Reconstruction and interior of a panel apartment

photo: Pavel Svoboda

The interior and reconstruction of the panel apartment were designed in a minimalist industrial spirit. The design respects the original structural system - the reinforced concrete skeleton, which is elevated as the main concept of the interior and revealed in its raw form. The roughness of the interior design is maintained in the materials used. The main materials creating the technical industrial impression of the interior are natural birch plywood, glass, stainless steel, and gray marmoleum. Only the exterior walls, the load-bearing reinforced concrete skeleton, the skylight, and the risers from the original structures remain, which we kept in the middle of the layout as a joke, completing the concept of the industrial interior. The pipes are painted white and provide heating.
The layout of the apartment is conceived as a generous open space with sliding partitions. In the middle of the layout around the home skylight, where all the installations for the apartment run, there is a core with a kitchen, bathroom, and WC. From the entrance hall, we enter the living room, the bathroom, the WC, and the bedroom in the northern part of the layout. The bedroom is also accessible through sliding doors from the study /guest room/. The living room with the kitchen, dining area, and study forms a generous western wing across the entire length of the apartment. The design takes into account the possibility of additional separation of the study space from the dining area with a mobile partition and from the bedroom with a built-in wardrobe - creating a separate children's room. The bathroom and WC are visually connected to the kitchen by glazed skylights. All atypical built-in interior elements, including the kitchen and library, are made of birch plywood with stainless steel details. The backsplash above the kitchen countertop is made of lacquered glass, as are the doors to the living room. The bathroom and WC are in black and white; the black round mosaic is combined with large-format white seamless tiles and black built-in cabinets under the sink and for the washing machine.