C&D Residence
-2024
Pudong, Shanghai
The project is located in a 70m2 two-bedroom apartment within an old residential neighborhood near the Huangpu River in Shanghai. Given the compact nature of the existing unit, the design emphasizes connectivity and openness, integrating a minimalistic design approach with soft modern elements to reflect the ordered yet refined tastes of the owners.
The public area is both defined and constrained by two existing beams on either side of the living room and a small window opening for natural light. The design carefully rearranges the furniture layout turning the sofa so that it sits parallel to the window, giving more space to the living area. This arrangement also allows natural light to penetrate deeper and to filter through the glass brick wall creating light refractions as well as a sense of dynamic layering in the interior spaces.
Under one of the existing beams, we extended the TV wall into a larger curvilinear volume that subsumes the concealed bedroom doors and MEP equipment placements. The volume acts as a threshold softening the transition between living room and bedroom as well as between the entrance foyer and living area. The use of floor-to-ceiling wood and textured lacquer panels aims to create an elevated sense of vertical spatial extension in the living room, whilst giving detail and elegance to the space.
Inside the bedrooms there are extensive built-in storage spaces in the sleeping areas, as well as a separate walk-in wardrobe. The walk-in wardrobe is finished entirely in white with the exception of a black framed opening which acts as a point of interest, offering a visual connection from the room into the clean and airy walk-in wardrobe.
The public area is both defined and constrained by two existing beams on either side of the living room and a small window opening for natural light. The design carefully rearranges the furniture layout turning the sofa so that it sits parallel to the window, giving more space to the living area. This arrangement also allows natural light to penetrate deeper and to filter through the glass brick wall creating light refractions as well as a sense of dynamic layering in the interior spaces.
Under one of the existing beams, we extended the TV wall into a larger curvilinear volume that subsumes the concealed bedroom doors and MEP equipment placements. The volume acts as a threshold softening the transition between living room and bedroom as well as between the entrance foyer and living area. The use of floor-to-ceiling wood and textured lacquer panels aims to create an elevated sense of vertical spatial extension in the living room, whilst giving detail and elegance to the space.
Inside the bedrooms there are extensive built-in storage spaces in the sleeping areas, as well as a separate walk-in wardrobe. The walk-in wardrobe is finished entirely in white with the exception of a black framed opening which acts as a point of interest, offering a visual connection from the room into the clean and airy walk-in wardrobe.
