Kovalska workplace in Kyiv is decked out with humble constructing supplies

Artistic duo Artem Trigubchak and Lera Brumina used concrete slabs, sand and paving stones to vogue the furnishings and partition partitions inside this workplace in Kyiv.

Designed for a Ukrainian developer and constructing supplies firm referred to as Kovalska, the 1,120-square-metre workplace is unfold throughout two flooring of a Soviet-era manufacturing facility within the industrial district of Obolon.

The decrease ground is devoted to gross sales and features a reception space, product library, small workplace and kitchen, whereas the higher ground homes personal places of work and assembly rooms for the corporate’s inner departments.

Native architect Artem Trigubchak labored alongside inside designer Lera Brumina to create a contemporary inside that revered the constructing’s present concrete shell.

The pair additionally defined that the monumental mosaic panel that options on the manufacturing facility’s facade, in addition to the big proportions of the constructing, served as a big supply of inspiration for the challenge.

“We’re endlessly impressed and love the structure of the Soviet interval, and we actually wished to create a cushty working house with out violating the architectural context,” they defined.

“Working with the supplies that had been obtainable to us for this challenge, we tried to attach all the colors in a harmonious story with the previous facade of the constructing, which is embellished with mosaics.”

As the most important producer of constructing supplies in Ukraine, numerous Kovalska’s personal supplies and merchandise are built-in into the workplace’s inside.

These embrace the hole-punctured concrete slabs that make up a partition within the reception ready space and the paving stones which have been used to make the bottom of a bench seat and desk.

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The burgundy-coloured terrazzo tiles used all through the decrease ground had been additionally developed by the corporate particularly for this challenge.

On the higher ground, sky-blue linoleum covers the ground as a substitute. A mix of marble chips sand has then been used to create a textured floor end on among the partitions.

Rooms throughout each flooring are additionally divided by reeded glass partitions that reach all the best way as much as the ceiling. These enable daylight to filter into all areas of the house and create a way of openness.

Many of the items of furnishings, in addition to the lighting system, are bespoke and had been designed by Trigubchak and Brumina themselves.

As an example, a sequence of tables with MDF counter tops and chunky cylindrical bases had been made for the assembly rooms and the kitchen. Among the tables are forest inexperienced or cobalt blue, whereas others are cherry crimson.

The lighting system that runs throughout the ceiling of the reception space and gross sales workplace includes rows of huge round lamps.

Trigubchak and Brumina particularly designed it to imitate the lighting association within the newspaper workplace featured in director David Fincher’s mystery-thriller movie, Zodiac.

“[The lights] shine with very heat subtle gentle, making a distinction with the restrained and strict shades and supplies,” Brumina added.

This marks the second time that Artem Trigubchak and Lera Brumina have labored collectively – again in 2018, the 2 designed sugary pink interiors for a restaurant and bakery within the Ukrainian metropolis of Odessa.

Their Kovalska workplace is not the one interiors challenge to inventively combine shopper merchandise. In Tawain, Waterform Design created a workspace for a gasoline supplier utilizing reclaimed gasoline cylinders from the corporate’s manufacturing facility to make desk legs and plant pots.

Pictures is by Dmitrii Tsyrenshchikov.