Copper Cube Haus Maharashtra, Mumbai Interior Design Project, Indian Modern Real Estate, Apartment Architecture Photos
Copper Cube Haus in Maharashtra
4 Apr 2022
Architecture: DIG Architects
Location: Maharashtra, Mumbai, India

Photos: Niveditaa Gupta
Copper Cube Haus, Maharashtra Mumbai
Copper Cube Haus is a second home for a professional with an itinerant lifestyle, this apartment was designed to create a sense of stability and repose between trips. The crux of the spatial intervention was the opening up the existing linear compartmentalised orchestration into an upbeat, almost studio apartment-like setting.

The hero of the narrative was the kitchen block that was delineated into a detached cuboid (free from the ceiling and walls) that would serve both as a bar/serving counter (from the living room side) and a cooking space. The distinction was intensified by sheathing it in copper ? giving this house its name: Copper Cube Haus.
The burnished cube overlooks the living area with its compact sofa and a small dining cum discussion table, while alongside it, a passage leads to the bedroom in which various volumetric strategies optimise its compact space.

Volumetric play rescues the bedroom at Copper Cube Haus from its modest dimensions by optimising space. The response is articulated as a modular birch-ply box that is strategically scooped out to accommodate various requirements in the form of built-in arrangements ? including a handy push-up bench between the bed ...