A 45-year-old brick house with one underground floor and two above-ground floors.
The view under the roof, revealed by removing the ceiling, seems to unfold the traces of the time spent together in a panorama.
Where to place the kitchen and dining area. Or where to place the master bedroom. Those two questions are the beginning of this project. The answer lies in the conditions of the site, where the view and lighting improve as you go up.
It was decided to place the kitchen, dining room, and small living room, where the housewife and children spend most of their time, on the second floor.
On the first floor, there is a master bedroom with a 50-cm-high floor, a children's room that will be used when the child grows up, and a media room for playing games and watching TV, which is connected to the small living room through an arch. This small living room again has a view of the outside garden.
By providing a visual connection to ‘media room-living room-exterior garden’, a deep sense of space will be created despite the juxtaposition of small spaces. The secret small garden of a single-family home in the city is bent into an L shape and located in the most intimate area. The floor and walls are finished with bricks to match the 45-year-old brick walls.
As you go up the stairs to the second floor, the view of the neighborhood comes in through the window frame. And the structures under the roof that come into view. The floor beams, connecting beams, purlins, and rafters are exposed as is. The connecting beams and purlins were cleaned and applied with natural oil, and the remaining parts were treated with paint, as if some traces of the past were stuffed and only some of them are connected to the present. In this way, the linear elements separated from the surface become floating natural materials. Lighting to ensure illumination is also designed and manufactured from materials similar to old wood and hung from the ceiling.
While the windows on the first floor provide minimal ventilation and open toward the southeastern garden, the windows on the second floor are framed to capture the scenery of neighboring houses. Narrow spaces are layered with arches to create a deep sense of space.
