Design team of Sergey Makhno and Butenko Vasiliy have completed the interior for a restaurant in Kiev, where you can fell like baby bird while drinking cocktail or have a dinner at tornado top. This restaurant can be classed as modern European and offers a molecular kitchen style dishes.

Twister Restaurant, image courtesy Sergey Makhno + Butenko Vasiliy

The main aim while designing this restaurant  space was to create an environment that is natural, modern and comfortable. This restaurant features two areas: a two-storeyed  dining section and relaxing bar area.

Twister Restaurant, image courtesy Sergey Makhno + Butenko Vasiliy

Two-storeyed dining section was inspired by two natural phenomenas:  tornado and  rain. The space features  six  tornado shape balconies which create one dynamical upper zone with five dining cells. Restaurant walls lined with wooden slats create contrast balconies smooth surface. Ceiling lamps imitate rain drops falling from the sky so complete atmosphere is very natural and ensures comfort. Spaces of the restaurant are calming  due to the natural tones which extend throughout the restaurant : beige, ochre, garnet, brown.

Twister Restaurant, image courtesy Sergey Makhno + Butenko Vasiliy

The bar itself is made of wooden sticks stuck together among themselves. This wall decoration creates feeling of bird’s nest where you can feel warm and cosy. Armchair design remind us coniferous cones and forest. The whole place is made for relax and changing people’s mind to meditative spirit.

Twister Restaurant, image courtesy Sergey Makhno + Butenko Vasiliy

+ Project credits / data

Project: “TWISTER”
Location: Ukraine, Kyiv
Total area: 421 square meters
Type: Interior | Restaurant
Main material: wood, concrete, metal, marble, plastic
Design team: Sergey Makhno, Butenko Vasiliy | http://www.mahno.com.ua/

Twister Restaurant - Lower layout plan, drawing courtesy Sergey Makhno + Butenko Vasiliy

Twister Restaurant - Upper layout plan, drawing courtesy Sergey Makhno + Butenko Vasiliy

+ All images and drawings courtesy Sergey Makhno + Butenko Vasiliy

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Designed by Gudmundur Jonsson Architects, the concept of Casa G is based on reading and feedback to the landscape it exists on. The characteristic landscape situation and view differences distinctively in each direction. Towards south the view to the sea and islands, towards north the characteristic triangular mountain, towards east the glacier and towards west the river and canyon.

CASA G, image courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects

Those elements are the creator of the project, the transitions between the landscape views giving the entrance from the north and the curved plan giving a vitalized focus towards the seaside in south. When turning back the north view towards the mountain is as well enhanced with the widening view due to the fan-shape of the tilting wooden wall, being a mediator between the northern and southern landscape characteristic.

CASA G, image courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects

The tilting is an answer and an interpretation of the glacier towards east, they are communicating and the only and huge window in that wall is creating “a painting” of the glacier experienced from the interior. The guest-wing of the building stretches to the canyon and the river towards west. Thus the building concept is a composition and dialogue of views and experiences of the various nature at site.

The House is constructed with in-situ concrete using special designed mouldings with pattern that derives from an interpretation of a special landscape feature in few Icelandic mountains.

CASA G, image courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects

This particular feature or structure of the mountain is called "Studlaberg" and is strangely enough associated with hexagonal pattern. The "Stuðlaberg" was the inspiration to the concrete mouldings. The wooden wall is in Zebra wood and was prepreparated outdoor in order to obtain the same weathered finish inside as outside. When the process during a year was sufficiently completed the wood aging/grayish-process was stopped with impregnation treatment. The boards are carved in different dimensions in order to create variety in the façade.

CASA G, image courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects

CASA G, image courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects

The ground floor and basement is covered with the Icelandic "Blágrýti" (bluestone) which is dark greyish-blue with minimal pattern and structure. When mounted without gaps in varity in lengths and deapths it gives a homogenic and neutral exclusive floor. Blágrýti is also used as wallcovering in particular places.

CASA G, image courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects

The 1.st. floor is covered with broad pre-treated Oak boards.
As often the staircase is a particularly important and sculptural element. In this case I felt the need of correspondance between the main floor and the staircase. The stair is actually constructed with steel frame and covered completely at all sides with the icelandic Bluestone. The stones junctions are all in 45 ° in order to obtain the massivity and homogeneus sculpture giving the impression that the stair was carved out of the mountain in 1 whole peace.

To emphasize this it was of utmost importance to have the glacing in one peace as well. Colors are kept in neutral tones and mostly inspired by the colors in the Icelandic nature.

+ Project: CASA G
+ Architect: Gudmundur Jonsson architects | http://www.gudmundurjonsson.no/

CASA G, image courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects

CASA G, image courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects

CASA G, image courtesy Gudmundur Jonsson Architects

Interior architect Mauro Brigham has completed reconversion of a water tower into a single family house in Belgium.

The history

In a small terrain of 16m width by 20m long in the middle of a flat Belgian landscape, raises a 30m high water tower built between 1938 and 1941 for and by the village of Steenokkerzeel. It has been in service until the beginning of the nineties and was used by the Nazis during the 2nd world war as a “tour de guete”.

Chateau d'eau, image courtesy Bham design studio | Photo by Olivier Papegnies

In 2004 a procedure was filled to protect and preserve the building witch the Royal commission for the protection and preservation of monuments and sites accepted.
The exterior of the tower was fully renovated to its initial state. Damaged concrete columns were repaired and painted, brick joints were completely removed and replaced and the windows in the floor top were enlarged.

The works for a complete renovation and conversion into a single family house started in 2007.

The program

The program foresees two distinct profiles of users. The private and main user is the client, a couple living at the tower daily. Once or twice a month, part of the building is rented for very exclusive events targeting management people looking for a place to make workshops, high profile companies that seek a unique place to meet top clients near by the airport. Every room is equipped with the latest IT technology, domotics and the possibility to install projectors virtually anywhere on the top floor.

Chateau d'eau, image courtesy Bham design studio | Photo by Mauro Brigham

Interior architecture

The preservation of existing concrete elements such as the main water conduct, concrete ceilings, concrete stairs and the 250.000 liters concrete water basin were essential to preserve the strong identity of the building.

Every visible concrete element inside was painted in dark grey in order to mark the old from the new. This choice works in both ways since it makes the contrast created makes both bright and dark stand out.

Chateau d'eau, image courtesy Bham design studio | Photo by Mauro Brigham

0 – Main entrance & garage (2 cars)

1 – Technical room, storage and utility

2 – Guest room & office
An envelope inside the envelope. The combination of vertical and horizontal wengé surfaces delineates the guest's bedroom area with its own bathroom.

Chateau d'eau, image courtesy Bham design studio | Photo by Mauro Brigham

3 – Bathroom
A central 4.5 meter high shower was created in the bathroom in order to maximize the water flow experience. Black tainted glass walls surround the walk in shower increasing the sense of intimacy.
Textile as visual separation from the cupboards was introduced to create a balance with the other “hard” materials and enhance the room's acoustics.

Chateau d'eau, image courtesy Bham design studio | Photo by Mauro Brigham

4 – Bedroom
This circular room with a dome ceiling hosts a revolving stairs leading to the upper floor and a full monolithic mirror dressing witch reflects the surroundings and gradually disappears.
Wengé wood flooring contrasts with the cold nature of the mirror surfaces. Light reflection on the wood bounces providing warm reddish tones on the walls.

Chateau d'eau, image courtesy Bham design studio | Photo by Jasmine Van Hevel

5 – Living room, kitchen and dining room
Impressive by its circular shape and large surface, the top floor affords some incredible vistas to the airplanes landing on the national airport just a quarter of a kilometer away.
The elevator block integrates a rest room, a library, the cat house and a cloak room.
Above the sculptural kitchen furniture, a steel bridge takes you to the terrace.

6 – Panoramic terrace
The terrace provides a full panoramic view and is equipped with raised IPE wood flooring and a shower.

Chateau d'eau - Lighting study, drawing courtesy Bham design studio

+ Project credits / data

Project: Water Tower Conversion
Location: Belgium
Construction : 1938
Beginning of interior works: 2007
Surface: 450 m²
Floors: 6
Height: 30m

Interior architect (Interior architecture, garden, terrace and coordination of the works): Mauro Brigham | BHAM design studio
Architect (Renovation of the exterior and structural works): Wouter Bilzen, MUNA
Photographers: Jasmine Van Hevel, Olivier Papegnies, Mauro Brigham

+ All images and drawings courtesy Bham Design Studio