We have all had such an experience: they go through the windows in a living room with a high ceiling with a light and feel energetic. Even inspired. Or they step through the door of a cozy bedroom with soft lighting, a plush carpet and layered textiles, and their shoulders relax – in fact, their entire system seems to slow down. This is emotional design in action: the idea that the design of the houses (and offices) in which we spend our time can have a strong impact on our moods and even our behavior.
For the architect and interior design, Anne Lukan based in Chicago, it is a second nature to create interiors that not only look beautiful, but also cause the emotions that want to experience their residents. “What I do is very personal,” she says. “I come to someone at home and influenced his daily life, her everyday life, from the little moments to the larger, long -lasting memories.”
Lukan approached the redesign of a Pueblo-style house in Scottsdale, Arizona, and offers and improves the mood and attitude of its owners.
“You can feel the way you justify it.”
Today it is a well-accepted concept (one that is supported by a series of scientific studies) in which the surrounding landscapes and a lot of natural light reinforce the well-being sie can reduce their blood pressure, reduce anxiety and lead feelings of calm. “Early conversations with my customers ride this feeling of lightness that they wanted to create for themselves,” recalls Lukan. So she used every opportunity to present the desert and mountain views in the circulation of the Scottsdale house.
The key was, of course, to integrate as many windows as possible – and Lukan had a specific aesthetics: luxurious size, but a modern, minimalist design that made the landscape speak for itself. Direct glaze windows from the modern collection of Marvin with its thin metal frames, expansive sizes and clear lines provide elegance, “without the focus from the room and the view beyond,” she says. “Finding paths to catch the light to convey a feeling of lightness, air and airiness was something that we tried very hard with.” In the bedrooms (including a floor room for future grandchildren), a lounge room in the Casita style, and the kitchen, the windows from the Marvin modernism, coordinate with the elegant appearance of the direct glaze versions, but open and close with a rotating handle to dismiss the desert porridge.
To reflect on the colors outside, Lukan layered the interiors of the house with furniture and fabrics in natural tones and integrated a lot of wood. “You can feel as it justified. We were very intended to choose colors that were stopped,” she says. “This is something that we were careful about in every single room: is that ground?
“There is a lifting moment.”
The organic Pueblo style of the house is characterized by rounded walls, liquid curves and different floor and ceiling heights. Lukan played with scale and designed an organic, wavy layout to get a feeling of amazement and inspiration while traveling from the door of the house towards the central room, with new details and visual delicacies appear in every curve. “The carving of these rooms, the soft arches – when they come into the house, there is a feeling that gives them this moment of the procurement. There is a lifting moment. As soon as they come in, the room opens for them. And if they go through every easy corner, the house reveals to them.”
“Very protected, very intimate.”
Although the house is spacious and the landscape in which it is in the middle of the middle, Lukan ensured that the homeowners had the opportunity to withdraw to a place of calm and contemplation. “One of the beautiful, underestimated moments of the house is that there is this private, almost secret garden of a breakfast terrace right in front of the front entry,” she says.
The terrace is accessed by a curved window wall, which is initiated with a glass ultimate, narrow, narrow swinging door from Marvin. And although the area delimits the house – usually a very public space – it is sunk and partially enclosed by outer walls and landscape design, which offers a feeling of seclusion. “You have this perfect opportunity for a personal coffee for two,” says Lukan. “It feels very private, very protected, very intimate.”
It is another example of why the rooms in a house look beautiful, work efficiently and reflect the everyday life of the residents, says Lukan. “But it's also about creating a supportive level for their most beautiful, special memories of life.”