The Deep Gray project designed in 2020 by Azovskiy + Pahomova is a minimalist apartment located in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.

Description
The clients are a family with two children who know how to see the beauty in minimalism and appreciate it. Their wishes were succinct and understandable: to create comfortable housing for life in concise methods.
Initially, the apartment was a “clean” space without any partitions, but with several columns to which it was necessary to attach. The result is a functionally non-standard layout, including due to the task that the nursery should be very voluminous.
We worked with rich raw data such as concrete ceiling and columns. It was decided not to close them and not to decorate them in any way. Where the wiring could not be concealed, other materials were used: veneered wood panels and a plasterboard ceiling. Here all materials play the role of themselves. Thus, two-thirds of the apartment became open. The hallway is incredibly charismatic. There is a separate dressing room, which allows you to take all interactions with it from your eyes. The structural design of the transit zone gives rhythm, keeping in line with the doors.
The closest to the hallway is a children’s bedroom and at the same time a play area for two girls, each of whom we tried to organize the maximum space. The arrangement of two beds in the children’s room is an original and key functional solution. Reliable and ple...