Limdim House Studio calms Vietnam apartment with curved walls and arched niches
Architecture firm Limdim House Studio has renovated the Brown Box apartment in Vietnam adding curving walls, tiered cornices and terrazzo surfaces that aim to create a "calm" and "gentle" space.
Limdim House Studio reorganised the previously "commercial" two-bedroom apartment by removing walls to convert it into a spacious one-bedroom home named Brown Box.
Top: a curving arched wall divides the open plan living space. Above: terrazzo was used throughout the apartment
"The idea comes from the byname of the owner of the house, Ms Brown," studio founder Tran Ngo Chi Mai told Dezeen. "Since she also loves the colour brown, our idea was to create a living space as gentle and calm as this colour itself." "[We] processed the space with the aim of creating a new colour, a new breath to get rid of the boredom in commercial apartments."
The island is blanketed in terrazzo
As part of the opening up of the home, the studio removed existing walls and added curving partition walls in their place.
The curved walls were surrounded by stepped cornices as a modern take on crown mouldings that remove the harshness of corners in the open-plan kitchen diner.
The studio added new partition walls
The studio used a natural colour palette throughout, employing light browns, beige and wood tones to create a peaceful yet sophisticated look.
"We choose tones around brown and beige," explained Chi Mai. "when designing with th...
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