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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Stampsy & IO Studio in Moscow, Russia by ArchiprobaOctober 17th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Archiproba The Moscow office of IO and Stampsy is located in a hall that used to be an assembly room of the Komsomol Central Committee.  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum
 Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum Until 1991, the Komsomol administration had been headquartered in the building with distinct constructivist features. The companies’ co-working space is located in its assembly hall. Before it was created here, the whole space had been divided into tiny offices each of the size of a phone booth. The walls were decorated with wooden panels, which provided a recognizable interior style of Soviet offices of 1970s.  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum Two layers of the suspended ceilings that hided original lamps and lampshades produced by the Minsk plant “Ingral” in 1978. It was a real gem. The task of the architects was to restore the space back to its original view with minimal investments, and to partly save original textures and interior elements.  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum The lampshades were hung on cables, while the wooden panels, the end wall’s brickwork and the parquetry were carefully restored. New elements were providently mixed together with the old ones. The work desks, the kitchen island and the storage system were created by special order on the basis of architects’ sketches. Another part of the furniture is vintage, most of it was found among other stuff in the fire exit staircase. It included for example a Kofod Larser chair designed in 1970s.  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum An important source of inspiration for both teams is a neon quote from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum  Image Courtesy © Olya Eichenbaum
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