00:05The property is located in the city of London, in an area called Camden Town.
00:19Originally the house was conceived as a family home.
00:23Ten years ago it was subdivided in three separate flats.
00:33This is a loft space, which is in the top floor of the property.
00:40The brief of the project was to have an open plan space, but at the same time have different spaces
00:47with privacy.
00:56The building is occupied mainly by young professionals as the area is quite vibrant.
01:03It's one of the most touristic areas of London.
01:09It's full of bars, restaurants, nightclubs.
01:14Amy Winehouse used to live literally around the corner.
01:20The original area of the apartment were 40 square meters.
01:25And then with the project we included a new mezzanine, which added 14 square meters.
01:30So at the end we ended up with 54 square meters of area.
01:38When we found the flat it had a small kitchenette and it had a small bathroom.
01:43The first thing that we did was just to scale up the volume in the middle in order to create
01:48different private spaces.
01:50But everything within the same open space.
01:55The first space that you discover once you come up from the entrance is the open plan kitchen and dining.
02:06Immediately in front of you, you have a long unit where all the appliances that doesn't require any height are
02:13located.
02:15You have the dishwasher, oven, cooker and the washpacing as well.
02:23We also decided to have some open shelves for the kitchen.
02:27It's nice to see some of the elements when you are cooking without opening cabinets.
02:37Immediately to the right of the kitchen is where the opportunity was to allocate those higher appliances,
02:43like the fridge freezer unit.
02:48Also some storage.
02:57And most importantly you have what we used to call the coffee temple,
03:02which is this niche with a coffee machine which we really loved.
03:13The living room is one of our favorite places of the design.
03:19When you are sitting in the living room, what you see is just a big gallery.
03:26And then when you actually see into detail, you find a staircase that leads you to the sleeping area.
03:36We also have a small balcony together with a big window facing to a very green area of the property.
03:48The sleeping area is located in the central part of the apartment on top of the volume.
03:54The bed sits flat on the floor. It's a Japanese style bed.
03:58And the idea is for it to be hidden by the parapets that surround the central volume.
04:03So you don't see a bed popping out.
04:09It also has a working space area with a foldable desk to create more space when it's required.
04:18The great thing about this mezzanine is that you can actually visualize the whole space from this platform.
04:27As we are sitting in a loft space, the heat tends to go all the way up.
04:31So these skylights allow the air to come out.
04:37The bathroom is located within the central cube.
04:42It is the only place of the flat where we decide that a bright shade of colour was required.
04:48Because it's contained, it doesn't have any natural light coming through.
04:54The cabinetry of the bathroom is also very simple.
04:58And it's completely covered with a mirror to make the space feel bigger.
05:06I think design in small spaces is quite challenging.
05:08We need to create flexible, usable spaces which will allow you to use the space in a very clever way.
05:16Using single and minimalistic lines has always helped make the spaces feel a little bit bigger.
05:24London has grown from 7 million habitants to 8 million habitants in the last 10 years.
05:30That means that we require more flexible and dynamic spaces in order to accommodate this growing population.
05:39properties that used to be a single family home, like the one we're sitting in right now,
05:44can very easily be splitted in separate units.
05:47And you can, in a very, very small footprint, achieve the same that you used to achieve before.
05:52Where does that seem to work now?
06:06Where do you struggle?
06:08What do you struggle?
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