CK Home by Office Zhu
CK Home is a minimalist apartment located in Shanghai, China, designed in 2021 by Office Zhu.
Description
There are already 240 million single adults in China, and the number of people living alone is expected to rise to 92 million by 2021. In Shanghai, the figure is close to 3 million.
This gradually expanding living alone population created a new market. Take-away apps, dating apps, pets…Services for single person are popping up all over the place, but the market is lagging far behind the times in terms of housing typology development. Most of the single apartment is more like an enlarged version of a dormitory than a customized design for adults. How to target emerging market, and design a distinctive, high-quality single apartment is what we want to explore in Blue Home. The apartment we faced has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, with all rooms organized by a central dining room with a simple flow. However, the dining room is located in the center of the apartment and lacks direct sunlight. To ensure the size of the bathroom, the width of the kitchen is sacrificed, resulting in limited operating and storage space.
This imperfect layout, originally designed for a family of three, could not be adapted to the needs of a single adults, so the team adjust the floor plan and programs to meet the client’s requirement.
Since the owner only needed one bedroom, and occasional visits from friends/parents made the other one unnecessary, the team removed a p...
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