Metal panels with a bright red finish cloak the warehouse-like forms at Prostir Business Hub in Ukraine, completed by local studio Aranchii Architects.
Located in the village of Zymna Voda on the outskirts of Lviv, the 12,000-square-metre logistics hub provides commercial, office and storage spaces for business real estate company Alterra Group across a trio of buildings with curved gable roofs.
Focusing on flexibility and modularity, Aranchii Architects designed three separate volumes – one smaller and two larger – with steel roofs supported by grids of concrete columns that allow them to be easily subdivided and reconfigured.
These warehouse-like buildings were cloaked entirely in metal panels with a bold finish informed by the Falun red – a pigment named after the Falun Mine in Sweden, traditionally used on Scandinavian barns.
“While some of our other projects in the country were suffering damage from attacks, the challenge here was to maintain high architectural quality within the constraints of a wartime budget and logistics,” chief architect Dmytro Aranchii told Dezeen.
“The choice of the deep Falun red colour was intentional: it creates a bold dialogue with the natural greenery and acts as a landmark of stability,” he added.
“It echoes the traditional geometry of private gabled houses, grounding a massive 12,000-square-metre complex in a landscape that is both pastoral and strategically vital.”
To create different scales of internal space, the form of each warehouse was subdivided, with a single asymmetric gable roof at one end splitting into three separate gables in the larger volumes and two in the smaller volume.
According to Aranchii, this subtle transition via curved roof ridges was intended to combine a more “human scale” frontage facing the road and a more typical industrial scale at the back of the site.
Inside, the red tone of the exterior is carried through into red-painted steelwork, which provides a bold contrast to the white-metal ceilings and exposed concrete columns.
“We wanted to symbolise how distinct companies form a shared ecosystem,” Aranchii explained.
“By evolving from human-scale gabled modules into the continuous horizontality typical of logistics, the architecture creates a bridge between the private and the corporate, giving a recognisable identity to what is usually a generic typology,” he added.
Facing the road, large glazed openings allow for the creation of showroom spaces, while several smaller entrances and openings along each building’s long edge ensure light and accessibility is maintained regardless of how they are divided internally.
Aranchii founded his eponymous practice in 2008 and is based in Kyiv, where the studio recently revealed a proposal for an undulating church and community air raid shelter in response to the ongoing Russian invasion.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, Oksana Dolgopiatova recently completed a gallery-like lawyer’s office in Kyiv and Replus Bureau renovated a 20th-century villa in Lviv.
The photography is by Alik Usik.
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