A beforehand hidden central lightwell funnels gentle into this formerly dark and enclosed condominium in Athens intended by community architects Level Supreme Architects.
Located in the centre of the city on the sixth floor of a 1980s Athenian polykatoikia — a concrete household block produced up of family members residences with tiered balconies — the two-bed room Trikoui apartment is owned by a younger pair.
Earlier, the condominium was tiny and cramped with smaller rooms and corridors, and normal light-weight and views outdoors were being very constrained. The house owners desired to open up up the inside to build a brighter house that was much more suited to contemporary dwelling.
Level Supreme Architects reworked the floor approach to build a one, open up-system house that combines the living, dining and kitchen places.
Central to the renovation was creating use of a earlier enclosed light-weight shaft that pierces as a result of the centre of the apartment.
The architects put in generous home windows on all four sides of the concrete shaft, which now provides light-weight into the apartment’s formerly dim inside.
“These produce cross-deep views via the condominium, and create interesting light-weight consequences through the program of the working day just one can adhere to the total system of the sun from dawn to dusk,” the studio explained to Dezeen.
In the absence of partition partitions, a number of vibrant constructed-in custom made household furniture parts support to define various zones and features in the open up-program room.
These involve a storage wall designed from stained environmentally friendly plywood that operates together the complete duration of a single side of the condominium.
A light-weight-pink kitchen with a marble countertop wraps the central lightwell, even though a nearby cupboard island in dark pink houses appliances.
The bespoke picket eating desk with a steel frame that operates together with the kitchen doubles as a kitchen area island with a red Corian hob space.
“The purchasers also like to cook and have close friends above,” explained the architects.
“So we determined to open up up the kitchen area and ‘spread’ it into the house, so that cooking and planning a meal becomes a social action, related and at the coronary heart of what is heading on in the apartment. It is not even a space, but a assortment of objects.”
The entrance spot is wrapped by a timber framework monitor and a wall of dazzling blue wardrobes span the hallway amongst the two bedrooms. The gold curtain that conceals the apartment’s study is an aspect that appears in lots of of the studio’s jobs.
“It is a extremely unforeseen, ‘formal’ factor that appears in an informal way, in the periphery, in a comparatively non-descript room,” spelled out the studio. “So the curtain inverts this ailment and inspires a playful angle.”
Flooring finishes also aid to define the diverse areas: a mosaic floor outlines the kitchen area region, while an oak parquet is employed in the course of the residing region. Blue square tiles and stone are utilised in the bogs and a pink epoxy-paint flooring marks the entrance.
“Color and elements are utilised through the place strategically, to formulate figures of the numerous constructions, furnishings, things,” the studio claimed. “They function by complementarity they organise associations and oppositions.”
“Just one of the to start with aspects that was made the decision upon was the pink-coloured light-weight shaft, which performs in continuity with the warm, picket flooring of most of the condominium. The lengthy inexperienced-stained plywood storage wall has texture, which contrasts with the delicate-pink color of the shaft,” the studio ongoing.
“The distinct colours and textures get the job done differently with the mild, some reflect and some absorb it, so the space truly performs fantastically with the unique gentle ailments, all through the system of the working day.”
Issue Supreme Architects, established in Rotterdam in 2008 by Konstantinos Pantazis and Marianna Rentzou and now centered in Athens, is recognised for its use of vibrant colour, sample and texture.
In 2015, it included patterned tiles, geometric screens and a bright yellow staircase to a further condominium in the Greek cash to develop a Postmodern inside.
Images is by Yannis Drakoulidis.
