VTB ARENA
RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX

Customer: young girl

Location: Moscow, VTB Arena Park Residential Complex

Room type: apartment

Project area: 100 sq.m.

Project description: The apartment is designed for living, mainly for one person - a young girl. This is the reason for such a free layout.
There is also a cat among the tenants, and special attention is paid to it, there is a place for a feeding trough with a drinker, as well as a place for a camera, through which you can monitor the serviceability of the “cat” equipment.

We can say we were lucky with the original layout, it was a single space without partitions.

In this interior we used the concept of flowing spaces. The rooms are connected to each other and have only conditional boundaries.

The entrance hall, kitchen, living room, winter garden (where the bar and reading area are located) are one space.
The lounge area, where the bar and reading area are located, is separated only by translucent plant shelves.

There is a sliding door at the entrance to the bedroom, and when it is pushed into the wall, it looks like there is no door at all, because it slides flush with the wall and is floor to ceiling high.
Entering the bedroom, there are no hard boundaries between the master bathroom and the bedroom, they are separated only by a partition that is located across the entire width of the room and is from floor to ceiling.
At the entrance to the dressing room are sliding doors made of frosted glass through which the light from the window penetrates, so we can close the door to the dressing room, but the light from the window will penetrate into the dark part of the apartment. When the doors are open, the dressing room becomes one with the hallway and adjoining rooms.

There are no windows in the hallway area, so we decided to make on one of the walls, a mirror from floor to ceiling and the width of almost the entire wall.
The mirror in the hallway is located opposite the panoramic window of the winter garden and reflects it, thus we have a window in the hallway.

There were many challenges in the process, but the unifying idea was to create a space that is not cluttered with a lot of partitions and walls, not only comfortable to live in, but also a space in which you would constantly discover something new.

As finishing materials we used oak parquet, large-format porcelain stoneware 2780x1200 mm, MDF wall panels.

A separate difficult task for us was to lift all the ordered large-format porcelain stoneware to the 13th floor. It did not fit in the freight elevator, it was not possible to elevator it by crane and bring it through the window, so it was lifted manually on the stairs to the 13th floor by a team of builders. They lifted it piece by piece, with breaks, but in the end they did not break a single tile.

On the walls used only paint except for two walls in the dressing room, where we used wallpaper imitating wall fabric panels.

The interior is made in black and white, with bright color accents, it is orange in the bathrooms and bedroom, and blue chairs in the kitchen. Almost all walls have white color that creates the effect of airiness.
This effect we tried to support even in small things, for example, the dining table has only one glass support.

The custom-made furniture is as functional as possible and does not stand out much in color. At the same time, we added bright accents in the kitchen and bedroom areas.

In freestanding furniture preference was given to Italian manufacturers, and in custom-made furniture we worked with Russian production.

In the dressing room the dressing table was made to order, a separate request from the customer was to make a mirror with backlighting, but at the same time we did not want to pull the wire from it, and therefore we made the lighting for the mirror from a battery, which can be easily charged from the nearby in-floor socket.

And in the winter garden area, a coffee table designed by us according to individual sketches fits in well.

In the process of work we used quite a lot of technological solutions.

The partition separating the bedroom from the bathroom is made of smart glass, which can be made transparent or frosted at your discretion, and when the transparency mode is switched on, the bedroom and the master bathroom visually become one room. This keeps the overall idea of an open and uncluttered space. And if you need privacy in the master bathroom, you can turn on the frosted glass mode and the space will look like a separate room.

In the bathrooms and in the kitchen area we used hidden ventilation grilles, so they do not attract unnecessary attention, but at the same time fulfill their direct function.

We had a similar approach in lighting design, yes, we have chandeliers and pendant lights in the project, but the main lights we also made built-in without unnecessary frames and framing.

In the kitchen island, for example, we did not really want to make ordinary sockets with frames that would stand out a lot, and so especially for the kitchen island we developed special integrated sockets.

Integrated curtain rods with an electric motor are rarely surprising nowadays, but in this space with large panoramic glazing they give additional comfort.

We also paid special attention to TVs: the TV in the living room was selected so that it looked equally good from both sides, and the TV in the bedroom was chosen to be as flat as possible, imitating a picture when turned off.

In the bathroom of the bedroom, we also installed an additional water filter so that you can wash your face with filtered water.

We managed to realize all the ideas in the project, and in some cases even improve them.

It is interesting now to remember the process of realization of the interior at the final stage, when the furniture was already finished and at this moment we brought the owner's cat and left him to live there. A separate task for us was to keep an eye on him so that during the final deliveries and installation no one would hurt him, he would not run away and he would not be very stressed by what was going on.