Overview
A compact city apartment — the kind that had been subdivided and re-divided over five decades — was stripped back to its structure and completely reimagined. The starting point was a question: what is actually here, and what should be here?
Challenge & Context
Years of minor alterations had obscured the apartment's original logic and left it a sequence of poorly proportioned, poorly lit rooms. The challenge was to recover the spatial potential within a fixed building envelope — and to do so on a limited renovation budget.
Design Concept
The design consolidates circulation to free up living, creates a contained kitchen core that frees the main space entirely, and uses a consistent material language — white plaster, dark-stained timber, exposed concrete — to give the apartment coherence and a sense of deliberateness it had never had.
Outcome
The apartment now reads as a confident, well-proportioned urban dwelling. The living area, which previously felt fragmented, now functions as a single continuous room with direct daylight from two aspects.
