Moscow apartment with a total area of ​​86 m2 Peter Kostelov

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A photo: Zinon Razutdinov, Alexei Naroditsky

Interview prepared: Nikolay Fedyanin

Stylist: Julia Krugovova

Architect: Peter Kostelov

Construction Manager: Andrey Koryanov

Floristics: Sergey Malyuchenko

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Ten years ago, when the magazine SALON-interior published the Moscow apartment of architect Peter Kostelov, it looked quite different. Then there was a spacious studio with a wide wooden podium from which guests descended into the study or kitchen. After the alteration, both the style and the layout of the apartment changed drastically. Everyone who sees photos of this interior has quite definite associations. To one, it resembles a garage, to another - the storage room of a factory, to the third - a submarine. And each summarizes: this is high-tech. Not there look, says the author of the project Peter Kostelov.SALON: What did not suit you in the former project? - Previously, there was a studio with an isolated bedroom, that is, formally, a two-room apartment. After the alteration, it became a four-room. Now there is a spacious living room, two offices, a bedroom, a kitchen unit, two bathrooms and two large dressing rooms. All this managed to fit on 86 square meters. meters away Bedroom and kitchen as much as possible shrank. Due to this, it was possible to increase the living room and win a place for a dressing room adjacent to the bedroom and other rooms. In addition, they lowered the level of the ceiling in the corridors, which made it possible to make a mezzanine over them. For me it was important to make people feel comfortable in this room so that they would not feel that they were embarrassing someone or disturbing someone. For example, the kitchen can be accessed from the living room and from the office.S: Which walls had to be removed and which ones to build? - I had to remove all the walls except the supporting column in the center of the living room. It turned out an open space with a column standing alone, and then this perimeter filled a single all-metal framework of steel pipes. This frame is not covered with finishing materials. If you divide the ceiling height (2.80 m) by 4, you get a step of 70 cm, which became a module for the spatial solution of the entire interior. For example, three times 70 each is 2 meters 10 cm - the height at which the mezzanine begins. Two times 70 each is the height of the wall cabinet in the hall, four times the shelving for books. In general, if you look closely, this step is visible everywhere. The frame can be filled with metal, wood, porcelain, cardboard - anything. But the basic idea will remain the same. It is important for me to create a single coordinate system, a kind of solid image. In this interior there is practically no what I call coloring, the main thing here is the extremely functional layout and the single principle of space construction.S: And the style? - For me it is strange when riveted doors with a turning wheel are made in apartments, such as, for example, on submarines. It is very important to make something of your own, not to slip into a specific literary image. Although there is not a single "literal" element, the interior has its own special character.Peter Churches: "The task of the architect is to create a well-thought-out layout. If we talk about style, one of my goals was to break the usual ideas about what the interior should look like. It uses not quite familiar materials and their combinations that create a strange, special space. "