Munich architecture studio IFUB has overhauled a 1930s apartment in Vienna, uncovering unique details like parquet flooring and including contemporary lighting and black steel fittings .
Named Apartment S, the flat is positioned inside of an Art Deco-style mansion built in 1931. IFUB was tasked with renovating the area, but aimed to preserve its character in which attainable.
“The flat was discovered in good but time-worn problem when we got the commission for the conversion,” stated architect Bernhard Kurz. “In addition to the particulars identified in the flat itself, childhood recollections and a sturdy individual connection of the client to the place had to be deemed in the style.”
In keeping with the requests of the consumer, the architects made minimum changes to the floor prepare, and attempted to reuse present materials and furniture where appropriate.
Existing parquet flooring was uncovered, cleaned and waxed. Previous windows have been kept in situ, although original wall tiles were retained and reinstalled in distinct areas.
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In the kitchen, dividing walls were removed to open up the space. A black steel-frame shelving program was added, with created-in white cabinets to provide storage.
A black steel storage basket was also added above a wood-topped kitchen island that doubles up as a cooking and dining room. A set of rolling steel-frame shelves are also tucked into a nook outdoors the kitchen to provide additional storage.
“Details like the black steel frame appear in various elements about the kitchen,” explained Kurz. “Below the airy and hanging shelf, a single can now cook, sit and consume.”
The black steel-frame system was carried by means of into the bigger bathroom, in which cabinets and a secret door into one more space are disguised behind a wall of mirrors.
The old toilet space was merged with element of the hallway to create a 2nd shower space, where a lightly-coloured terrazzo floor was combined with white combed-plaster walls.
Getting removed the wallpaper in the living area, the architects painted the walls white and the ceilings grey – putting in strip lighting behind the coving to illuminate the area.
In the property’s entrance hall, the architects installed area-saving storage solutions, as properly as opposing mirrors designed to “enhance the area into infinity”.
Pale grey walls and illuminated white ceilings have been extra to help make the modest area feel as spacious as feasible.
Canadian designer Anne Sophie Goneau similarly created use of unique supplies and attributes in her renovation of a Montreal apartment created in 1910.
Photography is by Sorin Morar.
