin, Vladimir Veretin

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The discussion about the exhaustion of ideas is not new. Disputes around one of the main issues flare up from time to time with a new force. The absence of a plot, of an original ideological basis is for the time being little demanded forms of presenting "material." And yet the situation is gradually changing. Architectural "underground" trend gets the status of a legitimate direction. And the matter is not only in the postmodern hobby that is significant for the present. Rather, in the possibilities that the so-called "unprincipled" technique opens The image of the apartment was created in an emotional tone, intuitively. Ideological "readings" for architect Sergey Achkasov were also memories of what he saw in his childhood, and the vivid impressions that struck today. However, the interior does not have a clear stylistic paradigm. Just as to call it eclectic will be wrong. In general, to give it any definition is to follow the wrong path, where, as is well known, the wrong premise leads to a false conclusion. For the interior ... contradictory, illogical and unpredictable. As the architect himself says: “The composition of this interior is more jazz than plot. Now everyone is so concerned with the“ plot ”construction, genre, style, and I personally fell in love with non-plotting. Context is great power ...” So, the first paradox. On the one hand, the initial parameters are the average zoning: the usual kitchen, dining room, living room and bedroom; relatively small area, the notorious "commandments" of the State Committee on Architecture and the increased interest of the customer to the quality of construction. In other words, the entire gentleman's set, the lack of which domestic interior designers rarely have to complain about. On the other hand, the labyrinth layout, the abstract color of the walls (in psychology gray "color" is often called a neutral, no-man's territory, a line separating opposites from each other) and the almost complete absence of ... doors. It seems to be a habit of living in small apartments with our compatriots in the blood. Otherwise, how can we explain the “division” of a space that is modest in size into even smaller zones? This is where incident number two is hidden. Of course, it was not nostalgia and love that dictated this architectural solution. The only desire to visually increase the footage. According to the author's concept, the space is organized according to the principle of a mixed maze. Already in the corridor, the declared planning composition begins to be realized: a miniature brick wall literally blocks the entrance to the living room and "spreads" movement in two directions. Each of which is further "refracted" with the help of partitions, which zone the room. Open doors are also involved in this logical field, so that the space remains one. The water motif in the interior is another full-fledged associative array. Corrugated surface of kitchen equipment - imitation of sea wave. A corner with a sea aquarium has become not only the compositional center of the apartment, but also the favorite resting place of the owner and his guests. Despite the inconsistency of the interior, the author did not leave in the postmodern direction. Here you will not find an exaggerated compilation, a refined compound of "antagonisms", grotesque irony. Although, perhaps, the technology of creating the image of the interior, in fact, is "intertextual", the architect only improvised ...Sergey Achkasov: "Sometimes I have a feeling of exhaustion of the situation. Everything, I tell myself, needs a qualitative leap. In the interior, paradoxically, you can easily become a slave to your own method. Switching to a new playing field is always saving. The last project for me was an experiment I called "interior in jazz processing".