two-level apartment with a total area of ​​218 m2 Larisa Yakushenok, Olga Shkadenkova

Passing the gallery

A photo: Dmitry Livshits

Text: Nadezhda Nadimova

Architect: Larisa Yakushyonok

Designer: Olga Shkadenkova

Woodwork: Vyacheslav Avaev

Builder: Sergey Djiganov, Andrey Vernigor

Magazine: N5 (83) 2004

After a year of work on the creation of a “classic” interior, Larisa Yakushenok and Olga Shkadenkova are convinced: it’s not so easy to be a classic with you. Kindly giving the architect a rich arsenal of forms and motives, she dictates her own rules of the game.Rule one. Space Classic space is always normative. Even antiquity laid in him the idea of ​​logic and order, precluding any compositional arbitrariness. This spatial clarity, which is so necessary for classicism, has become a real headache for the authors of the project ... A two-level apartment to be reconstructed is located in the modern superstructure of the Stalinist five-story building. Rounded walls, falling roof, asymmetry of rooms - it was difficult to imagine something more distant from the classical ideal. “If we work in any other style, it would be easy to beat these architectural quirks,” says Larisa. “But to create a classic interior, it was necessary to completely“ redraw ”the given space.Rule two. Order Classicism is unthinkable without a warrant. The pillar and entablature are the basis of all classical architecture. According to Larisa and Olga, the order in their project partly plays the role of a classical scenery (it is worth adding - the scenery is very modernized). But the constructive meaning of the order has not been forgotten either. Confirmation of this - the design of the mezzanine in the living room, designed to accommodate paintings from the master's collection. All the columns of this unique portico are bearing, under their classic "appearance" there are hidden powerful metal I-beams that can withstand the weight of the ceiling.Rule three. Rhythm After making the necessary corrections to the spatial structure, it was necessary to combine all the elements of the interior (both constructive and decorative) into a single whole. In classicism, this unity is achieved through rhythm. For the space, organizing rhythmic "force", a kind of module, became precisely calculated pitch of columns and pilasters. Own, more frequent, rhythm "count off" and dark oak panels of a flight of stairs. In the upper tier, located at the living room level, they are turned into real exhibition shields for collection painting.Larisa Yakushenok: "The problem was not so much to show the trappings of" historical styles "how to properly organize the space itself, not stubbornly refused to obey the classical requirements."