HOUSE CUBE

Imagined as a place where the family get together, this custom single-family home presents a volumetric, sleek architecture dressed in a wood skin

This impressively designed modern living space, a family home, is made by using maximum natural materials. A contemporary family house designed to look much bigger inside, in Bucha, Ukraine. The main idea of this house located in the pine forest at the Kyiv region was to save the natural landscape. Several factors influenced the design solution including the necessity of a two-car parking area inside the house and the desire to save the beauty of the natural landscape. For the construction of the house, the cube concept was used in an optical illusion so that the home looks much bigger. The house has 240 sqm, divided in two floors, garage on two cars; living-room, dining room, one bedroom, two kids room, and two bathrooms. The home’s colour palette is composed of neutral tones like warm light gray and oyster white, in order to give prominence to the furniture. There is a large window placed in the kitchen-dinner-lounge zones for the family members to enjoy view of the pine forest. Second-level lighting adds airiness of space. This idea line is supported by stairs of special construction on the second floor: it, in fact, does not occupy much place and railing of crashworthy glass makes it almost weightless. On the ground floor there is a spacious living room, dining room with the big table for all family members and a comfortable kitchen. The kitchen, the dining zone and the living room are combined in one open space. It was designed such that the owner’s extended family could gather to cook, read, hang out, eat and enjoy each other’s company. The ground floor comprises the parking space and a double height unified space containing a spacious living area, the dining area and the comfortable kitchen. On the first floor, the private zone containing the master bedroom and two children’s room is located. To keep unity with the natural surrounding environment, part of the walls of the double-height living room is made by glass from floor to ceiling, enabling the house to fill up with daylight and allowing great views of the pine-trees outside. Viktoriya Yakusha has used natural materials, such as wood, wool and linen for most of the details, so as to create a calming and cozy environment inside the house.