Irina Vopshinova: “We prefer to work in a modern style. In the courtyard of the XXI century, the age of information technology, the Internet. The organization of space and even the very understanding of the living environment are gradually changing. Computer and electronic storage systems replace libraries, cabinets in their traditional sense, reducing the actual space to nothing. The usual division into rooms is replaced by new, sometimes quite unexpected ways of organization, incompatible volumes at first glance are combined into one whole, it becomes everyday. Architecture should adequately reflect the realities of life, follow them, and it is better to go forward and be ahead of events. ”

Customers set an unusual task for the authors — to create an interior-spa in the format of a city apartment. “The owners are a young married couple with three children, both businessmen, go in for sports and spend a lot of time on active rest,” Yuri says. They decided not to waste time on the way to the salon or gym, creating more comfortable and modern conditions at home. Customers bought next to, next to their main apartment, another, two-level, located on the 25th floor of the building in the center of Perm, and turned it into a full-fledged home complex, which has everything to relax and rejuvenate after a hard day , go in for sports, take guests, arrange a family celebration or a party, celebrate a birthday with your family and friends. This is not the main housing, so we could experiment and tried to create an interior that goes beyond the traditional concept of a spa as something out of town, close to nature, where there is a lot of wood and natural stone. ”

The first floor is an active leisure zone. Here you can play table tennis, run on the treadmill or work out on the simulators. For children, the architects equipped the dance floor using a non-slip floor covering, mirrors and a ballet machine. The second level is the territory of relaxation and health procedures. In addition to the sauna, hammam, mini-pool, there is a massage room and even a waterbed. Despite the functional purpose, the apartment is completely autonomous. In case relatives or friends stay away, the authors have provided a living area that includes a bedroom, a kitchen, a spacious dressing room and bathrooms.

The character of the interior is sharp, modern, to become the owners. Free dynamic layout, broken lines, three-dimensional structures, similar to giant blocks of ice, complex lighting system. “When we discussed the project with customers, we decided to make the interior as up-to-date as possible,” Yuri continues. “It should have been something enchanting and unexpected. The image was built on such epithets as "snow", "ice", "polar", "white", "crystalline". Hence the shape of iceberg walls in which furniture systems are integrated, a snow-white seamless floor that looks monolithic and whole, like an endless snowy field, luminaires embedded flush with the ceiling surface, creating a chaotic and irregular row. The entire interior is designed in white, but due to the multicolored backlighting, refracted in glossy faces and numerous mirrors, the effect of aurora borealis is created, and the space easily changes mood. ”

Furniture in this volume plays an important role. These are not even objects in their standard sense, but rather furniture-transformer, mobile, folding, changing the configuration and function in general. The architects picked up the factory-made things that fit the interior in spirit, and some designed it specially. Only one bed — a bar counter that is worth it or a light, openwork, weightless staircase. “It's great that the customers were open to everything new, went beyond the ordinary and gave us the opportunity to work on this interior,” Yury summarizes. “They are very pleased with the result, and now we are working on a new project. I hope it will be even more interesting ... "