Pre-existences and conditions

• an anodyne flat from the 70's with many small rooms (one of them 1,7m wide!)
• complicated distribution of the floor plan with residual corners, loose columns and dark corridor
• very ugly existing wardrobes, shelves, cabinets (that the owner needs and can not afford to change in this stage) are against some of the walls
• the flat overlooks to a very noisy street
• the client has a small collection of paintings that would like to place along the walls

Concept and solution

• eliminating some partitions leave a clean, loft-like room (only kitchen and bathroom are kept)
• (for functional need the middle wall was kept in the second version)
• wet rooms are treated externally to look like 'boxes' cast in the loft room
• colour, texture and a line of fluorescent lamps on the upper edges remark the boxes
• all the room (except the boxes) is covered with a curtain bringing unity to its irregular shape
• the curtain hide irregularities, columns and existing furniture and help to reduce the exterior noise
• the tube of the curtain is used as rail to hang the paintings; flexible, easy to use and no need to drill