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Entwurf • Design Temp Project, UA-Kiew/Kyiv
Bauherr • Client 13Laser, UA-Kiew
Standort • Location Dzhona Makkeina 1, UA-Kiew/Kyiv
Nutzfläche • Floor space 160 m 2
Fotos • Photos Yevhenii Avramenko, UA-Kiew/Kyiv
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13LASER CLINIC

IN KIEV

„Gegensätze ziehen sich bekanntlich an.“ Anastasiia Tempynska has created a fascinating cos-
mos by fusing two essentially different worlds. She
Anastasia Tempynska combined futuristic details with fleshy materials, made
nature and technology merge and pure and rough
materials establish an exciting and yet harmonious,
even “beautiful” connection with sharp-edged and
smooth ones. Perhaps beauty will save the world, as
Dostoyevsky once said.

T he question about and the yearning for “beauty” is in the air. What
is beautiful and who is allowed to determine what is beautiful?
The answer is always in the eye of the beholder, so they say. Even if the
“beauty industry” tries to dictate a norm, it doesn’t actually exist. It is
precisely this realization that Anastasiia Tempynska implements con-
ceptually in the choice of her materials and forms in space. The mood
of the five treatment rooms and a larger space that can be booked by
couples or friends ranges from that of a clinical laboratory to that of a
wild, primeval natural space. A feeling of security and “being in good
hands” arises immediately. Here you can let yourself go and trustin-
gly surrender your body and skin to the chosen treatment. The skin is
the largest and most diverse organ of the human being. It protects the
body from environmental influences and helps it to perceive its sur-
roundings. It also reacts to touch, friction and radiation, and changes its
surface and colour. The designer makes subtle reference to this. Struc-
tures and colours are reminiscent of the most visible human organ: the
skin. Tempynska does not commit herself. This openness is conveyed
atmospherically. The combination of shapes and colours in this laser
clinic is just as surprising as the sensation of beauty is able to occur
unannounced and away from the given norm. Objects and furniture
are specifically designed and manufactured for this place. Everything
is unique, including the people in it, and therefore beautiful, if you
will. Tempynska used a palette of muted grey and white tones for a
minimalist background. The angular mirror on wheels was designed for
“selfies”, whereas the custom-made neon sign refers to the pulse of a
laser. Tempynska worked for several design studios before founding her
own office. Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 left her without
work for a short time. Here, too, she displays admirable openness and
flexibility. Her own imaginative and creative power in dealing with this
political situation, which she cannot change, is tangible in these rooms.
Beauty is then not just superficial and can also be found in one’s very
Grundriss • Floor plan own attitude, in one’s very own view of this increasingly complex world.

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