Letná Apartment

The transformation has been radical. The apartment, with a traditional layout subdivided into various rooms, has become – in keeping with the client’s wishes – a more open and fluid space, pragmatically ‘shaped’ without doors, but with passages and functional divider blocks. After stripping away the original partitions, the raw concrete structure has remained totally exposed, with the regular pattern of the ribbing on the ceiling, and a load-bearing column that divides the view of the kitchen zone in half. The concrete with its sandy color becomes bright white in the open zone for the dining and living areas. The dual everyday rhythm, day and night, private and convivial, is also marked by the insertion in the open plan of a large box with two dies faced in wood: in a teal color with a grosgrain surface, on one side it conceals the kitchen appliances, while on the other it provides space for the wardrobe of the bedroom, placed in the most secluded portion of the flat. The passage to the night zone happens along two different trajectories, one from the kitchen,