Cafe "Akvaluks" in the car wash complex (Moscow) Evgeny Bogolei, Vartan Sarkisov

Passing the gallery

A photo: Vitaly Nefedov

Text: Alexey Zemskov

Architect: Evgeny Bogoley

Designer: Vartan Sarkisov

Magazine: N6 (62) 2002

The two-story building in Moscow on Aminevskoye shosse, 31, with five adjacent boxes, is a car wash complex, combined with a cafe. The style in which the interior is designed is constructivism with a clear industrial "accent". The dominant feature of the building was the glass atrium, which, according to the authors of the project, was designed to raise - in the literal and figurative sense - the status of the establishment. “Light is the head of everything” is the main motto embodied in the interior of the Aqualux Cafe. Everything: a transparent roof, and metal surfaces, and light panels, and sophisticated lamps - serves the sole purpose: to extract, refract and reflect a light wave. The light exudes a blue light from a building, the light comes from a central luminaire resembling a traffic light (TARGETTI), from halogen lights (MODULAR), designed to "highlight" the surface of the tables and bar counter without exposing the entire room. Light is refracted in the glass cone of the roof and on the facade. Light is reflected from the polished and matte metal surfaces of the structures, the perforated plane of the suspended ceiling and the steps of the spiral staircase. Posters with images of cars do not allow to forget among this light magnificence that was the reason for visiting village Z1 on Aminevskoye Highway. It was not by chance that among the regular visitors of the cafe (they are also motorists), there was a joke: “We stopped at a cafe - at the same time they washed the car”.