apartment with a total area of ​​170 m2 (St. Petersburg) Andrey Kabanov, Radik Yunusov

Passing the gallery

Text: Olga Gvozdeva

A photo: Peter Lebedev

Stylists: Tatyana Bakanova, Yulia Korzhova

Architect: Andrei Kabanov, Radik Yunusov

Builder: Sergey Avdeenko, Gennady Mordasov

Magazine: N6 (95) 2005

The new project of the St. Petersburg architect Andrei Kabanov differs extremely rational approach to the organization of space. It is equally static and dynamic, and deliberate rejection of decorative details is compensated by the clarity of the layout and the clear separation of the functional areas. The apartment is located on the top floor of a modern residential building, this circumstance was decisive for customers when it was purchased. The construction of the house does not have an attic floor, so in some of the rooms the height of the ceilings is unusually large, 6 meters, which made it possible to build a second tier. The ideal solution would be one large mezzanine, but because of the design of beams reinforced with trusses, this could not be done. As a result, instead of one large mezzanine, three small ones appeared: one in the children's room and two above the guest zone. On the mezzanine above the living room there are two stairs: one is straight, like a ship’s ladder, the other is a spiral one, with glass steps. In order to revive the dark hall, a round window was made in the blank wall to the right of the entrance. Between this porthole and a window with a small French balcony in the living room, an axis is formed, on which the guest area is strung. All of its components are united by a common color scheme: a creamy white shade predominates in the decoration of walls and the floor, lined with large ceramic tiles. Wenge wood serves as a color antithesis, from which all furniture in the apartment is made. The living room is divided into a fireplace area and a kitchen-dining room. The area of ​​this room is small, and in order to visually push its boundaries, traditional tile above the working area of ​​the kitchen was replaced with a mirror. A fireplace lined with light brown marble is perceived as the core of the living room, and a spiral staircase sets the vertical axis necessary for building the composition. All these techniques are repeated in the private zone, with the only difference that instead of a single space there is a standard set of rooms, including a hall, bedroom, bathroom and a nursery with a small entresol.Andrey Kabanov: "At the heart of this project there was no literary history. We always build on the functional scenario of the interior and the corresponding constructive solution. In this sense, the ideas of Russian constructivists are very close to us ..."