Ничто на свете не происходит зря. Когда я училась в Италии моими самыми близкими подругами были девочки из Швеции. 2 годы учебы вместе на одних проектах дали мне возможность влюбиться в скандинавский дизайн и вникнуть в него. Поэтому, когда меня попросили сделать дизайн кухни в скандинавском стиле, я про себя подумала “друзья, вы даже не представляете насколько по адресу вы пришли”.
Итак, 15.7 кв.м. кухня + обеденная зона. Смотрите, любуйтесь и живите красиво 🙂
2/10/2017. Ичан кала, Хива.
Запись в дневнике:
“I arrived in Khiva last night. I am staying at this newer but still so so hotel – synthetic bedcovers, office style window blinds. Great we have hotels like this, sad they are not designed well.”
Февраль 2018.
Я прихожу в себя после травмы (уже всё хорошо, не переживайте!). Мой кузен подкидывает мне проект со словами «архитекторы сделали проект, но интерьерами они не занимаются. Ты пока не супер активна, поработай над этим»
Об отеле:
Абажуры: будут сделаны нами в Узбекистане.
Абстрактная картина: художник Якуб Бекназаров.
Вот что получилось. Комментируйте, критикуйте.
Клиент “R” – наш ташкентский казах, который несколько лет назад по программе переселения переехал в Казахстан. Это его первая квартира – 110 квадратов в новостойке в городе Астане. Представьте какая радость наконец-то обрести свое жилье на новообретённой родине.
R ещё не женат, но женитьба в планах. В свободное от работы время он тренирует футбольную команду, фанат Барсы, отсюда и ”Mes que un club”.
Мама работает из дома, поэтому для нее требовался домашний офис в своей комнате c местом для хранения документов + телевизор для просмотра телепередач. Если кого-то смущает почему ближе к окну находится ТВ, а не рабочий стол, отвечаю – это пожелание клиента. На самом деле в этой квартире вы насчитаете 4 телевизора – на будущее, ну мало ли, когда R женится и у него будут детишки в одной комнате они будут смотреть мультики, в другой комнате R будет смотреть футбол, мама в своей комнате будет смотреть сериалы и четвертый ТВ на всякий случай.
Я работаю в Ташкенте. С рынком материалов в Ташкенте я знакома, с рынком материалов Астаны – нет. Меня этот момент немного смущал когда я брала этот проект. Каково же было мое удивление когда я нашла кучу онлайн магазинов сантехники, кафеля и мебели, с которыми было очень легко общаться и они высылали все необходимые текстуры для 3D. Для сравнения, для тех же текстур кафеля на родной Чукурсой я езжу со своим фотоаппаратом. С моими ташкентскими клиентами из магазинов мебели мы заходим только в “магазин” антиквариата на Янгиабаде, остальное все делается на заказ в Узбекистане, потому что то что предлагают мебельные салоны – это просто achtung!
План квартиры
Зал
Кухня
Спальня R
Санузел R
Спальня + домашний офис мамы
Санузел мамы
На прошлой неделе подбирала кафель для проекта и зашла в один из магазинов на Жомий, в котором я всегда нахожу что-то интересное. Возле выхода, так, между прочим, лежит на табуретке еще не выставленная на витрину майолика. Красивые цвета, приятная текстура. Моя первая мысль – будет интересно как это будет выглядеть на “фартуке” на кухне.
Спрашиваю продавца откуда такая красота. Он меня удивляет ответом “Это наша, узбекская” и продолжает “но стоит она дорого …”. Дорогая майолика стоит 300 тысяч узбекских сум за квадрат (по базарному курсу это около $44). Для тех кто не в курсе цен на кафель, $45 и выше – это цены на испанский кафель Made in Spain. Спросите почему так дорого? Оборудование из Испании, было завезено очень дорого.
Размер плитки 45см x 30 см в магазине Venus Ceramic, который среди дизайнеров и кафельщиков больше известен как “У Альберта”.
I don’t watch TV. I haven’t watched TV since I was 16 and I stopped watching it because with my high school graduation exams and entrance exams to the university I physically had no time for it. That “preparation for exams” period lasted for almost a year and as we all know, we only need 40 days to create a new habit and 180 days for a habit to become “you”. Since I was well beyond 180 days period, TV’s and my way parted for good.
Having said that I notice that I have a struggle or, rather, an internal resistance, to plan a space for TV in my projects. I have clients who occasionally ask me for a TV in their bedrooms. Ladies and gentlemen, bedrooms are meant to be used for something else! Moreover, having a TV in the bedroom is counter-productive to a good night sleep, in other words, your health!
I have also met people who placed a TVs in hallways – seriously, how badly are you afraid of missing the latest news from Syria?
TV in a dining room – I know it is a tradition and we need to respect traditions but family gathering around a table, talking about their day rather than staring at “the box” is a much older and healthier tradition.
TVs in cafes (which, sadly, became so popular in Uzbekistan) is a story which requires a separate post but my 2 cents – you place a TV in a cafe when you have nothing else to offer other than a mediocre food paired with a mediocre entertainment. So what do you do? You place a TV on a height of 2 meters so everyone can watch it from any place.
Why am I writing this? Because I am working on an interior design of a small apartment and if not for TV, the space planning part would have been finished.
I am aware that people are different and we need to show tolerance towards each other. Moreover, the client’s wish is my command, so, what I think about TV is really irrelevant when it comes to someone else’s house.
P.S.: full disclosure requires me to honestly state that Internet is becoming as addictive as TV and I am guilty of this crime myself though I am working on it.
This is the second house (89sq.m.) being built on the same land lot as “Karasu House I” in Karasu district of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
While the bigger house (Karasu House I) is designed to be used by all family members and had to be more traditional to cater to the tastes of grandparents, this one is designed only with a head of a household in mind – a 40-something businessman living a very dynamic life with late work hours and international conference calls in the middle of the night.
In addition to the main living requirements for a residential space like a bedroom, a bathroom, a living room and a kitchen, House II features a home office with a library and a hamam. Since the natural light only comes from one side of the house, to separate living room and home office zones wooden partitions were used to visually expand the space, to provide more natural light and better ventilation.
3D visualization of this project was done by Atabek Kasymov – thank you for your patience, especially with decoding my notes :))), and optimism you brought to this project.
“It is not what you know, it is who you know” saying is very true when it comes to how I got a chance to work on this project – an opportunity came through my yoga friend, our mats are right next to each other in a yoga class. One day before the beginning of the class he whispered “Hey, what do you know about Alisher Navoi?”. I jokingly whispered back “I know he was cool guy”.
Today is February 9, 2016 which in literary circles means 575th birthday anniversary of Nizamaddin Mir Alisher Navoi. To many he is known as a poetic genius who turned Turki (an old Uzbek language) into a literature language and put it on the same level as Farsi, which then had a prerogative of the only poetic language. In addition to being a poet, Navoi was a vizier to then ruler of Khorasan – an extremely high- ranking role in the State, calligrapher, philanthropist and a Sufi of Nakshbandi order. When I discovered the Sufi part (I am very curious about Sufism as a philosophy) my eyes lit up like Christmas lights and I knew exactly which way I was going to take this project.
There are many interpretation of the word Sufi. Many suppose it derives from the Arabic word “suff” (wool). However, given that the word is used to describe spiritually pure people, there is a supposition that it comes the Arabic “safa” (purity).
The project is to design Alisher Navoi room (105 square meters) in the National Library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi.
Main users of the library room will be:
On a day-to-day basis the room should be suitable for an individual learning, group studies (a hexagonal shape of desks was chosen to easily put a few desks together for a group work) and a more relaxed learning. As needs arise, the room will also be used for special events such as conferences, seminars and interviews with important guests. There should be an area for computers to provide users access to electronic database of the library and a small desk for a room coordinator. The client requested to keep the design contemporary with a use of old traditional decorative elements such as miniature paintings and geometric patterns.
The design concept for this project revolves around an idea of Sufi purity and multifaceted personality of Navoi. This room was designed to be a tour into a personality of Navoi which starts with an Introduction Wall (on the right from the entrance), moves onto “Fani” and “Navoi” poetic walls, and then then takes us to a “Wisdom wall “, a collection of quotes by Navoi for those who are learning, maybe struggling and need a dose of encouragement. “Wisdom wall” is followed by a “Sufi wall” which is titled with Navoi’s own summary of Sufi philosophy: “A way of being content with less”.
*Note, as of a today, the interior design of the room is approved but the wall text content is in refinement process by experts specializing on Navoi heritage. Implementation is scheduled for March – April 2016.
В Алмате пахнет осенью. Еще раз убеждаюсь, что Алмата – город очень приятный: зеленый, чистый, относительно спокойный (Ташкент мне кажется более динамичным) и главное умно спланированный. Дорожное движение напоминает цивильную часть Европу – пешеходов пропускают и водят спо-кой-но. Короче, система штрафов делает свое дело . Ещё бы урезать количество машин и построить велосипедные дорожки, цены бы этому городу не было.
Встретились с подругой на обед, которая мне дала список заведений, которые я обязательно должна посетить. В списке кафе “Льдинка”, которое недавно открылось в новом скандинавской облике со старым лого. Та же подруга посоветовала погуглить творчество алматинского дизайнера Тимура Актаева, что вывело на следующую статью, которая очень была бы полезна 95% людей, которых я знаю.
Image courtesy by astonishingsecrets
I am working on the 3rd project this month where garment storage is torturing me simply because there is not much physical space where you can have an open or closed storage without making a place suffocate for air. The thought of downsizing has been running through my head until I got to an underlying issue – people owning and storing things they are not really using.
One apartment I am working on is a rental property where first I was opting for an open storage until we agreed with a client that we would move some walls and create a small walk-in garment closet. However, if you think about it, if you are renting, shouldn’t you be as light as air?
I admit, I am guilty of this myself partly because in the past I used to work in the office and I still have my business clothes (something needs to be done with those), partly because my clothes last me ages. My philosophy for this summer has been to limit what I wear to a few things leaving 2 boxes of summer clothes peacefully resting in my parents’ garage.
“A Practical Guide to Owning Fewer Clothes” is a post on living a minimalist lifestyle with fewer clothes, which will decrease your needs in a storage space making your living space wider, lighter and airier. The only thing I would add as item 11 is “Be in a good shape” because once you have a toned and beautiful body chances are anything will look good on you.
On items 6,7 and 9 from the article – in my humble opinion, love for shopping or its obsessive form shopaholism is a search for a joy that’s missing in life. People think they will buy a new something and that something will buy them happiness. Maybe for a few days but then they go back to the same state of “something is missing”. So, it is not the physical things that need to be bought, it is something within that probably needs to be discovered and filled.
