About the project
On the left bank, where city and nature just touch, a couple wanted a place to truly withdraw without leaving the city. Baigal is built from discarded shipping containers and, inside, reduced to three materials: blackened wood, red travertine and lime.
Vertical blackened wood clads walls, cabinets and doors from floor to ceiling. It absorbs the light and closes the stay around two people. Ceiling and floor remain light and matte, in lime plaster and a grey poured floor, so daylight reaches deep inside.
The red travertine runs through the space as one continuous band: it folds into windowsill, desk and basin, and returns in the bathroom. Washing, writing and sleeping each find a place at the window, with the landscape as backdrop. A cowhide, a cane seat and stone bowls complete the whole.
About the materials
Placed vertically, blackened wood, in the spirit of shou sugi ban, clads walls and the built-in furniture, and sets the calm, restrained tone of the stay. Against it stands red travertine, fiery and energetic: the contrast is deliberately sharp.
That contrast has a purpose. Where the wood lets the space rest, the stone marks what happens there: worktop, basin, splashback. Linen cushions soften the whole.
A space of your own in mind?