Studio Apartment — Moscow
REGOLITH
A 25 m² studio where brutalism meets the moon.
Made of the same silence.
A studio for a 22-year-old engineering student. He asked for a brutal interior with a masculine character — one that wouldn't feel cramped. The answer came from the moon.
Concrete and the lunar surface are made of the same silence. Both are grey, matte and porous, and both carry the marks of how they came to be: the moon has craters from impacts, concrete has tie holes from the formwork.
Regolith — the grey, powdered skin of the Moon.
Morning light on steel.
In 25 m², brushed-steel volumes do the work of walls. They hold the kitchen, hide the doors, and a freestanding bar becomes breakfast table and desk — dividing the room without ever closing it.
More angles of the same room.
Burgundy, steel and antique mirror.
An embossed burgundy leather refrigerator anchors the kitchen. Behind the hob, an antique mirror splashback clouds the light like old silver, and three opal pendants hang over the steel bar like small moons.
Empty, and in use.
A threshold in rust and marble.
You come in through a brushed-steel door set flush into the raw concrete wall. Right beside it, panels of antique mirror reflect the room and open up the small hall, and a bench clad in Rosso Levanto marble gives you a place to sit down on arrival.
The wardrobes are faced in oxidised metal and close with handles cut from the same Rosso Levanto marble — a small, deliberate flash of colour in a world of grey.
An ordinary day.
Morning light reflected on the steel volume. Slow movements. Simply being in the space feels like a ritual.
Rock, tile and marble.
Where the studio is smooth and grey, the bathroom turns rough and dark, like the inside of a cave. Split-face stone meets glossy burgundy tiles lit from a recessed niche; a vanity in Arabescato Orobico Grigio marble carries a black stone basin.
More angles of the same room.
Concrete, steel and burgundy.
Raw concrete, brushed steel, oxidised metal, antique mirror and warm wood, with a few accents of Rosso Levanto marble. Burgundy leather is the one strong colour in the palette — it draws the eye and gives the space its character.
