Kiev apartment with a total area of ​​125 m2 Elena Netudykhata

Passing the gallery

A photo: Karen Manko

Interview prepared: Anna Nikitina

Architect: Elena Netudykhata

Magazine: (Pumping)

When the author of the project, Elena Netudykhata, says: “I walked arm in arm with the soul of the house,” for some reason you believe that everything was just that. The architect talks about the reverent relationship with the space of this apartment. Each interior is a story of relationships: the environment and the home, the architect and the space. Fortunately, there are spaces that immediately take you, are easy to give in to your decisions, participate in experiments. With this apartment I have developed just such a relationship. In general, I am convinced that the house is an animated object. The windows of this apartment overlook the church of St. Sophia, and it certainly serves as a spiritual and aesthetic center of attraction. But I did not draw parallels in the interior with Old Russian art. First, customers like minimalism. Secondly, the temple is a self-sufficient object; It affects the attitude of people even as a view from the windows. According to realtors, this view partly compensates for the shortcomings of the dwelling. I, as the author of the interior, tried to fix them with the help of architectural and decorative means. In the part farthest from the entrance, I made a bedroom, isolating it from the open space of the living room, dining room and kitchen (and thus shortening it somewhat). To break it in the middle, I used a carrier column between the living room and the dining room, the bar counter was spread parallel to the corridor. In general, I tried to give the space a fundamentally new dynamics conforming to the lives of the owners (and they are highly energetic people). And here one of the main methods was the decorative, sculptural light. The furniture is illuminated so that it seems to float separately from the walls, glass doors visually pushing the space. Ceramic floor glares, plaster gently glowing with mother of pearl. In my understanding, dynamism is unthinkable without brightness (examples are “Ferrari”, Matisse's color palette). Therefore, bright furniture from WITTMANN and still-life in the spirit of the Fauves became the final touches of the dynamic space. "Elena Netudykhata:“I believe that a special relationship develops between the architect and his object. Ideally, of course. An apartment in Kiev, in a house overlooking the church of Saint Sophia, became for me such an ideal object. - individuality, the soul of the house. "