Stepped Volumes Apartment is a modern home located in Prague, Czech Republic, designed in 2021 by Ale Preda Architecture.

Description
The stepped-volumes apartment is a gut renovation of a unit in Prague, Czech Republic. The design process and construction took place during the Pandemic, and, as a result, the design team was never able to visit and experience the site physically. The entire process, from ideation to final completion, was managed remotely.
The brief required recalibrating the spaces within the 80 square meters apartment. The original floor plan had only one bedroom, and two bathrooms were awkwardly opening into a large foyer. The unit was in complete disrepair and lacked modern systems and fixtures, requiring a gut renovation. Moreover, the client wanted to add a study/guest bedroom for remote work and had a shoestring budget. Our solution developed a playful, site-specific architecture deploying ?inserted elements? to house new programs, modified the circulation, reused existing elements (e.g. doors and flooring) wherever possible, and introduced interior openings to bring light into darker spaces. All solutions needed to be simple, functional, and budget-conscious.
Firstly we reorganized the program by shifting the kitchen shifted South to free up the windows for the new study. The new galley kitchen is compact but functional and receives natural light from an interior window overlooking the new study/guest bedroom. A stepped tall cased...