CALIFORNIA
Ukraine, Khmelnitsky 2020
area: 250m2
stage: project
architects: Yuri Gavrilyuk, Miroslav Shkolnikov
visualizer: Denis Getmanchyk
CALIFORNIA
Ukraine, Khmelnitsky 2020
area: 250m2
stage: project
architects: Yuri Gavrilyuk, Miroslav Shkolnikov
visualizer: Denis Getmanchyk
The project is made in a style that is quite popular in modern architecture, where the white color feels natural.
“Everything in the house should be white. When you clean your house, you clean yourself,” said Le Corbusier, an outstanding French architect. It was he who, at the beginning of the 20th century, forced the houses to take off their hats and dress up in roof-terraces. Under his strict guidance, the walls migrated across the space and, in a completely hooligan manner, leaned forward from the supporting structures of the facades.
In this case, such a diverse structure of the building helped to compensate for the lack of space, since it was necessary to place several functionally significant structures on a small site located in the central part of the city. The task was complicated by the desire to still preserve a piece of nature for the inhabitants of the house and decided to transfer the green zone to 2 spacious terraces on the second floor.
The idea of placing the SPA-zone in the center between a residential building and a free-standing sauna in the courtyard was dictated by the need to fence off the roads that are adjacent to the site on both sides. There, a pool and a gazebo were hidden compactly and comfortably.
Windows recessed from the parapets enhance the visual massiveness of the outer walls of the monumental structure, but retain that elegant geometric harmony. Harmony of pure forms and pure color.