typology: apartment interior
year: 2020
location: Saint-Petersburg, Pushkinskaya street
status: completed
photo: Dmitry Tsyrenshchikov
An architect’s own home served as a unique testing ground for ideas. In this apartment, located on Pushkinskaya Street in St. Petersburg in a building from the second half of the 19th century, we worked with urban archaeology, systematically peeling away layers of plaster, wallpaper, floors, and ceilings. During this process, we discovered stove tiles and chimneys, newspapers in four languages (the earliest being French reports on the 1877 Turkish War), a colored facade of the hanging courtyard, and traces of bombs from the Siege of Leningrad. Here, we experimented with lighting and materials that would later appear in our other projects
