Interior of an apartment in Warsaw

The interior of an apartment for a young acting couple is located in a building that is part of a new residential complex. The originally designed layout underwent a radical transformation. Due to poor communication with the construction company, the already built partition walls were even demolished a week after their completion.

We can understand the design itself on two levels: rational and irrational.

Rational level - new spatial solution. By placing the glazed bathroom in the center of the layout, the apartment gains a new dimension, an open space full of light replaces the previously designed dark and cramped rooms. The individual functions - entrance, bathroom, kitchen, dining room, living room, and study - are distributed in one common space, while the toilet and bedroom are set apart. Additionally, a rotating wall can be used to separate a room that can serve as a guest room.

Irrational level - experiment. We divided the apartment into two parts by a banal yet honest boundary line, which is also “abstract” in its placement without any connection to the space or designated function. Both fragments were designed according to different architectural strategies. The wooden part is strongly linked to the spatial and layout solution, which the material used follows and gives it exclusivity, in the sense of an inserted background contrasting with the second white part. That part is a play of independent solitaires ready for “inhabitation” by the owner.

By assembling these strategies together, we wanted to test whether architecture is capable of accepting collisions, contrasts, conflicts, and various unrelated approaches, whether it is possible to choose and then not be slaves to the chosen. With exaggeration, we can say that the concept of this design was the freedom of choice.