Home Design - A Passion for Living

162 Pages·2013·32.37 MB·English

by  Geirge Lam

a passion for living
including lounge design projects
George Lam
isbn 978-988-1887-53-5
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Apartment
HW
Apartment HW
by Bottega + Ehrhardt Architekten GmbH
Nellingen, Germany
about 180 sq. m.
_ _ _ Photography David Franck Photographie
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The reconstruction of a young couple‘s upper floor apartment
inside the family owned house form the 1970‘s, located in
Ostfildern - Nellingen (near Stuttgart), was designed as an
architectural commitment to minimal, white modernism,
consciously contrasting the former decorative style of the
habitation.
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Reorganizing the functions by pulling down an existing, curved
wall, enabled an open space from the entrance over the living
and dining area towards the kitchen and terrace.
The two private bedrooms operate as separate units (parents
and child), both provided with a bathroom and reachable from
the entrance area. A hinge door allows access to a corridor,
facing a bathroom window covered by a mirrow coating and
giving access to the circuit of dressingroom, bathroom and
bedroom. One enters the living area along an angular cabinet
wall, hiding two existing steel columns, and focusing on the
old „flower window“, now converted into a frameless box type
window. At the same time the room narrows down till the end
of the wall, to spread up into 3 different directions. A deep
illuminated incision into the cabinet wall intensifies the spatial
alteration of width and narrowness. The kitchen is designed
along the existing horizontal window and framed by floor to
ceiling elements on both sides.
All fixtures are crafted in white finished MDF, imparting
homogeneity throughout every room, supported by a jointless,
grey mineral composite flooring to accentuate the continuous
space.
The lighting concept supports the impact of the space by using
diffused and linear light.
Design Firm Bottega + Ehrhardt Architekten GmbH
Architects Bottega + Ehrhardt Architekten GmbH
Giorgio Bottega / Henning Ehrhardt
From the existing entrance hall of the building the reworked
Project Architect Anja Richter
Design Team Giorgio Bottega / Henning Ehrhardt / Anja Richter – Project Architect
staircase opens up to a radical redesigned, bright and light-
flooded new apartment. Client Private
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Madison
Square Loft
Madison Square Loft by Desai/Chia Architecture
New York, U.S.A.
370 sq. m.
_ _ _ Photography Paul Warchol Photography
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