Lviv studios Sanina Arch Membership and Gubar Architects used a “mixture of contemporary and native traditions” for Krasnyk Home, a vacation cabin within the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine.
Krasnyk Home’s type mimics the everyday structure of the Hutsuls – an ethnic group from the mountains of western Ukraine – and blends it with modern supplies and finishes.
“In the course of the mission, we now have researched the origins of native structure, Hutsul customs and the tradition of the area,” stated Sanina Arch Membership founder Alina Sanina.
“Our intention was to construct that type of cottage, which might match harmoniously into the native fashion – that’s the reason the cottage appears prefer it already was within the village 100 years in the past,” she advised Dezeen.
Sanina Arch Membership and its sister studio Gubar Architects set Krasnyk Home on a concrete plinth on the high of a steeply sloping website.
It appears south in direction of the village of Krasynk from a terrace elevated on slender black-steel columns and sheltered by the massive angular roof.
Krasnyk Home’s exterior and roof have been clad with black-metal panels with standing seams, providing a up to date tackle the picket planks that might sometimes wrap the realm’s cabins whereas contrasting the encompassing panorama.
Coming into from the extra enclosed northern facet, an entrance corridor leads into a big dwelling, eating and kitchen area with a glazed nook that slides open to the terrace.
A freestanding hearth, roughly plastered gray partitions and darkish picket ceiling are meant to create the sensation of a “cosy retreat” for this dwelling space, in addition to being a nod to the timber constructions of conventional mountain cabins.
A central picket staircase separates the dwelling area from a bed room to the east and leads as much as an attic bed room. Right here, a panoramic triangular window offers views out throughout the panorama.
“Once you enter the home, you instantly really feel consolation and peace. That is the right place to chill out from the hustle and bustle of the noisy metropolis,” Gubar Architects founder Sergii Gubar advised Dezeen.
“Within the inside, we mixed traditions with fashionable life – comfy dwelling situations and luxurious design are solely two options which remind you about metropolis life.”
Sanina Arch Membership and Gubar Architects are primarily based in Lviv. The continued Russian invasion induced their operations to come back to a halt in 2022, however they’re now persevering with to work whereas dwelling “underneath the missile strikes and air raid sirens”.
The groups accomplished Krasnyk Home in 2020 however just lately determined to publicise the mission in gentle of the warfare.
“We predict that this mission continues to be essential to share,” they advised Dezeen. “Throughout Russian aggression, Ukrainians should defend not solely our land but additionally our tradition and traditions.”
Different mountain cabins featured on Dezeen embody a mission by Heliotrope Design perched on a rocky outcrop in Washington State and a purple timber-clad construction by Byró Architekti.
The images is by Andrii Shustykevych.
