Just several kilometers from Kiev boundary by Zhytomyr road – and you are in a quiet, magic and scenic place. It is the traditional recreation area in Kiev suburbs. Monks used to settle little closer to the city in Svyatoshino district, while a number of recreation camps and complexes are a bit farther from the city. The most famous among them is “Peremoha” sanatorium, where war veterans still improve their health. The nature itself favours in this, with mixed forest around full of roes and hares, and birds singing from spring till late autumn.This perfect natural area was planned to be a place for a new medical sanatorium complex, but as this project was suspended, it became the basis for the new housing estate. Meticulous engineering inspection and technical state analysis proved that the new unfinished structures are in perfect physical and technical state. Moreover, high-quality concrete cores and foundation seemed to compel builders and planners develop a multifunctional housing estate. There is no doubt that nowadays the quality of life and ability to get various services with no need to leave your native area is of really high value. So by lucky chance this unfinished building took on a new life of recreation centre with swimming pool, fitness centre and a gym.
People who invest in this new housing are able to receive it at the earliest possible date, without any worries about delays. Such social infrastructure objects as kindergarten, sports club, internet café, restaurant, laundry, and arts school for children, shops, branch banks and even a little hotel for visitors are also raised within the complex. You can buy not only square meters of an apartment, but also conditions for future life for yourself and your children.
The last idea is the key for “Chayka” housing estate project ideologists. Preserving natural habitat, improving landscape they intend to gradually transform this area into a tiny but self-sufficient town outside a huge city, still in just five minutes from nearest Kiev metro station.But there is more. It is time to tell you about the spice of this complex, which can please any gourmet, seeking for a perfect place to live.
Forced to overcome technical peculiarities of buildings that have unconventional width and depth, designers of “Chayka” housing estate voluntary or not became the creators of the first lofts in Kiev suburbs – special types of apartments, which usually are created during reconstruction of large-sized buildings, originally oriented on other purposes. Mostly this loft nature revealed itself in two-storey apartments, which arose during completion of top floors. These two-storey apartments appeared not only as tribute to fashion, but also for satisfying the needs of the most exigent clients, who wished to have in the same place an apartment and small office for individual or family business, or a creative workshop for people of creative professions.
In this situation developers estimated large width of sanatorium structures (up to 24 meters) and building exposure to create certain peculiarities for apartment design. According to the norms every single living space in every apartment must have natural insolation at least for two hours on equinox days. Thus, the apartments must be oriented to any of the sunny cardinal points. The only option was to design apartments to be wide and of relatively large area and depth.
These unusual solutions caused not only large areas of some apartments, but also number of rooms or functional zones to appear to be inside the building. In order to improve the overall illumination of such apartments, windows openings were designed high, almost to the floor.
Project authors felt free to make use of the rooms, located deeply inside such apartments. In numerous American and European examples of such premises it is traditional to place artificially illuminated kitchens in deep rooms. But our norms do not allow this, so this idea was refused. So the ideal decision is to make use of these rooms in favor to spacious bathrooms and large cloakrooms – almost by every bedroom. Large cloakroom is also comfortable near the main entrance of the apartment – to store outerwear and bulky belongings, like strollers and bicycles.
Comparatively new for our market artificially illuminated rooms, like home theaters and gyms also fit into apartment planning. But one of the most significant advantage of such apartment is the ability to organize various personal collections. Pieces of fine arts, graphics, and sculpture need large walls to be arranged. Moreover, paintings dislike sunlight, for example, watercolor won’t last long in direct or even reflected sun. That’s why deep premises inside the building structure are irreplaceable for painters and collectors. Home theaters also don’t require natural illumination – light control, acoustic isolation from other rooms, and ability to setup and control numerous surround sound speakers are of importance. In these situations location of such rooms away from windows and outer walls is a plus.
Project authors took into account high demand on representative habitation for people, who are occupied with pop activity. That’s why some of apartments in “Chayka” housing estate are spaced up to 200-400 square meters and can be meant for well provided people, with many among them, who prefer to have private art gallery or home theater, a place to receive numerous guests and visitors, or to just have enough room to fulfill their fantasy and ideas.
Despite the unique features “Chayka” housing estate, located on an isolated guarded territory has, elite apartments are not an end in itself for project authors. New houses with apartments for moderate prices and spaces allow young families or elderly married couples to reside in comfort near natural forest with fresh air. And families with small children will not need to worry for their little ones, for the territory of the housing estate, isolated from roads and guarded, will keep them away from dangers of the city.
In houses’ planning there are many one- or two-room apartments of standard configuration; there are also two-storey mid-sized apartments as well as three-room apartments – for the middle-class clients. For all that, services in this mini-city will be equally provided for each and every dweller. The hotel with standard rooms and apartments is also planned in the housing estate, so everyone who wants to reside here temporarily or is on a business trip will be able to receive such services.
It should be mentioned that the apartments will be transferred on a turnkey basis, with several variants of decoration work, which the client must choose before moving into. The fact that most of the buildings will be put into service simultaneously will save its dwellers from life on a construction site for years. Only lofts will be finished a bit later, for they are designed and decorated individually by separate designer group, which began to work at the first stages of construction.
In whole “Chayka” housing estate makes a sensation of harmony with the environment and nature, with a modern life principle – the apartment is not an end in itself, but a harmony and guaranteed quality of life.
