The project is the conversion of an 80 m² apartment for a family. Conventional apartment plans divide a small floor area into enclosed rooms, each with a single use. The design questions how much of that division daily life actually requires.
The existing frame of the building was left exposed. They divide the ceiling into bays and structuring the plan without enclosing it. Beneath, new gypsum partitions were inserted as free-standing planes that stop short of the ceiling. The gap above each wall draws daylight into the inner rooms and allowing air to move across the plan. The rooms are private at eye level, but ceiling runs continuously.
Three rooms are arranged in sequence according to light. The children's room, at the south, is the brightest. The owner's bedroom, at the centre, is reduced to low sleeping platforms and the closet, reached through the bedroom, receives only the light that falls in from above. The living room, by contrast, is given no fixed function and accommodates working, learning, dining and exercising.
At the entrance, a narrow hall leads to a raised platform, which replaces a wall as the threshold to the living space. The compact kitchen, in stainless steel and dark stone, is extended by a mirrored wall. The bathroom, dark and enclosed, is clad from floor to ceiling in a single stone surface.
The materials are deliberately restricted. Large-format porcelain slabs form a continuous ground through the shared and wet spaces, while birch plywood used in the rooms for resting. Dark stained timber is kept for thresholds and storage.