Apartments up to 45 sq.m.

36 square meters of bricks and 10 people under one roof

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Today, we will tell you a story about howthe city printing plant became a communal apartment, the communal office was replaced by offices, and a two-level loft appeared on the site of the offices. A lot of ideas, unusual layout, ultimate functionality

The city center is primarily a territory withlimited access for new buildings, which means that its architectural ensemble is sprinkled with gray hair. One of such old residents of the historical part of Mariupol is a pre-revolutionary brick house. The two-story structure, which has survived several eras and dozens of uses, has eventually become a haven for a functional, modern and as spacious as possible for 35.7 square meters of residential loft. Young ambitious Kharkovites from the design bureau The Goort Larisa Gusakova and Alexander Gusakov were responsible for the design of the apartment. Larisa Gusakova

Interior designer, co-founder of the design bureau TheGoort. One of those few "nuggets" who, thanks to self-education and talent, create unique projects, reaching a professional level and often surpassing certified colleagues in the workshop. thegoort.com

Owners of the room was a young familya couple who courageously decided to reorganize non-residential space into a comfortable apartment in accordance with the style of life. He, previously a promising lawyer, preferred photography and running his own Internet projects to routine practice. She is a professional fashion model.

Constant traveling, long stays abroadon work matters prompted the children to create a special place, which can be called a home, where they want to return, invite friends and relatives. The main wishes were space and freedom, functionality of space and a minimum of furniture - hence the characteristic design of the apartment. Larisa Gusakova, author of the project:- The project existed for a long time in words, in the form of some images and ideas, and the development stage took about six months. Trying on ideas and comparing them with the wishes of the customer, we did not experience any particular disagreements due to the fact that we know each other well from childhood, and, one might say, the object was created “as for ourselves”. thegoort.com

The difficulty in choosing was which decisionapply to the volume of space - horizontal or still vertical. A clear advantage were the impressively sized four-meter ceilings and - this is how the second level of the apartment appeared. Having additionally increased the height of the ceilings by an average of 15 cm due to the dismantling of the old floor covering, we have achieved equivalence between the lower and upper levels of the dwelling.

The lower level is - with the exception ofthe lack of a private area for the owners, the bedroom, together with the dressing room, rose to a higher level. The levels are connected by a staircase, while the bedroom has turned into a full-fledged room due to the presence of natural lighting in it - one of the three high windows of the apartment is divided in half. In addition to the recreation area, on the second "floor" there is a spacious dressing room for clothes, shoes and other things.

The main room is traditionally a living room, and in thisIn the case, rather, a multifunctional lounge zone: she and the dining room, and the cinema, and the guest beds - every inch of space is thought through in it. Based on the hospitality of the hosts, the interior of the room was designed taking into account the possible placement of ten people. The space was saved by a huge cabinet, which occupies the entire western wall of the room from floor to ceiling and accommodates a lot of things.

The cabinet is clearly zoned: the lower part is a storage for the folding table and chairs, the central one for pillows and sleeping accessories, the upper and side sections for storing other things. The cabinet is equipped with an attached ladder on the rollers, which provides access to any section and at any height. White sliding panels of the central part of the cabinet also serve as an improvised canvas for watching movies with the help of an overhead projector.

The "desk" in the apartment is provided in the formwall-sill tops the length of the wall. In the kitchen area, it serves as a small table for eating. The interior of the kitchen radiates the upper hand of functional minimalism: a hidden built-in technique, a row of capacious boxes - everything you need, nothing superfluous.

Larisa Gusakova, the author of the project:

- All cabinet furniture, and her in the project more thanenough, and some elements, such as the staircase, window sill-top, doors - are individual orders and designed for a specific project, they are different in simple appearance, but hide a lot of interesting inside.

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The bathroom and shower are combined. An excellent design find was a brick partition between the kitchen and the bathroom. The white surface of the wall in the kitchen is actually a window from the bathroom with frosted glass. Sliding wooden screen behind the toilet serves as a kind of "hiding place" for household chemicals and bath accessories.

Furniture in the interior is mainlynecessary items, but there are also decorative designs, such as a chest of drawers in the mailbox or a hanger in the hallway, which is assembled from black water pipes. Industrial interior is seen not only in functional furniture, but also in a few elements of decor and lighting.

This is the all-wood propeller of the airplane manualwork, lacquered and placed on the interstitial wall; a graphite board that is part of the wall in the kitchen and serves as an alternative to the stickers on the refrigerator; ceiling lampshades from aluminum. As such, there is no painting in the interior, the alternative is calligraphy of motivating phrases, applied to walls in different parts of the apartment.

This realized project of the guys from The Goort is proof of how two young and talented people can become serious rivals for the "monsters" of the architectural matter.

Alexander Gusakov, architect:

- The Goort at the moment - is, rather,the creative tandem of the architect (Alexander Gusakov) and the interior designer (Larisa Gusakova), rather than the design bureau in its traditional sense, with a separate office, a multitude of employees and others. To be more precise, we decided to do independent projects under our name in the summer of 2012.

The experience of working together at that time wasFor three years now, we met while working in the same design studio. We understood that we have common interests, similar principles in professional activities, and it is easy and interesting for us to work on joint projects. That was enough to start thinking about my own practice. thegoort.com thegoort.com

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