Rina Lovko Studio

Blue Terracotta Apartment

BLUE TERRACOTTA APARTMENT

Rina Lovko

Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko

ARCHITECTS
Rina Lovko

LEAD ARCHITECT
Rina Lovko

MANUFACTURERS
BRUMA, HAY, Kartell, Magis, Menu, Adobe, Art Nova, B&B Italiy, Vandra Rugs

PHOTOGRAPHS
Yevhenii Avramenko

AREA
200 m²

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Kyiv, Ukraine

CATEGORY
Apartments

Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko

Radial walls - the feature of this apartment in a new residential complex in the center of Kyiv. The custom layout of the space created certain difficulties.

But at the same time, it caused us professional excitement. The customer dreamed of modern, functional living space.

Comfortable and with bright accents but at the same time not dry and strict. Standard techniques did not work here because of the complex geometry, although the total area of space is quite large - 207 square meters.

Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko

That's why each solution was developed individually. The layout of the apartment is part of a circle divided into sections.

We combined several sections into a living-dining room-kitchen-hallway. In the next room, there is a bedroom, in which there are two entrances:from the main corridor and the dining area.

Another section was used for the dressing room with a make-up area by the window, two terracotta wardrobes, an island chest of drawers, and a case made according to our sketches.

Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko

Part of the walls was replaced with glass partitions with integrated doors to increase the illumination of dark areas.

That’s gives an opportunity for daylight to reach the most remote corners of the apartment.

The master's bathroom also was placed behind such a partition. Based on the principles of minimalism, we deliberately hid all nonessentials.

Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko

For example, storage panels and an electric panel were hidden behind the panels at the entrance to the apartment.

We organized several hidden areas to relieve the main space from cupboards and household items not of prime necessity. We organized additional dressing rooms, a laundry room, and a guest bathroom.

Even TVs were refused. Instead, projectors are used in the apartment, and the walls of the bedroom and living room serve as screens for projecting images and videos.

Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko

The profession of the client obliged us to pay special attention to the kitchen. The Big kitchen island was conceived as a place for meeting friends and cooking together. Its tabletop is covered with terracotta Mutina tiles.

In the main kitchen, we abandoned the upper cabinets, moving the storage place for dishes to the lower units. All cabinet furniture for this object is made according to our sketches.

The decoration concept is to preserve the exposed concrete of columns and ceiling, which we covered with translucent varnish.

Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko

With the visually corresponds micro cement floor. We wanted to avoid boiling white colour. Therefore, the walls have a warm beige hue.

Terracotta kitchen, sky blue dining table, and green bedside table set color accents in space.

Space turned out to be quite cozy, despite the strict forms and a minimum of furnishings.

Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko


Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko
Blue Terracotta Apartment
© Yevhenii Avramenko


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Rina Lovko Studio
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Rina Lovko Studio
Velyka Zhytomyrska St, 4В, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01025