Custommade

"Solvallagata68" is a residential project commissioned by a very friendly and social family who is used to host friends and relatives on a daily basis. For this reason the design concept’s goal was to create a spacious open-plan living area encouraging family members and their guests to spend time together. In order to reach the client’s needs it was necessary to demolish part of the wall, which divided the kitchen and the living room, drastically changing the old layout.The custom-made kitchen is developed along the three perimetral walls in order to optimize the room’s layout and create an empty area in the middle of the room, necessary to facilitate dense people flows. The white Corian countertop faces a wide window that b... More

For the Duxton Hill office brief, we were presented with a three-storey shop house that had previously been used for a very typical office space — carpet tiles on the floor, small, dark claustrophobic rooms, blinding florescent lighting and little natural daylight to work with. Yet, despite this, the building has a rich history and some beautiful architecture. Wanting to give the historic shop a renewed freshness whilst remaining sensitive to its original character and features, we started by stripping everything back to the bare minimum, in doing so opening up dark corners and reinvigorating the space.At the ground floor, we wanted a strong focal point that would bring some wow factor. The obvious choice was to make use of the natural ligh... More