Framework Apartment

Happy Pigeons Co-living / September 2018 – May 2019 / 120 sqm / Housing (Renovation)

An old apartment in Berlin is renovated to match the needs of its future users. Half-finished partitions form extended thresholds between bedrooms and shared spaces. Plywood platforms create flexible storage units to house books, clothes, to provide seating and opportunities to display and inhabit. A new kitchen is organised around a red dining table, fixing its importance as the centre of this home. On weekends and holidays, the asymmetrical table can be moved into the middle of the room to provide extra space for parties and celebrations. 

Colour is used throughout to highlight particular, important moments within the apartment. It defines a person’s private space, emphasises a new intervention and sometimes calls up an old detail, leftover from previous occupants. Missing tiles in the old kitchen floor are celebrated, or at least accentuated, while vignettes of old paint, plaster and wallpaper make appearances on the bedroom walls.