Adam’s Forest House is an private house with a total area of 181.35 m2 (about 2 000 ft2), designed on a picturesque area with perennial existing pines a few kilometres from Kiev. The project was created by Golub Architects for a family with two children.
The Masnavi office was named a “warship” during its creation.
It is located in a building that rises like a ship over a steep shore and water surface and is looking on the left bank of Kyiv and the Dnipro river, like from the captain’s cabin.
Space in 520m² is divided into zones: design, financial, analytical departments, private offices, and meeting rooms. Corridors combine work areas with common open spaces. The offices remind work cabins of the crew, with different lighting scenes. The glass walls of some offices pass the daylight into corridors.
This project was developed for the Ukrainian brand the COAT by Katya Silchenko. The women’s ready-to-wear brand was founded by Kateryna Silchenko in 2014. The designer draws inspiration from women around, who are strong, passionate, and subtle at the same time.
In the early fall of 2022, the team of Bezmirno architectural studio completed work on the design project implementation for the apartment in the Tetris Hall residential complex in Kyiv.
Our main aim was to create an elegant and cozy space by combining warm colors with natural materials.
Each project reflects the energy and nature of the homeowner. As a rule, we receive a number of restrictions and requests from the client, which gives an impetus to our work. This interior, however, was designed for a rental apartment, so it didn’t have any particular image. That’s why we decided to design a space where we would like to live ourselves.
The authors of this interior as well as the brand identities of each of the cafes of the TAKAVA chain are the famous Ukrainian designers, twin brothers native of Kherson, Volodymyr and Oleksandr Yudin. Most Ukrainians know them also as co-hosts of the Ukrainian version of the TV show “Hell’s Kitchen”. In 2000, they opened their studio in Kyiv, working throughout Ukraine, Europe and the United States. They specialize in HoReCa, retail and public places. They take care of the appearance of each project from scratch and turnkey: name, slogan, logo, corporate colors, staff clothing design, menu, takeaway and interior design!
‘Chornobyl. Journey’ is a multimedia exhibition dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster. The project’s goal was to form a new perspective on the Chornobyl tragedy: to help people reevaluate history and prompt a discussion about the future of the Exclusion Zone.
The organizers aspired to tell the story of Chornobyl in a contemporary manner and transport the audience into the epicenter of the events using immersive technology such as VR.
Color isn’t something to be afraid of. Bright colors fill our lives with emotions.
Rich blue and noble maroon colors have become the leitmotifs of the Musician’s apartment.
Something special can be created even using simple materials as a play of colors, texture and rhythm of tiles, rare musical instruments, ceramics and decor.
As our customers gave us freedom, the project was implemented without any special requirements and restrictions, except for the budget. If you live in the same environment all the time, you will get stuck and bored. Therefore, we tried to avoid stagnation, using unusual shades and trying to leverage them somehow giving the dynamics to the interiors.
DOM is our completed project of a restaurant outside of Kyiv, where everyone can escape from the bustle of the city, enjoy the sound of rustling tree crowns, swim in the pool and delight themselves with a high-level cuisine.
But there is a big story behind the created piece of paradise that we want to share in detail.
So, if we go back into a year ago, we will see two separate houses and a large stage for concerts on the site of the existing building. The interiors were done in dark colours, steampunk style and with many rough elements and textures. Large beams made of artificially darkened wood, oversized metal structures, all of this oversaturated the former biker mecca.
The architecture of the house is characterized by concern for natural habitat and the desire to generate a large-span living space to accommodate the residents comfortably. Therefore, the building is cantilevered above the terrain, preserving all pre-existing trees, relief, and based on a long metal frame with a 12-meter column pitch.
The top of the house is flat, but in the central part it forms a bend and turns into a pitched roof, forming glazing for the skylight. The southern wall of the building faces the pine forest and is made of panoramic glazing, revealing a picturesque view of the entire river valley from all rooms in the house. A balcony extends along the glazing and connects to the main terrace at the end of the house, access to the balcony and terrace is possible through sliding aluminum systems from the rooms.