Reconstruction of the Solidarita Apartment

Reconstruction of a three-room apartment in a 1960s building. The building is brick, but the layout of the apartments is typically panel-like. In addition to the usual shortcomings, such as excessive narrow hallways and many doors, this apartment had one specific feature: the reversed arrangement of rooms concerning the cardinal directions and the internal layout. For some reason, just like in the other apartments in this building, the bedroom was located on the western, brighter side, connected by a door to the kitchen. The larger living room was on the eastern side, where the windows are additionally shaded by tall trees, and it was separated from the kitchen and bedroom by a small hallway. The living, "showcase," room was as separated as possible from the kitchen's operation and oriented towards the street, as was customary in traditional layouts, which, however, was already outdated at the time these buildings were constructed.
Thus, the goal of the reconstruction was to free up the layout as much as possible, to create a fluid space within a relatively small area, where rooms and their functions connect logically and according to the current needs of the young family living here. This necessarily led to the demolition of all the partitions; the typical hallway between the room and the kitchen disappeared, allowing the bathroom to be slightly enlarged.
The central area of the living room is left as open as possible; its space is defined on one side by an inserted box made of white OSB boards, which forms a wardrobe, and on the other side by a black OSB wall, which hides the block with the kitchen and the core with the bathroom and WC behind it. The only traditional door leads from it to the children's room. The bedroom can be closed off by new sliding doors hidden in a pocket in the wardrobe wall, and another sliding door between the living room and hallway, reaching up to the ceiling, will be placed in a pocket prepared behind the black wall in the living room, but only when the children grow a bit, and the glass doors will no longer pose a danger to them.
To use the space as efficiently as possible, almost all the furniture is custom-made, including the dining table, which also serves as a workspace when the computer monitor on a movable arm is tilted to the appropriate position.
Fortunately, the oak parquet was in relatively good condition; however, in the living room, it was necessary to disassemble it and sand down the concrete floor to eliminate height differences of up to two centimeters between the original rooms. The PVC in the kitchen, hallway, and ancillary rooms was replaced with cement screeds, which also appear on the walls, in the kitchen behind the counter, in the bathroom, and in the WC.