Periphery Apartment
| Client | Confidential |
| Program | Interior Refurbishment (Residential) |
| Area | 164 m² |
| Status | Completed |
| Team Members | Kevin Lim |
| Ashwin Bafna | |
| Svasti Agrawal | |
| Photography | Khoo Guojie |
| Year of Completion | 2020 |
The periphery edges are rounded to reflect the undulating plan.
The apartment resides in a building with an undulating glass façade and plan. The refurbishment seeks inspiration from building’s architecture and carries the curved aesthetics back into the interiors.
Periphery Apartment is home to a couple who love collecting artifacts and have dedicated two rooms for their separate collections. The living and dining rooms were envisaged as one contiguous space and flanked by a timber veneer wall with rounded corners to enable a spatial flow from the entrance to the living and dining areas. The kitchen entrance with a porthole has been designed as a continuity of this datum to visually link both the kitchen and dining. The ceiling pelmets were also softened with curves to complement the surroundings.
The private part of the apartment consist of two main areas; the master bedroom suite and the collection rooms.
An adjoining bedroom was converted into an en-suite walk in wardrobe with a vanity counter. The master bedroom was fitted with an infill platform bed that hugs the curve of the building. The platform bed was designed like a box with multifarious storage options; a ‘suitcase’ storage that opens from the top and aligns the bed away from the afternoon sun, slots for reading material and hidden storage for keeping the clutter of wires away from view. Custom metal work outline the vanity counters in both the walk-in and bathroom. Flora was brought into the bathroom to form a green privacy screen and add a tropical touch to the shower area .
The ardent collectors have requested for two separate collection rooms with individual work spaces. The husband’s man-cave has floor to ceiling display shelves to showcase his army of metal figurines and police paraphernalia. The man-cave room was clad in navy blue to reflect his association with the ‘boys in blue’. The wife has also amassed a sizable collection of her own in Lego. The various Lego collections are framed by playful boxes in pastel shades to complement the colourful Lego builds.
We envisaged an apartment interior that was soft on the peripheral edges and moulded to fit the contours of the building’s architecture.
