NEVER TOO SMALL ep.18 26.5m2 Micro Apartment Design

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my name is Alec Nielsen and I'm an architect and my name is Liz Walsh and
I'm also an architect
The Bae is located in Sandy Bay in Hobart Tasmania
The original apartment block was built in 1972 there are 12 units in this apartment
The Bae is 26.5 square meters in total the original services kitchen and
bathroom were marginally bigger than what we have now so one of the main
strategies was to really consolidate and couple the services to the back walls
this provides more flexible floor plate for however you'd like to use the
space exactly for us the main driving design idea for the apartment was
looking at how we can actually increase the sense of space through the addition
of the two skylights and by adding the two skylights we've been able to make
the tiny footprint actually feel quite spacious and generous also another
advantage of the scarlet is that were able to capture north light and by
pulling out the carpet we exposed the slab which acts as thermal mass for
keeping the apartment warm during winter we've retained a strip of the original
70s tiles at the front we wanted to have traces of the history and of that 70s
fabric that was really important
in small spaces leaving one of the the
things that seems to come up a lot particularly in bed set type apartments
is that the bed is always visible in the living space so we wanted the
flexibility to be able to fold the bed up you know open the kitchen and
actually use it as a living and we've also pushed the kitchen back so it
actually feels like it's in a nook it's actually not flush with the rest of the
space so it's you know about delineating zones it was really important that we
provided a good sized pantry it was also really important that the storage was
deep enough and wide enough to accommodate a full height fridge and oven
that we could roast the chicken in
I think it was also really important to include the glass splashback so
they extended the view while you're in the kitchen
one of the advantages of introducing the skylights and creating the pitched
volume internally was creating overhead storage it was really important that the
bathroom and the main living spaces have quite different aesthetics and one of the
primary design drivers for the door with that it felt heavy and private and
acoustically separate from this space you could close that heavy door it's
almost acoustically sealed it feels like a cloister in there yeah so there was an
introduction of a skylight within the bathroom so that washed the wall behind
the shower and we liked the idea of bringing a little bit of 70s glamour
into the space so picking up on the color of the existing tiles pulling that
into the bathroom we're really looking at how we can be economical and
functional in our material choices but the things that you touch and that a
tactile actually have patina and have a bit more glamour we really wanted those
things to kind of yeah to pop and be an experience in themselves
retrofitting existing apartments is hugely important for future living as resources
become more and more finite it's so critical that we start to reuse
adapt reimagine what our existing building stock is with better amenity
and I think a better sense of community yeah I don't think apartment living
needs to be compromised I actually think it can be a joy to live in

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