A Toolkit of Wellbeing

The approach to residential architecture is no longer exclusively utilitarian. Bold design solutions and well-researched scenarios are replacing standardised housing developments. We understand how people spend their time, and much of our work centres on accommodating that time—both leisure and working hours. Through years of experience in creating masterplans, public spaces, and cultural centres, we learned to understand contemporary urbanites and provide them with engaging environments.

The Wowhaus-designed building in the ZilArt residential complex in Moscow exemplifies this approach. It is a strong architecture that blends perfectly into its context. The project was conceived as a boutique condo that caters not only for the apartments themselves but also for every other amenity: lobbies, landscaping, active frontages. Almost immediately after the building’s completion, shops and a dance studio opened there.

Ideally, residential architecture anticipates the buyers’ desires. It combines smart design solutions with carefully orchestrated scenarios for all eventualities.

Oleg Shapiro: “Our main objective is to create the maximum amount of useful space for people—and that does not necessarily have to be within the confines of a flat.”

Anna Ischenko: “We have a saying: in production, good and bad design cost roughly the same. The question is always how much experience, talent, and intelligence you invest in that design. Our habit of filtering any architectural ideas through the consumer experience, our knowledge of the product and its audience really does help enormously, allowing us to create living spaces that can truly become homes.”