Starting challenge for designing this apartment is certainly its irregular shape yet, here are my basic thoughts throughout the designing process:
MULTIFUNCTIONAL UNITS/ BRIGHT SPACES/ FREE WINDOWS/ CHANGEABLE AREAS/ OPEN SPACE/ VISUAL EFFECTIVENESS/ LOTS OF BOOKS
Main asset of this space are windows!!! 4 large windows that open this space across two terraces towards the city. That is why the priority set is to use these windows and organize spatial units around them. Of course, bigger the amount of light, brighter the space, so all windows needed to stay free, and spaces connected. Disposition of central space/ living room, dining room and kitchen/ is set around bigger terrace. That way the terrace itself became part of the room. On the other side smaller terrace and master bedroom remained attached to itch other, together creating the privacy of their own. That way small area in between has been created. In order to let additional light in central area of the apartment, spatial diversion is created. Small study is set as regular room, but space behind it is imagined as multifunctional unit that functions as back space that can be used to storage things, easily adaptable into strongly spatially defined guest room /back space+ study/. Existence of this area allows possibility to have different directions and ways of using the space by providing privacy and connecting similar zones together. This is achieved by using rotating wooden panels that have role of partition walls and doors depending on how space is used. This way of organizing the apartment offered diverse impressions of created areas. Even beside the fact that materialization is same in the entire apartment, movable elements, rotated panels, light and shadows provide the possibility of seeing the unique picture depending on functional needs.
And here comes the irregular shape of the apartment.
In order to reduce surface of partition walls, they were placed only to define spaces that need to be closed/ bathroom, launderette, to separate master bedroom from hallway. In this process spatial pockets are created on joints of existing walls and newly positioned. These pockets are filled with shelves. This way shelves filled with books became part of the wall itself, a vivid picture that gave the entire apartment the personality desired.
Ceiling is designed flat, to keep beams invisible in the interior.
Materials. Wooden furnishing, Hard Wood Flooring, white walls, Mediterranean Old World hand texture.