Name: Architect's micro studio apartment
Uploaded: 2020-06-07T17:58:56.000Z
Duration: 13 min 22 s
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There is a lot to be said for living in the city,

There is a lot to be said for living in the city, where you can have everything that you want and need

where you can have everything that you want and need right on your doorstep.

But there are challenges, city real estate can be very expensive.

And sometimes that means living in a smaller space.

Thankfully, good design can come to the rescue.

And that is exactly the case with this next, stunning apartment

that we're about to visit, here in Northern Australia.

Hey Doug, how's it going, mate? Hi, how are you?

Hi, how are you? Great, thank you! Really nice to meet you!

Great, thank you! Really nice to meet you! Nice to meet you too!

This is a very cool part of town that you're in, isn't it?

Now you're an architect, aren't you? Yes, yes I am.

So this must have been a really interesting opportunity for you to create something very special in your own home.

Yeah it was a bit of an experiment, so this used to be a

So when I came along and saw the plan, I thought that it could use an update.

Well, I am very excited to check out the inside of the apartment and see how you transformed it!

It's super-interesting the way that you've done all this.

It looks like that you've essentially constructed everything out of plywood.

Yep! I do want people to come in and see the apartment in

It's 28 square metres, it's roughly four and a half by six metres.

What was some of the key characteristics that you wanted to put into this apartment?

I think it was quite a primal instinct to

and then open up toward the light in the next room.

So coming in to the kitchen and seeing a glimpse of

So the existing condition of the apartment was really luxurious

in the sense that they had a full bath in the bathroom.

So, you know, the bathroom becomes a lot more utilitarian

And I've thought the kitchen should absorb a bit of that space.

and to provide a clear space within the internals of the apartment

we put in a beam and the beam runs across the width of the apartment

And what it does is it picks up the load from above

It's keyed into the walls on either sides,

and allows me to place walls as I want in the internal space.

And, talk to me about your kitchen space!

So I found that 1.8 metres is all you need for a kitchen.

then you find you have more than enough space

the dishwater is where you need it to be on the right.

And what about the storage in the kitchen?

it's just to give you that sense of space in the kitchen

and what happens is you can access it from both sides

so practically when you're reaching for food stuff down here

on the other side, there's a step-up that allows you to reach the items that are a bit higher-up in the cupboard.

It's really interesting what you've done here

because you've got these very beautiful, modern fixtures

But it's offset against the original brick in the building.

And I like what you've done here with the space for putting your shoes.

the detail was just to create an alcove for the shoes.

And then I see you're even hiding a washing machine in there as well!

and then it flows into a sort of threshold space.

And then before moving into the living space proper,

Right, so what I wanted to do is have the tiles

visually continue from the kitchen to the bathroom.

And then at the end of that you have this full height

into what is actually a very small space.

One of the things that I especially like in the bathroom is the way that you've done the lighting.

Having that light panel come through from the living room is such a nice touch.

and that feeling is intensified by the colour of the tiles

so what I wanted to do was to have light at both ends

So it's about contrast again offsetting dark against light

That is undoubtedly something that you have done very well in this space.

Now I am excited to see what you've done in your living space!

It's so interesting, the way that you've created

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