Towering, pale wood volumes hide the functional elements of this apartment in Melbourne, Australia which has been overhauled by local architecture studio Edition Office.
The Melburnian Apartment ? which is shortlisted in the apartment interior category of this year's Dezeen Awards ? is set within a residential building in the Southbank neighbourhood, overlooking the city's arts precinct and royal botanical gardens.
Prior to Edition Office's intervention, it had featured several rectilinear rooms that were awkwardly crammed into the apartment's crescent-shaped floor plan.
The Melburnian Apartment is arranged around volumes made from oak wood
The studio was asked by the young couple who own the apartment to create a less restrictive, easy-going layout that was more suited to their often unpredictable social lives. After knocking through a majority of the existing plaster-board partition walls, Edition Office decided to tuck away the functional elements of the home inside a trio of full-height storage volumes.
A kitchen is hidden behind one of the volumes
"The design response is inherently simple, refined and calming ? which restores and creates freedom," explained the studio.
"Circulation drifts and flows around the formal partitioning elements, allowing for a space with no doors," it added. "In this way, the clients move from sleep to morning coffee to home office to showering to washing to working to thinking in a continually evolving and smooth loo...