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The portfolio of the architectural Bureau SL Project, founded
by Alexei Nikolashin – includes residential and public spaces,
townhouses, hotels, boutiques and apartments. The geography
of projects extends from Moscow, Yalta, Sochi to Monte Carlo,
Budva and Baku. The peculiarity of how the SL Project studio
works on projects is the use of an architectural approach to the
formation of space.
The apartment on Mosfilmovskaya street is not an exception
and its area, by modern standards, is not too large – 120 m.
The customers wanted to have a living room with a large group
of sofas, a kitchen with an island and a dining table, to make
separate bedrooms for them and their three children – two
boys and a girl. According to Alexei Nikolashin, it was not easy
to take into account all these wishes and implement them on
such a space. The apartment has an angular location and a
large number of windows, so the authors of the project decided
to use these advantages to obtain a spacious, bright volume,
combining the kitchen with a living room in the same area with
a laundry room. “We usually distinguish between the kitchen
and the living room with sliding partitions that can “hide” in the
wall, “explains Alexey Nikolashin. – but was not possible in this
apartment. Its advantage is a panoramic window with access to
the terrace, so I wanted to make the room bright, without any
partitions between the kitchen and the living room.”
Alexey managed to realize also the bedrooms: he designed three
rooms – master bedrooms for the parents and two children’s
rooms – one for the girl, another for the boys.
For the master bedroom, the architect proposed a rather
unusual solution, combined with the bathroom to get a single
and spacious volume.
These two spaces are a continuation of each other, but
nevertheless have a separation by means of a sliding door made
of transparent glass. In the interior design cool and warm colors,
as well as smooth white surfaces combined with wood as a
floor covering and decorative element for walls and ceilings.
This solution has a functional purpose: all utilities are hidden
under the wooden panels. For example, under the ceiling
in the hallway, and bathroom are the air conditioning and air
duct grilles. Trees perform the function of zoning. The project
also uses marble, which is also always present in the works of
Alexei. This material is used as decoration on one of the walls
and built-in wardrobes in the master bathroom, as well as a
wall behind the work area in the kitchen. The peculiarity of the
project is textured rack walls made of dark wood, as well as
a wardrobe in the living room of white cubic volumes, forming
open and closed shelves. All this emphasized the architectural
approach of the author to interior design. “we managed to make
an ergonomic, light volume,” concludes Alexey. – It was the fact
that our customers trusted us, and therefore got the result,
which satisfied 100%”.
