A Ukrainian Apartment Takes Notes from Wabi-Sabi
A Kyiv apartment with a room framed with a 6 meter window to give a view of life coming and going with the seasons.
Sergey Makhno Architects have designed an apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine as a space for “imperfect beauty” to thrive. The Ukrainian Wabi Sabi. 5.0 apartment is designed to be a separate nest for a young couple within a bigger family compound. The architects studied the principles of wabi-sabi but were unable to come up with one consistent, articulate idea.
“By the way, not a single Japanese can accurately explain the essence of this concept ? it?s in their blood. Another version ? they wouldn’t want to as every family has its own understanding, which is kept in secret far from the other families,” the architects wrote. Their main understanding of wabi-sabi was this: to live a simple, conscious life, in harmony with oneself, with all other harmonies coming in gradually.
Things are concealed in the apartment ? the living room conceals a kitchen, the bedroom conceals a wardrobe, the bathroom is concealed behind glass. The architects explained that wabi-sabi entails letting go of “all the shelves with dozens of statuettes, even if one of them is a gift from your granny or your first love.”
They offered this idea as antidote to their hidden storage areas and drive to conceal objects and items: “And if you really like that granny?s ceramic cat ? it should be honored to be placed in the center of the room, not am...
Sergey Makhno Architects have designed an apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine as a space for “imperfect beauty” to thrive. The Ukrainian Wabi Sabi. 5.0 apartment is designed to be a separate nest for a young couple within a bigger family compound. The architects studied the principles of wabi-sabi but were unable to come up with one consistent, articulate idea.
“By the way, not a single Japanese can accurately explain the essence of this concept ? it?s in their blood. Another version ? they wouldn’t want to as every family has its own understanding, which is kept in secret far from the other families,” the architects wrote. Their main understanding of wabi-sabi was this: to live a simple, conscious life, in harmony with oneself, with all other harmonies coming in gradually.
Things are concealed in the apartment ? the living room conceals a kitchen, the bedroom conceals a wardrobe, the bathroom is concealed behind glass. The architects explained that wabi-sabi entails letting go of “all the shelves with dozens of statuettes, even if one of them is a gift from your granny or your first love.”
They offered this idea as antidote to their hidden storage areas and drive to conceal objects and items: “And if you really like that granny?s ceramic cat ? it should be honored to be placed in the center of the room, not am...
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