Ground floor apartment

A small apartment building near the Bratislava Calvary was built in the second half of the 1950s for its employees by the State Institute of Transport Planning. Its composition is simple, with six identical three-room apartments arranged mirror-wise across three floors, along with a small studio and a duplex apartment in the attic. The outwardly utilitarian mass of the apartment building, however, hides generous and airy living spaces that have gained their unique atmosphere over the years. The goal of the reconstruction of the ground floor apartment, or rather just its "facelift," was not maximum functional use of its entire floor area, but rather the adaptation of the existing functional operation into a new artistic and architectural form. This resulted in a layout where the day and night zones are not strictly separated. Two separate rooms in the northeast and southwest parts are intersected by the space of the kitchen, entrance hall, and living room.

Ground floor apartments in the city center, however, generally suffer from weaker sunlight compared to others. In an area where, alongside smaller residential units with gardens, mostly family and villa houses are located, the design reflects the surrounding environment: all window openings were lowered almost to the level of the doors, and along with the construction of terraces accessible from the kitchen, living room, and bedroom, combined with the planting of surrounding greenery, an atmosphere of a family house was created in the middle of the apartment. The new form of the ground floor apartment design thus develops the potential of its original architectural solution while enhancing its spatial quality. The apartment/house combines family living with urban center life.

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