two-level penthouse with a total area of ​​240 m2 (Moscow) Andrey Abdulatipov, Natalia Kuznetsova

Passing the gallery

A photo: Kirill Ovchinnikov

Stylist: Alexey Onishchenko

Text: Danila Gulyaev

Model: Anton Prostiakov

Architect: Andrey Abdutalipov, Natalia Kuznetsova

Magazine: N4 (93) 2005

Moscow is not a flawless city, but beautiful, especially if you look at it from the 17th floor. A truly dizzying perspective opens from here, from such a distance the city is perceived as a monumental holographic landscape. Architects Andrei Abdulatipov and Natalia Kuznetsova made this landscape an important part of their penthouse project in a new high-rise on Leningradsky Avenue. The whimsical behavior of natural lighting can not reproduce any one of the most complex lighting system. Through the panoramic windows of the penthouse the sun is shining during the day, every minute in different ways, and after sunset the lights of the night metropolis, the spectacle of which is so much used in movies and videos. The architects used this effect one hundred percent, having built the apartment as a gallery, deployed along the windows, which in this penthouse replace the external walls. Everything else in the project is white, so the metaphor of this apartment as a screen suggests itself. The authors of the project put such an ideology into their work: the interior should not be decoration and decoration, it should be a clean canvas, with strokes applied to the daily life of its inhabitants. The interior in this case is made simple and transparent, so that in the foreground are the person and his city, and not the entourage. Moreover, this concept is almost perfectly embodied in the specifics of the project. The total whiteness of the situation is colored by the color of the things that the tenant uses in everyday life, and these things here have a temporary residence permit, only for the period of their use. In the interior, in the literal sense there is nothing superfluous, and the atmosphere is so Spartan that it is fitting to call it luxurious in the most modern sense of the word. Simplicity and brevity, in fact, required complex design solutions and a long study - the apartment was built a year and a half. Under the whiteness of the walls here is hidden everything that could disturb the purity of the forms. The heating system is built into the floor, and ventilation and lighting equipment - in the ceiling. Several dressing rooms, large closets in the hallway, a library - all this is hidden behind the flawless walls. The living rooms are shaped like a cube: the same in length, width and height. Cubes of rooms are combined with "tape" spaces - a narrow long gallery along the window and the same kitchen and dressing rooms. Due to this, the space of the apartment resembles a labyrinth, which is especially emphasized by the lack of doors in all rooms except toilets. This interior could be called a loft, because, despite the clear zoning, all the rooms here are open. And the natural light from the windows penetrates all corners of the apartment, refracting beautifully and creating an interesting game with a shadow.Natalia Kuznetsova: "The philosophy of the project is a refusal to create illusions, to play some kind of performance with the help of excess entourage. We work with space, with functionality. Everything in our project is simple: just walls, just floor ... his conditions to man, and man filled the space. "