White Lines
Architecture: Archimatika
Project type: Residential complex
Timeline: 2017 – present time
Status: Project
Total space: 125 000 sq.m
Location: Ukraine, Kyiv, 1 Vasylkivska St
Team members: Dmytro Vasyliev, Aleksandr Popov, Rustam Gorpenyuk, Marina Bosenko, Yulia Seredenko, Oleksandr Stolovyi, Y. Naumenko, K. Maliiova, A. Simonov
Award and recognition: The first project in Ukraine was shortlisted in the nomination for the prize by WAF (World Architecture Festival) - Shortlist in nomination Commercial mixed-use - future project, 2018
A residential complex in which residents are provided with everything necessary right on the spot. Three high-rise apartment buildings stand on a two-story stylobate in the corners of the site in the places offering the best views. The stylobate part of the complex houses all sporting and entertainment establishments and its roof is used as a private courtyard for the complex’s residents.
The most comfortable format of a residential complex, when you can leave your apartment in slippers and go downstairs to a supermarket to buy some bread, or go watch a movie in a robe in the evening and swim in a pool in the morning.
The shopping gallery of the first floor of the main facade is deployed to the city. Providing needs in shops, cafes, pharmacies and attracting buyers not only among residents of the complex, but also the entire area.
The surrounding locality was launched, so this complex rehabilitates the area and brings new infrastructural functions into the city life, to serve the residents of the area.
Horizontal lines on facades combine all parts of the building into a single whole, resembling a thread which tightly embraces the façade in some places, and becomes wider and recedes a bit farther elsewhere. The strips on facades have a functional purpose, serving as the screen for air conditioners.
