STJR

A small inconspicuous house located in Bratislava's Trnávka district, once the infamous working-class part of Bratislava's Ružinov district. It's an area with a welcoming scale, although its urbanism stems from an overly utilitarian densification of small buildings and at times feels cramped.

This was also the original condition of the interior of the house. It had a sensuously knotted layout with small functional units knotted through the entrance spaces. The rooms of the day part were separated by a hallway, while the night part was connected to the rest of the house by a dark corridor that led through a sanitary knot. This led to a significant crossing of functions, which did not suit the owners of the house.

The design untangled the tangled layout with extensive structural alterations, thus aerating the space and more clearly defining the private and public zones. At the same time, it brought into play the dominant white colour, which illuminated the entire interior. The result was a staged, deliberate insignificance with the possibility of refining the space to reflect the lifestyle of the young couple and their active urban life, love of art and "street style".

The atypically designed layout responds to the aforementioned lifestyle of the inhabitants. The entrance takes place in medias res - the front door, hidden behind a curtain, leads straight into a living mono space that divides the built-in furniture into functional units. The operational flow circulates through the kitchen on one side and the dining room and living room on the other, then continues through a bright corridor to the bedroom and garden terrace. The toilet, bathroom, staircase and spacious storage underneath create a functional buffer zone between the day and night areas. Sensitively arranged furniture solitaires function as accents completing the overall design.