2332 is an apartment for a young couple of creatives with a child, located in a private sector near the botanical garden in Kyiv’s Upper City.
The work on 2332 became an example of fruitful creative collaboration with the clients – they actively participated in the selection of materials and furniture and independently proposed many options that eventually found a place in the design. At the request of the clients, we had to provide enough space in the apartment for their painting collection.
Zoning
To the left of the apartment entrance is the “public” area – the living room and an open kitchen with an island. To the right is the space of the owners with a bedroom, a children's room, a bathroom, and a wardrobe. Opposite the entrance is the transit area of the hallway with a guest bathroom and a utility room with closets for storage.
Interior
The starting point of our concept was the atypical layout of the object – the apartment is elongated between two sources of natural light. We faced an architectural-aesthetic task – to make this long empty hall interesting in terms of forms and volumes and to set an organic axis of movement through the various zones of the apartment. We decided to invite visitors to a volumetric-spatial game and decorated this route using surfaces of different heights and materials. Thus, the private area is decorated with a contrasting black color, which stands out against the predominantly white walls of the living room. The kitchen is clad in wooden panels and united into one cube of a warm shade.
The visual axis in the interior is served by the wooden floor. A glass wall in the bathroom is used for a stylistic connection between the apartment zones – when the curtain is open, through the glass, one can see the continuation of the hallway and wood. Plumbing fixtures in the bathroom are placed on a concrete podium.
