Penthouse
Shortlist 2021About Project
Our client appointed us to completely remodel and refurbish their 1990s penthouse. The response to their brief saw us rationalise the existing layout of the space, improving the flow through individual areas and introducing a dramatic new suspended mezzanine floor beneath the vaulted ceiling.
Our vision for this structure was to introduce a sculptural object hung from the existing postmodern steel arch which connects the two former warehouses making up the outer shell of the space. We wanted it to distort the proportions and scale of the volume between those walls, making it visually more interesting and yet balanced, and breaking up what had previously been a very linear treatment of the living space.
The resulting shape evolved from a desire to challenge the linear canvas on which we were working, creating a volume that challenges the existing rectangular planes of the floorplan. Instead, a series of geometric juxtapositions, diagonals that project towards the existing planes but never reach them, redirect the viewer away from the original constraints – with the resulting curves of the mezzanine providing a cocoon-like enclosure.
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