Native agency Notice Design Studio has overhauled a Twenties flat in Stockholm, including sound-absorbing marble flooring, mouldings knowledgeable by the eaves of the constructing and custom-made furnishings.
The studio renovated the condo, which is positioned in a constructing designed by structure studio Höög & Morssing within the early Twenties, to create an inside that “may move for the unique”, it mentioned.
The studio made important modifications to the ground plan for its renovation of the 350-square-metre Habitat 100 condo.
“The most important modifications had been made to the sensible areas and the reception rooms,” Notice Design Studio architect Jesper Mellgren informed Dezeen. “The doorway was awfully tight in relation to the scale of the residence, so we rearranged the ground plan with a view to create a beneficiant atrium with clear steerage in the right way to navigate the condo.”
Notice used greyed wooden to mark the non-public areas within the flat and separate them from the atrium, lowered the ceiling and eliminated the flooring to create higher acoustics.
“To succeed in the anticipated stage of acoustical enchancment all flooring needed to be eliminated with a view to strengthen the joists and put in 100 tons of marble gravel,” Mellgren mentioned.
“Then we casted a brand new flooring in the entire condo to attach the brand new wooden and marble flooring upon. For the ceilings, we wanted to create new ones indifferent from the unique slabs.”
Situated in central Stockholm, the home that the condo is in was constructed in the course of the Swedish Grace period, a romantic, refined fashion motion within the Twenties.
By way of inside design, Swedish Grace was “very a lot in regards to the architectural promenade — implementing new findings whereas exploring a flooring plan,” Mellgren defined.
Notice Design Studio nodded to this concept in its renovation of Habitat 100, which additionally options a number of references to surrounding buildings.
“Strolling by way of the condo may be very a lot a journey of discovery the place each house has distinctive qualities influencing its design,” Mellgren defined.
“We borrowed so much from the instant environment for apparent references to the fashion of the constructing and its context,” he added.
“As an illustration; the radiator covers are balcony railings from the neighbouring constructing, the ceiling mouldings are much like the eaves of the constructing, and the ground patterns are impressed by entrance door ornaments within the space.”
The studio used a supplies palette of marble and several types of wooden to create a peaceful ambiance within the flat and match the opposite supplies used within the constructing.
Swedish Ekeberg and Brännlyckan marble was utilized in elements of the flats in a nod to the communal stairwell, which is clad in Italian marble.
Wooden was additionally used all through the flat. “As a distinction for social areas and bedrooms we used oak to carry heat and tranquility,” Mellgren mentioned. The studio stained the oak to attain the precise color.
“Two valuable woods, mahogny and wenge, circles the cross-patterned oak flooring to imitate conventional Swedish flooring laying,” the architect added.
Notice Design Studio additionally aimed for the furnishings chosen for Habitat 100 so as to add “one other layer.”
“We had been lucky to be trusted with designing a variety of custom-made furnishings for the totally different areas; nightstands, desks, mirrors, tables and washstands, which gave us extra management within the creation of a vivid coherent expression,” Mellgren mentioned.
The studio used LED mild strips, hidden beneath the ceiling mouldings, to create gradients of sunshine and shadow on the partitions.
The purpose for Habitat 100, so known as as a result of it was designed nearly precisely 100 years after the constructing was accomplished, was for it to by no means be demolished.
“This undertaking may be very a lot about restoring the residence to one thing real and applicable for its authentic structure,” Mellgren mentioned.
“The principle purpose is for this inside detailing by no means to be demolished or changed, nonetheless being private to the consumer and exploratory for us find a recent inside that was conceivable 100 years in the past.”
Othe current tasks by Notice Design Studio embrace a restaurant in a historic Stockholm meals corridor and a warm-hued wine bar that doubles as an workplace.
The studio has additionally designed a variety of furnishings and lighting items, together with the streamlined Sprinkle pendant lamp for Zero Lighting.
The pictures is courtesy of Notice Design Studio.
