This time we were visited by a team of architectsrich and very multifaceted experience - in addition to houses and apartments, the Al Studio bureau was engaged in the design of a school, a skating rink at VDNKh and many other interesting projects. The Al Studio bureau was founded by Vasily Soshnikov 13 years ago. During this time, he managed to raise a team of independent, young and daring architects from apprentices. Al Studio's portfolio includes many private interiors and houses, apartment buildings, residential areas, a comprehensive school, parks, a skating rink at VDNKh and a whole collection of new concepts. In addition, Al Studio projects are regular participants in competitions. Some of the bureau's works have already received awards, for example, the loft interiors at Kristall. According to the bureau's employees, architecture is above styles, so the Al Studio team is interested in the very essence of creativity, because the requests from customers are very different. Often, architects face contradictions when it is impossible to solve the problem within the framework of one style.
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Bright projects
Today Al Studio has many projects,worthy of attention, some are at the design stage, others are only planned. However, there are some that had very interesting nuances. For example, Al Studio did an object with representatives of the Loher company - three generations of the founders of this company are engaged in yacht interiors and fully equipped the apartments from Al Studio with very complex carpentry. In order to unload Loher trucks, eight representatives of the company came to Moscow for one day specially. Another interesting experience - the construction of a house in Tolyatti. The author's supervision was arranged as follows: at 5 am - a taxi to the airport, a flight, a taxi there, at 12 the architect is at the construction site, at 17 again a taxi, a flight, to 22 houses. Very cool!
Ivan Kolmanok, architect:— I should mention the skating rink at VDNKh, a very interesting practice, we drew the first sketches four months before the opening. Very short deadlines and a burden of responsibility. The opening day is set strictly, you can’t miss it — I remember the first visitors enter the pavilions, and the workers leave at the same time through the doors opposite. st-ai.ru
Ivan Kolmanok, architect:— We designed an amazing school for Tolyatti. The client requested European quality in both architecture and interiors, and it turned out to be very difficult to implement. After all, everything that concerns children is strictly regulated, otherwise the architecture of schools and kindergartens in Russia would have had a completely different weight long ago. What can still be used is incredibly expensive. During the period of submitting the project for examination, the chief engineer and I probably did not sleep for a month. Every day, our next beautiful solutions were rejected, and we began to look for an opportunity to stay within the norms and make excellent interiors. st-ai.ru
Ivan Kolmanok, architect:— I would also like to highlight our project submitted to the Kristall plant loft competition. Everything is extremely simple at the competition: the more elaborate and clear your project is, the higher your chances of winning. So the whole team was in the workshop on January 3, and the first day off fell on March 8, but we managed to fully immerse ourselves in the project. st-ai.ru
Quick poll
— - Ivan, tell us about the price tag on yourservices. — — Al Studio is moving away from the price per meter. This is an archaic thing, providing a lot of opportunities for dumping, now we design and implement objects, leaving ourselves an agreed percentage, 10%-25% of the total budget. These amounts include the cost of the project and the general contract, and the discounts that the bureau has earned with suppliers over 13 years go to the client, everything is open and transparent. — — What is unique about your services? — — Each new project must be cooler than the previous one, otherwise you will quickly fly out of the market. Actually, this is the idea on which all uniqueness is built. — — Tell us about your favorite brands. — — Maybe this is not right, but we do not have such a thing, all content is selected for the context each time from scratch, otherwise, I'm afraid, we will become obsolete. — — What is the geography of your services? — — Moscow and the region, Tolyatti, Astrakhan, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Milan. — — Tell us about the most unusual case from your practice. — — Quite recently, a client approached us with an offer to participate in a tender for the design of housing and an office in a newly built apartment complex with an area of 200 square meters. He said that we would have to compete with a team from St. Petersburg. Allegedly ready to provide a full range of services for 37 thousand rubles. — — What is the most difficult task you have faced in your work? — — It was very difficult to comply with all the standards when designing a school.
