AP101

RC SKANDI KLUBB

Facility

An apartment of about 80 m2 is located in Aptekarsky Prospect of the Petrogradskaya Side, in the Skandi Klubb Residential Estate. The project was made for a married couple that were relocated to St. Petersburg from Moscow for job.

The residential estate features a Scandinavian style, its facades plastered and painted neutral grey and complimented with bright burgundy highlights. We adhered to a similar color pallet in our design.

Planning solutions

Our key planning challenge was to design a spacious multifunctional zone for leisure and house partying, as well as an independent living zone with a bedroom, a bathroom, and a kids’ room. We decided to unite a kitchen, a diner, and a sitting room into an open space, which is typical for Scandinavian countries, and separate living premises from it with a small hall.

In the kitchen, the island has the dominant part, housing a breakfast stand and being adjoined by a dining place. Moreover, it has a built-in wine chiller, facing the kitchen. This solution supported visual integrity of the area.

The same zone was used to locate a sofa and a TV cabinet, in which the owners of the place store their collection of vinyl discs. This zone was separated with a planked partition in a metal frame, which also concealed the guest bathroom on the side of the corridor.

Finishing solutions

As to the stylistics, we wanted to design an urban housing interior which with its austerity and modesty would be different from the relaxed atmosphere of the customers’ Moscow-based home. At the same time, we wanted to fill the apartment with air and natural light, and to make all the storage systems and secondary rooms kind of transparent and hard to notice. The neutral background was complimented with terracotta and burgundy hues, repeating the pallet of external facades.

In this interior, we used furniture and object design pieces by Scandinavian manufacturers: &tradition, Muuto, Normann Copenhagen, and others.