Project #11
Project #11 from Studio Wills +...
Project #11

PROJECT #11 is an interior renovation to a 4-bedroom apartment for its new home owners: a couple whom entertains frequently. To make way for a larger space to entertain and lounge around, 4 bedrooms were reduced to 2 via demolition of internal walls. This led to the discovery that the apartment is supported by structural shear walls. The concept of using Walls as Spatial Organizers and Dividers in this open-plan apartment was then conceived.
A structural shear wall, rendered black, became the visual focus of the apartment. A series of grey plaster and white painted walls radiate from it to define the Foyer, Living, Lounge and Dining. They serve as blank canvases for the owner’s collection of furniture and home furnishing. 2 horizontal ‘planes’, a white oak timber floor and a white-painted ceiling, connect all the spaces in this apartment together.
The result is a continuum of free-flowing spaces in a muted palette, accented in places by walls in a variety of colours and textures.

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These walls reveal and conceal the spaces it defines and changes one’s perception of them as one moves around the apartment.
Arriving at the Foyer lined with timber-paneled walls, a glimpse of the Living bathed in abundant daylight is revealed. Beyond a grey fin wall is the Lounge. Photography by Studio Periphery.
Pass the Foyer, one steps into the Living. The Lounge, lined by the Black Wall and anchored by a grey fin wall, opens up. Photography by Studio Periphery.
Leaving behind the Lounge, one re-enters the Living lined with white walls. Beyond the Black Wall is the Dining. Photography by Studio Periphery.
Stepping into the Dining, a white wall connects the Dining and Master bedroom visually. An adjacent grey wall, is a backdrop for a painting of complementing texture. Photography by Studio Periphery.
In the Dining, a display case built into an existing bay-window houses an extensive collection of wine glasses. Photography by Studio Periphery.
Advancing further into the Dining, one catches a glimpse of the kitchen behind a grey wall. Photography by Studio Periphery.
A white wall runs from the Dining and culminates at the Master Bedroom: an all-white space with filtered daylight. Photography by Studio Periphery.
The Bath, finished in a muted palette of materials, continues the understated and pared down interior quality of the apartment. Photography by Studio Periphery.
Leaving behind the Master Bedroom, one re-enters the Dining . The Black Wall, a backdrop for an antique upright piano and Chinese Calligraphy, conceals while revealing the Lounge beyond. Photography by Studio Periphery.
The journey through the apartment folds back unto the Foyer. The spatial composition of the apartment, defined by a continuous plane of white oak timber floor and white-painted ceiling anchored in places by walls of various colour and textures, reveals in its entirety. Photography by Studio Periphery.
Layout of apartment before renovation.
Layout of apartment after renovation.
A ‘Matrix of Walls’ as Spatial Organizers and Dividers in this open-plan apartment.
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Project #11

PROJECT #11 is an interior renovation to a 4-bedroom apartment for its new home owners: a couple whom entertains frequently. To make way for a larger space to entertain and lounge around, 4 bedrooms were reduced to 2 via demolition of internal walls. This led to the discovery that the apartment is supported by structural shear walls. The concept of using Walls as Spatial Organizers and Dividers in this open-plan apartment was then conceived.
A structural shear wall, rendered black, became the visual focus of the apartment. A series of grey plaster and white painted walls radiate from it to define the Foyer, Living, Lounge and Dining. They serve as blank canvases for the owner’s collection of furniture and home furnishing. 2 horizontal ‘planes’, a white oak timber floor and a white-painted ceiling, connect all the spaces in this apartment together.
The result is a continuum of free-flowing spaces in a muted palette, accented in places by walls in a variety of colours and textures.

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