Designed as a space with clean lines and futuristic contrasts, the K6 apartment integrates the needs for comfortable living of a four-member family, into a contemporary and airy design.

Approaching the renovation of the apartment as giving shape to a lifestyle, we were guided by two key architectural motifs in the design – shaping the views, and playing with natural and artificial light. In this regard, the project pays special attention to details such as colour and lighting, which gave the apartment a unique and dynamic character.

Led by the comfort bright spaces offer to users, in addition to white walls of simple geometry, we emphasized the connection of the day and night zone by introducing built-in lighting into naturally darker parts of the apartment. In this way, lighting fixtures take on the role of natural light and direct movement and gaze towards the depth of the apartment through straight strips on the ceiling.

Geometrically clean and calm white surfaces of walls, built-in cabinets, carpentry and lighting are playfully accented with the design of the surface-edge contact, so the surfaces can be seen either as continuous white mass, or as multiple surfaces joining at the corners. With the play of surface and linear elements, the transitions between rooms and zones are emphasized or hidden, whereas rectangular strokes are carried throughout all three dimensions of space.

While the spaces of family gatherings are dominated by white surfaces, toilet and bathroom units are created as dark ambiences with highly reflective surfaces. Using dark tiles, the bathroom and toilet are seen as the starting and end points of the hallway towards the night zone, while separately functioning as extravagant dark pockets within a bright space.

The built-in lighting in the toilet emphasizes the rectangular geometry of space, while together with the mirror creates the illusion of greater height, forming a light halo-like effect at the top of the room. With the effect of double height achieved by the ceiling mirror, the smallest room in the apartment is designed almost as an unexpected ambient portal into a futuristic reality. It is precisely through the use of lighting and shifts of light and dark surfaces, like in the rest of the apartment, that the spaces of the usual function have acquired an unusual character that corresponds to modern housing needs.