Sydney, Australia: This bold, sensitively designed 36 sq metre studio apartment in an art deco building in Sydney?s inner east. The initial brief was for a space suitable for short term rental, like Air BnB, however the result is equally suited to long term occupancy. 

© Kat Lu

Architects: Catseye Bay Design

Location: Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia

Area: 36.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Kat Lu, Courtesy of Catseye Bay Design

© Kat Lu

Sydney, Australia: This bold, sensitively designed 36 sq metre studio apartment in an art deco building in Sydney?s inner east. The initial brief was for a space suitable for short term rental, like Air BnB, however the result is equally suited to long term occupancy. 
Courtesy of Catseye Bay Design

Plan

The apartment is the work of Sarah Jamieson, Director of design studio Catseye Bay, who approached the brief through an open-ended, exploratory process, sitting in the space, allowing its possibilities to unfold, and seeing what it would yield/give up, before taking those ideas through model making and in-situ prototyping processes. 

Courtesy of Catseye Bay Design

The studio now functions as a one bedroom living space, revealing its delights and small moments slowly, over time. It makes clever use of bespoke joinery that dra...