Architect Dmitry Bykov thinks that one cannot tell about an apartment or house project, it can only be shown. Display in the form of plans, drawings, color sketches and, finally, photos. This statement is true with respect to the new work of the architectural bureau. "DIA" - Moscow apartment on Ostozhenka. The customer’s wishes here were extremely simple: a complete set of rooms - a living room with a dining area, a cinema hall, a bedroom with a dressing room, a bathroom, a nursery with a working area and a seating area, a kitchen, a hallway. The task of the architect was to create a unique image for these premises.

"In this case, when designing, it was about making the space concise by means of expression," comments Dmitry. interconnected, one viewed from the other. " Enfilade - it is always advantageous. When you enter such an apartment, you will have an exciting prospect of several rooms placed in series, moving into one another. In addition, the suite is a pledge of space. Even if the spaces themselves are small, such an organization system will create a sense of infinity of movement. "All this needed to be highlighted and emphasized, - says Dmitry Bykov. - To do this, they invented original dark wood frames (mostly wenge), which mark the boundaries between the rooms. In contrast, we covered the walls and part of the partitions with light plaster with a glossy surface effect.

“We decided to support the reception with frames in a peculiar composition of the floors - this is another feature of our project,” Dmitry continues. “There are two types of floors. In the entrance hall and the kitchen there is white ceramic granite. In the rest of the enfilade there is a dark oak. oak floors are the same, so the transition between them is practically unreadable. " So it turns out "cosmic", as in the planetarium, the effect of flowing one space into another according to the principle of a kind of circulation - light, dark, light again, dark again ... It was this principle that was the basis of this project. He adhered to and in the selection of furniture. "The customer took an active part here," says Dmitry. In addition, the furniture in many rooms, for example in the children's room and the hallway, was made according to the sketches of architects. Not to mention the numerous shelves that are mounted on the frames. Thanks to these multifunctional structures, it is possible to dispense with cabinets, racks, libraries cluttering the space. Talking about style in this case may seem to some extent meaningless - everything becomes so obvious when you first look at the apartment. "If you want, it's just minimalism," - says the author of the project. Pure forms, simple but extremely expressive combinations - all this brings to mind the spatial and plastic experiments of the 20-30s of the XX century. Indeed, this architecture is rather from there.

Dmitry Bykov: "Our architectural bureau is mainly engaged in designing private housing. I can’t say that I prefer exceptionally strict and laconic interiors, like this one. But I’m not always interested in working with projects in the spirit of the classics. doing classics. We call them traditional architects. I choose diversity. "