The Matsuki Residence Interior in Orange and Yellow Decor

HEAD Architecture and Design is the Hong Kong based architecture firm who has designed this beautiful apartment interior located in the Discovery Bay area of Hong Kong. The matsuki residence was designed on a tight budget with limited time, two unexceptional apartments have been combined to form what is essentially a single, dramatically conceived space.

This is a new home for a new family, in which the rituals of family life – bathing, playing, eating, sleeping – can be thoroughly re-evaluated, with an open-plan sequence of simple flexible spaces facilitating the informal flow and changing requirements of an expanding family.

Like a blank canvas the spaces are currently rather bare but, as the family grows and memories are created, the walls will quickly fill up.

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Austrian Architecture Apartments Building Project Rose am Lend

Located in Graz, Austria, The Rose am Lend is an architectural apartments building project which is consists of 11 apartments that offer urban living spaces in a high-class and the business premises on the ground floor follow the distinctive tradition of commerce and trade, as well as the tradition of the Lendplatz as a market place.

The design of this architecture apartments building borrows from the existing building and includes a rose motif which is a reference to the time when the building was constructed during the baroque period in the 18th century. The building is part of the development and transformation of one of the most complex areas of the city of graz.

Project Details :
Architects: INNOCAD Planung und Projektmanagement GmbH
Location: Graz, Austria
Project Architect: DI Oliver Kupfner
Project team: DI Martin Lesjak, DI Roland List, Reinhard Schütz, DI Margit Spreitzer, DI Bernd Steinhuber
Site area: 509 sqm
Constructed area: 1,085 sqm
Budget: 980,000 Euro
Project year: 2005-2008
Project year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Paul Ott

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Modern Minimalist Apartment Interior Decorating Ideas

Ozhan Hazirlar has designed this cool collection of modern minimalist apartment interior decorating ideas to spark your creativity and style. Making the small space of an apartment to be look more elegant, fresh and feel big is one of the biggest challenges that we have. One of the most essential ways to make an apartment seem clean, big and open is to make sure it stays organized.

Making a small apartment into your own personal comfortable living space is easy and affordable. Color is one of the great tools we have for making spaces look and feel a certain way. Another way to give some pop to the room is to choose an accent wall. This nice modern minimalist apartment collection might inspire you in designing your own apartment interior decoration.

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Valentin Apartment by Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec

The Valentin apartment is an interesting modern minimalist apartment design ideas features a suspended room within the center of the apartment has been designed by Parisian architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec.

The transformation of this small appartment has above all been strategic : Decompartmentalize the place so as to fit out an open plan and elude the demand of an extra room by conceiving in the center of the volume a suspended white cube which generates comic and disconcerting use situations.

This former artist studio caracterised by a difference in height which shares the volume from a simple to a fake double height (3.70 m under ceiling in the main room) had been originally marqued by a awkward mezzanine under which one couldn’t be up and had, to get on it, to pass through a small doorway managed into a separating wall existing between the 2 volumes.

First step the plan is freed from all occurrences. The matter is to work on a 50 m² appartment in which the variety of orientations, volumes make possible unusual, uncommon living situations.

The restraint of the demand of the client to fit out an independant bedroom has been turned into an advantage by putting this intermediary room in a central position, straddling the two floor levels, disconected from the floor. The bedroom becomes an islet in the heart of the appartment around which you can turn, experimenting different moods : up / down, below / above, on / under and revealing unseemly uses.

The bedroom, connoted as the archetype of privacy, intimacy, becomes an object of curiosity by transgressing his symbolic value, appearing like an anomaly. Open and visible from the entry, it stands for a huge inhabited furniture. Facing the dining room, it can be used as a “bumrest” or a bench.

Suspended right in the center of the appartment, leaving untouched the floor and the circulations around, it divides the space, reversing the perception of the atmosphere in the appartment by making private what is usually not : the living room. Wherever you stand below or above, it truncates the perception of the occupiers bodies of whom one only sees the legs sitting, crossing or walking around in the place.

The suspended bos is made of a metallic structure (section 40 x 40 mm) covered with wooden panels. The cube – as well as the floor, the walls and the ceiling, has been painted with a white polyurethane resin.

Visit the website of Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec Architects - here.

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Screen Apartment Interior Design by Alfredo Sirvent

This spacious bright and covertible apartment in Madrid, Spain was designed by Alfredo Sirvent. The long hallway presented a great opportunity to create a convertible apartment depending on the owners needs.

A series of maple wood screens can open or close different spaces of the apartment, making it able to include the hallway to the rooms, closing the rooms or even creating an open space.

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Lace apartments, Slovenia by Ofis Arhitekti

This Lace apartments is the latest building by slovenian architecture firm ofis Arhitekti located in the centre of Nova Gorica (population 32.000) – Nova Gorica is situated in the west of Slovenia, adjacent the Slovene – Italian border. It lies 92 meters above sea level. The town has also very specific climate conditions – it is renowned is the hottest town in Slovenia in summer and very strong winds in winter.





















This Lace Apartments uses a three-dimensional lace which embraces the volume of the building. this lace concept is also uses for functional elements such as roofs, pergolas, dividing walls and balconies. these provide protection from the elements and privacy for its inhabitants. Additional aluminium shading panels can be added to shelter the balconies in the winter.




















The building is positioned on the fixed urban plot 48 x 16m x 5 floors. The formal concept reinstates three-dimensional lace which embraces the volume of the building. Furthermore, the lace is transformed into functional elements – projecting roofs, pergolas, apartment dividing walls, terraces and balconies with loggias. These elements are protecting external spaces and interior of apartments and provide additional privacy to inhabitants. Five floors of housing incorporate 70 two, two and a half, or three-bed apartments while two underground floors provide parking space.



























Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Design Year: 2006-2007
Construction Year: 2008
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik
Design Team: Rok Oman, Špela Videčnik, Nejc Batistic, Martina Lipicer, Andrej Gregoric, Katja Aljaz
Client: Kraski zidar, Sezana, Slovenia
Constructed Area: 10.250 sqm including parking
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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10th Street Apartment by Slade Architecture

This 10th Street Apartment by Slade Architecture is an apartment for a couple with two children. The couple had a three-bedroom apartment and bought the one bedroom apartment next door. The woman is a graphic designer and has her office at home. The client wanted to bring as much natural light into the apartment as possible.



























We use the two existing load bearing brick walls to define three zones. The adult’s area on the north, the children’s suite on the south and the public/shared spaces in between. Service blocks subdivide in each zone for different functions.

The north and west facing adult suite occupies the area of the newly purchased one bedroom apartment. This contains the master bedroom suite, the home office, a laundry storage area and the guest bathroom. The shower has a translucent wall to allow light into the bathroom from the bedroom. Cabinets on the north side of the bedroom define a walk-in closet area.



























The wood paneled central block contains the master bathroom, storage and laundry spaces all of which are accessible through operable wood or glass panels/doors. It also defines a passageway between spaces and contains the bedroom door.



























The children’s suite occupies the existing two bedrooms and bathroom of the original apartment. The bathroom block defines the two bedroom areas within the large open zone. Doors allow the spaces to be separated for privacy. A clearstory in the bathroom to allows natural light from the west facing windows into the smaller bedroom area and into the bathroom.

In the central shared space the kitchen block creates functional areas for living, dining and entertainment. A large new opening in the existing brick wall on the north side connects the two apartments and provides a generous entry space. White paint on the brick walls creates a brighter space while keeping the texture of the brick.

Awards:
Loft e Appartamenti, (Barcelona, Spain: Atrium Group, 2003)
Upstairs, Downstairs, New York Sun, Thursday July 24, 2003, p.17
UPCOMING: Colorfulness (Beijing, China, 2005).

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