Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti renovated a stone home on the Croatian island of Cres, inserting a picket slatted body that enables pure gentle to filter via the inside whereas doubling as “multifunctional furnishings.”
Aptly named the Gentle Home, the mission concerned gutting the three-story residence, which measures simply three by three meters and occupies a portion of a historic stone constructing.
OFIS Arhitekti centered on the verticality of the home, making a singular construction that might unite its three flooring and attic, whereas stopping it from changing into too darkish and compartmentalized.
“Inside a small quantity you can’t create Piranesian areas, so there have been two primary concepts: a formidable vertical 'lighthouse' area and a primary picket construction, like piers on docks,” mentioned Rok Oman, founder OFFIS Arhitekti, for Dezeen.
“A light-weight picket construction was inserted into the empty perimeter, which makes the home usable, and on the identical time, the inserted quantity capabilities as a single piece of multifunctional furnishings,” he added.
A central body of picket beams and posts helps the inside construction whereas containing the home's electrical companies.
This framework helps a collection of flooring slabs made fully of wooden slats, which permit gentle from each perimeter wall home windows and a brand new skylight to filter all through the house.
The format of the Gentle Home is knowledgeable by the normal homes of the realm, with a kitchen and eating space on the bottom flooring, a lounge that may be transformed right into a visitor bed room on the primary flooring and the main bedroom on the second flooring.
To create moments of privateness, every flooring has a personal alcove containing a seating space or mattress that may be closed off with curtains. Within the kitchen, built-in storage areas encompass a central island.
The home's current partitions have been left as discovered and painted, offering a stark distinction to the brand new woodwork in the home's pale-toned interiors.
“The fundamental determination was to protect the prevailing home as it’s a part of the historic city material and likewise to forestall any pointless exterior interventions to protect sustainability in all senses; from environmental air pollution to social and noise air pollution,” Oman informed Dezeen. .
Throughout the building of the mission, a “makeshift workshop” was arrange in entrance of the home, which turned a social area the place native individuals may have interaction with the carpenters.
OFIS Arhitekti is led by Oman and Spela Videcnik. Different current tasks embody a home completed in uncovered concrete and black brick and a loop extension to a modernist villa, each in Ljubljana.
The picture is by Tomaz Gregoric.