The design of an apartment in a building still being constructed

A fundamental intervention in an apartment under construction in a development project on the outskirts of Prague is the significant simplification of its spatial layout. The square floor plan of the apartment is divided into two distinct, cross-intersecting planes. A full bearing wall separates the tighter entrance part of the apartment from the sunny living room. A row of columns divides the two parts once more in a perpendicular direction. When looking in its direction, the view – into the space behind the columns, into the kitchen on the raised step – remains hidden. It opens further, when passing through the apartment. In a similar way, the view from the living room back to the entrance is covered by the bedroom.

A perfectly readable layout solution – the bathroom is defined by translucent glass fittings, the bedroom is covered by a built-in wardrobe behind the columns. The visual qualities of the prefabricated concrete panels of the ceiling structure were used. Although of course they were supposed to be plastered, the panels were left exposed, only cleaned. The stainless-steel ribs of the lighting system prototype covered the technological joints and uneven heights of the panels. It mirrors the concrete structure and distributes low voltage to the sliding lights.

w: Jaroslav Mugrauer (carpenter)
photo: Alexandr Hudeček, Robert Žákovič