Three 10-foot-wide Custom Lamps Help Transform a 1930s Office Into an Apartment
For inspiration, architects FAR frohn&rojas drew on the Pantheon, geodesic domes, and an expressionist theater in Berlin.
For inspiration, architects FAR frohn&rojas drew on the Pantheon, geodesic domes, and an expressionist theater in Berlin.
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Project Details:
Location: Berlin, Germany
Architect: FAR frohn&rojas / @far_frohnrojas
Footprint: 2,271 square feet
Structural Engineer: MFT Metall-Form-Technik GmbH
Cabinetry Design: Kim Wang
Photographer: Tobias Wootton / @tobias_wootton
From the Architect: "Transforming part of a former office building from the early 1930s into an apartment, we were confronted with the challenge to maintain the spaciousness that its open plan had to offer and refrain from subdividing it into a series of isolated rooms.
"The first architectural element we introduced was a shelf featuring five bays and two levels. Each bay houses an individual environment: an entry zone, a cooking area, a work-space, a bathroom, a reading nook, and a sleeping loft.
"We also introduced three domed lamps of 10 foot diameter each hanging right above head-height and zoning the remaining open space. Each of them references an architectural precedent: the Pantheon, the 'Großes Schauspielhaus' (translated to Great Theater), and the geodesic dome."
Photo by Tobias Wootton
Photo by Tobias Wootton
Photo by Tobias Wootton
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