Lifestyle

apartment of 210 m2

Passing the gallery

Text: Olga Korotkova

A photo: Sergey Morgunov

Project author: Armen Melkonian

Architect: Ruzanna Hovhannisyan

Magazine: N10 (143) 2009

The architect received the order to fully make the apartment - from scratch. Customers expressed their wishes in the most general form, foggy: we, they say, like the modern in character interior, discreet, not too glamorous, but not too cold and official

Armen Melkonian began to create an image of the interior based on the wishes of the owners - a young married couple. And then to the development of the floor plan and the elaboration of specific "nodes" - colors, materials, furniture, light. The image has developed integral, easy, warm. The architect imagined free airspace, loosely decorated, with the minimum - only necessary - amount of furniture. Flowing spaces in the public zone, not fenced off from each other by walls - this principle was part of the structure of the artistic image.

The apartment in the plan is similar to a milk bottle with a wide neck. The entrance to the apartment is in the narrowing part (just where the "neck"); the only wall where there are windows is directly opposite. That is, a decent distance must be walked from the entrance to the nearest window - the entire apartment. This circumstance determined the layout. The “path” from the door to the window became the axis of space. In the center of the axis is a dining room, visually fenced off from the hall by an onyx screen with a spectacular lighting. The living room is arranged by the window - with a large soft sofa, a TV and a fireplace.

The rest of the (private and service) premises the architect arranged symmetrically - to the right and left of the central axis. The office and bedroom - rooms where daylight is needed - are on the windows, and the kitchen, bathroom, toilet, guest bathroom, laundry room and dressing room are stretched along the walls, where windows are not provided. In this case, the architect turned the minus of the original layout into dignity - a comfortable and logical “cutting” of the space into rooms.

Elegant and solemn decisions were used in the decor: onyx wall panel, gold potal (wall at the entrance), a striking marble pattern in the bathroom. At the same time, these bright luxurious moments are balanced by the soft color gamut of the interior, calm, respectable forms of furniture, laconic furnishings.

Armen Melkonian: "Free-type planning, as stated in the documentation, is only partly freedom. Only one wall with windows, carrying columns almost in the middle of the space, mines for communications ... To plan premises for a full-fledged family life, to avoid the lack of natural light - such tasks have come before me in this project "

LEAVE ANSWER