Structure studio Balbek Bureau has revamped a home in Ukraine utilizing stainless-steel and concrete to create a contemporary interpretation of a log cabin.
The three-bedroom cabin was constructed from horizontally stacked logs, which the designers saved on show all through the inside.
The Kyiv-based studio aimed to deviate from standard cabin interiors, as a substitute creating an industrial, utilitarian scheme knowledgeable by the model of American designer Rick Owens.
“The pre-existing inside was in a traditional log cabin model,” Balbek Bureau informed Dezeen. “The logs had been a lighter shade, nearer to the pure wooden color – the furnishings was largely made from wooden as nicely with conventional country-style shapes dominating the inside.”
So as to lend itself to a extra industrial end, the studio trimmed the inside of surplus logs and timber.
“Our purpose was to attain a clear geometry of the house with as little additional traces as doable,” mentioned the studio.
“That’s the reason we eliminated a part of the log beams that weren’t load-bearing – we did the identical with non-bearing partitions to create an open house on the primary ground.”
Microcement flooring and project-bespoke furnishings items equivalent to stainless-steel consoles had been added to the areas to distinction the standard log partitions.
Classic lounge and eating chairs from the proprietor’s personal assortment had been added to character to the areas, which had been hung with work belonging to the consumer.
The glass-fronted entryway accommodates a staircase comprising timber planks cantilevered out from wall. Past, the kitchen, eating room, residence workplace and lounge are contained inside one fluid house.
The cabin’s building is most obvious within the double-height dwelling house, the place logs kind tall bookcases accessed by a sliding steel ladder. These flank a tapered fire constructed from concrete blocks, on the foot of which sits a big couch.
The usage of concrete continues within the kitchen, which is dominated by a monolithic kitchen island flanked by floor-to-ceiling stainless-steel cupboards.
Plywood panelling replaces logs within the curtain lined theatre room main off of the kitchen.
Trendy, black-framed home windows had been put in all through the constructing, with vertical home windows added within the residence workplace and eating room to carry extra daylight into the house.
Unique ceiling beams had been left uncovered to focus on the cabin’s unique building.
Recalling the sofas downstairs, the main bedroom encompasses a sprawling custom-made mattress that sits low to the ground. Its upholstered sides had been bolstered by stainless-steel consoles much like these within the theatre room.
Retro lamps had been added as a playful touches together with a bulbous standing lamp that arches over the mattress.
A moveable mirror-panelled display on castors sits in opposition to one wall, and a picket mid-century console references the warm-toned timber-clad partitions.
All through the home black radiators, ceiling lights, window frames and energy retailers punctuate the rooms.
The 2 bedrooms on the opposite facet of the cabin retain the dark-toned log partitions of the lounge, adjoined by metal cabinets and contrasted by mushy, padded sleeping nooks.
Each of the bogs are a stark distinction from the remainder of the interiors, with virtually no picket finishes in any respect and housing white fixtures.
“[Relogged] allowed us to work on rethinking the reasonably established and conventional type of a log cabin,” concluded the studio.
Different cabins featured on Dezeen embody A-frame cabins in a distant Canadian forest by Atelier l’Abri and a cabin clad in ash wooden on a rocky outcrop in Norway by Line Solgaard Arkitekter.
The images is by Andrey Bezuglov and Maryan Beresh.
