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Shkrub House

Sergey Makhno Architects

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Client
Sergey Makhno
Floor area
370.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

Shkrub house is a place where the main thing is not the color of the floor, but the kids' noise. Shkrub is a thatched house for Sergey Makhno's family built in the contemporary Ukrainian style under the influence of the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi that finds beauty and harmony in imperfections. The coolness of clay on the walls will absorb all the worries, "urgent-s" and "necessary-s". The ceiling is decorated with wood taken from 11 old abandoned houses. A huge window in the living room offers a panoramic view of the garden. On the shelves — a collection of ceramics from the Trypillia era. The pattern of the carpet was created by Sergey's middle son Hikaru when he was less than two years old. There are two kitchens — opened and closed — they are made according to old Ukrainian traditions. The table, for example, was born in 1935 and was serving as a dining point of several generations of a Hutsul family. The planning is simple and ergonomic. The bedrooms on the second floor are filled with Kaws and art-toys DIDO by Sergey Makhno. Every wall in the head of tatami-bed is wrapped in beauty: handmade wallpaper, an allusion to a clay cliff, or a designer ceramic tile. Everything — unique. Made by one person for another. “When in five thousand years, archaeologists from other planets will dismantle my house, they will say that it was built according to ancient Ukrainian traditions. That there was a lot of nature, and a lot of life”, — says Sergey Makhno.