What are you capable of for maximum comfort andFeelings of ease in your apartment? Ready to give up cozy textiles, the usual decor and even furniture in the conventional sense? The interior of the Moscow apartment, which we will show you today, will surprise and inspire you. Simple and functional, but with a distinct personality. Airy and light, but not cold. Calm and bright, but bright. The apartment, in which every centimeter "works" for the whole hundred, appeared in the five-story "stalinka" on Bagrationovskaya Street. 
Interiors like this one are usually praised forexhibitions for a successful concept and a departure from stereotypes and discuss in blogs as messages from the future. But before real people in these homes they "get" rarely - the public taste is too conservative. This time everything turned out: customers and architects found each other not only partners, but also like-minded people. 
The owners of the apartment are dynamic and modern people,with two daughters of "mobile" age, 10 and 4 years old. Hence the needs: a laconic interior with a minimum of furniture and corridors and a maximum of light and opportunities for a varied pastime with children. One of the most daring architectural workshops in the capital, Ruetemple, took on the task. Alexander Kudimov and Daria Bukhtueva, architectural studio Ruetemple Graduates of the Moscow Architectural Institute (2007), during and after their studies, worked in several architectural studios, until they founded their own in 2008. The list of her completed projects was still quite short, when the name Ruetemple first sounded loudly throughout the country in the literal sense of the word - from the blue screen. Alexander and Daria created an original transforming cube for the Dachny Answer program on NTV. The designer, which can transform into a bedroom, living room, study or relaxation area at the request of its owners, has collected many awards. Unexpected and innovative approaches, the search for the most ergonomic solutions and attention to the needs of the customer distinguished all subsequent projects of the studio. The area of interest is the space that surrounds a person, be it an interior or an urban environment, so architects are equally happy to design both experimental reading booths for Moscow parks and multifunctional furniture. “We strive for organicity and simplicity and, solving this or that problem, we try to get away from stereotypes and look for fresh transparent solutions”. ruetemple.ru 
Organization of space
As in most Stalinist houses, this is everythingthe walls are load-bearing, the architects had to work in a very rigid framework. Architectural studio Ruetemple: - It was impossible to make a radical redevelopment. The only thing that was possible was to demolish the partition separating the corridor with two bathrooms and the living room. Thanks to this, we got an open space in the living room. A long nursery with two windows was divided into two parts by a central play block - in fact, we received two rooms with a play area. The shape of the long and narrow bedroom is smoothed out with two walk-in closets built into it. The black cube contains bathrooms, a wardrobe and a kitchen at the same time. ruetemple.ru 
Colour
White background, oak floor and two bright colors andfunctional accent: black volume and yellow spots - the wall opposite and the game. One might say that the solution is in the Scandinavian spirit, if the architects put an end to this. And they got an ellipsis. The walls of the black block are covered with slate paint, and the white wall opposite - marker. It is not hard to imagine what children can turn into in a fit of inspiration. And if the parents help? Color - a very personal element of design, in this space it can be added with the same ease with which to change the mise en scene in each of the rooms. 
Living room and kitchen
A chameleon interior that can adapt toany need with a wave of the master's hand is the main idea that led to a whole scattering of interesting and unusual finds. Architectural studio Ruetemple: - The owners of the apartment wanted to have a permeable light space, without the clutter of wardrobes, nightstands, shelves and other things. That is why we made all the furniture integrated into the walls and floor, it is simply not visible. We tried to include as many functions as possible in the black block, even under the ceiling above the block - mezzanine storage. ruetemple.ru 
Inside the block there are two bathrooms: one includes only a toilet and a washing machine, the other - a full one, with a bathroom, shower and storage system. Both in yellow-black colors, on the walls - micro cement, on the floor - micro-concrete, relatively new for Russia, but very interesting materials. 
Black and white logically grows out of a black cubekitchen. The dark part is built into the volume - refrigerator, dishwasher and separate lockers; Light connects the design with the main living area. Simple and minimal in form, the kitchen emphasizes and highlights the cube as the main element of the living room. 
On the contrary - the know-how and pride of the architects, who first took up the development of modular upholstered furniture. 
Architectural studio Ruetemple:- Universal modules are a key part of the living room, specially designed for this place. Instead of one ordinary commercial sofa, we made five small movable half-couches (on wheels), which allow you to get completely different combinations of zones: from a large chill-out for the whole family with guests to a small intimate reading area. Thus, you can change the functional purpose of the room, today, for example, you can watch football with friends, and tomorrow you can receive guests and play board games. ruetemple.ru 
Bedroom
In the same spirit, there is also a bedroom. Instead of a purchased bed, a wardrobe and a chest of drawers - a single design, developed by Ruetemple. Oak podium - and simultaneously a space for sleep, and a complex storage system, and a bedside table, and a shelf. The only element of the decor is a brick wall, which we decided to leave as it is. 
Children's
The most elegant solution is found in the nursery,a source of enthusiastic parenting comments on social media. Not even because from one room it was logical and natural to get two, but because exactly how it happened. Architectural studio Ruetemple: - You might think that our children's play block is just a place for games: climbing levels, a hammock and houses with a window, but in fact it is also a large storage system of drawers. There are sleeping places and study tables on both sides. The parts are equal, but not symmetrical. ruetemple.ru 
Tables grow from windows, and boxes are mountedeven on the steps. Result: own personal space for each child, but not isolated, but related to each other; a field for creativity, where there is all the tools necessary for children's imagination, but there are no ready-made models that prevent it from developing. 
Idea
What happens if you remove almost all the furniture from your home? Much of the textiles? Not too necessary, but familiar and comfortable trifles? And replace it all with a universal home designer like "Lego", able to assemble into any shape you want? Will remain pure geometry - the beauty of lines and volumes interacting with each other in free and air space. Perhaps this decision is not for everyone, but in the originality and ingenuity, he definitely will not refuse. 
Architectural studio Ruetemple:- The best thing about this project is its personality. There are practically no branded items in it, we have developed all the tables, beds and other furniture ourselves. There are so many complex structures that the need to decorate the walls has essentially disappeared. In general, it cannot be said that we first made the walls, then the furniture, etc., everything was done in the same way, in one breath. ruetemple.ru 
In the interior used:
- Virtually all the furniture - author's designs made to order under the sketches of Ruetemple.
- Kitchen - "Stylish Kitchens" (Russia).
- Doors - Hameleon, Union (Italy).
- Fixtures - Artemide (Italy) and IKEA (Sweden).
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