2024-07-17 07:56:34
The advantage of a panel apartment is that it can be reprogrammed and turned into a free space, say the architects from the RDTH studio, who, at the request of the owner, transformed the boxy layout of 74 square meters into clean and modern living. Their task was to design the reconstruction so that the furniture had a clear function and there was nothing extra in the apartment.
“Ms. H saw our work on TV. She contacted us the day after they broadcast a report on our project Architect’s Apartment. She has two sons, twins, and she is raising them alone. She told us that she would like us to her children invented an absolutely ‘clean’ and modern apartment,” describes the architect René Dlesk at the beginning of the collaboration on the reconstruction of a panel apartment in Prague’s Vysočany.
The advantage for the authors of the transformation was that the owner owns another apartment in Prague, so the work was not bound by a strict time horizon or the feeling that the craftsmen were disturbing the comfort of the family. “In the first steps, we were looking for how far the owner would let us in the renovation and what values should be reflected in the renovation. It was clearly a minimalism, even an ascetic approach to life, an effort to get rid of the first-plan decorations and the intention to leave space only for rational needs members of his family,” recounts Dlesk, who worked on the design with colleague Tamara Kolaříková.
Thanks to the dialogue with the owner, they realized that the division of the living room and bedroom is a custom that is rooted in society, but not everyone needs the division into day and night parts of the apartment. “It depends on the user and the circumstances of his life. Skipping some habits is legitimate when deciding on the future organization of the space in which you will live, and it can bring a number of advantages,” they explain. As a result, the living area and the bedroom are one and the same in the apartment, the function changes with the time of day.
Read the details of the solution in the gallery.