Over the past two months, our whole life - from work to playing sports, from business negotiations to watching movies - has been limited by walls of our own apartments. This is a fantastic experience: now we will prepare for future epidemics in advance, freeing balconies from trash and equipping a cozy working corner in the kitchen. Or, perhaps, we will completely change our idea of a comfortable city apartment and begin to spend leisure time on the roof of our houses, which by that time will become recreation areas, or we will learn to live in a narrow framework of our quarter. Kitchen talk Self-isolation has demonstrated that modern living space must be flexible and adaptive. Today, a typical apartment is designed primarily for rest and sleep. Another space in the apartment is a balcony. This little space for temporary “inner isolation” during quarantine seems to have acquired a different functionality. Now it is not a place where we store everything that is a step away from being thrown away/ But now the presence of balconies and terraces has turned out to be more relevant as never before, says Nikita Vykhodtsev, a founder of an Arcanika architectural studio. Despite severe winters in most areas of Russia. “Look at Copenhagen,” the architect recommends. “The climate is similar to St. Petersburg: windy, dank, a lot of rainfall. However, the general trend in both economy class apartments and premium class apartments is having large terraces and balconies, ability to spend time in fresh air, while staying at home. ” “Vasya, go home!” Now we come to the most important part of the apartment itself. How to make it convenient for future possible self-isolation or adapt it to a remote work format? Another important aspect of our changed life is the need to provide an office for ourselves in the apartment. According to Andrei Starikov, a comfortable office in your apartment can be arranged on 1.5–2 square meters. You can reorganize the existing space with the placement of the "workstation" in the living room, bedroom or loggia. This option can be implemented faster and with less financial and time costs, believes Nikita Vykhodtsev. The original publication: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4363581?from=four_realty&fbclid=IwAR3fBqSsl2eB2IAbBM2OpUt6Rnun...
Over the past two months, our whole life - from work to playing sports, from business negotiations to watching movies - has been limited by walls of our own apartments. This is a fantastic experience: now we will prepare for future epidemics in advance, freeing balconies from trash and equipping a cozy working corner in the kitchen. Or, perhaps, we will completely change our idea of a comfortable city apartment and begin to spend leisure time on the roof of our houses, which by that time will become recreation areas, or we will learn to live in a narrow framework of our quarter. Kitchen talk Self-isolation has demonstrated that modern living space must be flexible and adaptive. Today, a typical apartment is designed primarily for rest and sleep. Another space in the apartment is a balcony. This little space for temporary “inner isolation” during quarantine seems to have acquired a different functionality. Now it is not a place where we store everything that is a step away from being thrown away/ But now the presence of balconies and terraces has turned out to be more relevant as never before, says Nikita Vykhodtsev, a founder of an Arcanika architectural studio. Despite severe winters in most areas of Russia. “Look at Copenhagen,” the architect recommends. “The climate is similar to St. Petersburg: windy, dank, a lot of rainfall. However, the general trend in both economy class apartments and premium class apartments is having large terraces and balconies, ability to spend time in fresh air, while staying at home. ” “Vasya, go home!” Now we come to the most important part of the apartment itself. How to make it convenient for future possible self-isolation or adapt it to a remote work format? Another important aspect of our changed life is the need to provide an office for ourselves in the apartment. According to Andrei Starikov, a comfortable office in your apartment can be arranged on 1.5–2 square meters. You can reorganize the existing space with the placement of the "workstation" in the living room, bedroom or loggia. This option can be implemented faster and with less financial and time costs, believes Nikita Vykhodtsev.
The original publication: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4363581?from=four_realty&fbclid=IwAR3fBqSsl2eB2IAbBM2OpUt6Rnun...