THE GREEN MACHINE
The design was born out of the client’s need to rethink how to live in a compact studio flat in East-London by providing adaptable spaces to suit many different uses such as sleeping, eating, working, entertaining, lounging, etc. The design strategy focused the tight budget on a grouping of joinery elements resulting in a bold intervention in one zone of the flat, leaving the new-build kitchen and bathroom untouched. The joinery was built using green Valchromat, a colour-impregnated timber board, specified for its manipulability, strength, durability, and playfulness. Ample storage was carefully integrated amongst the joinery to create a joyful, clutter-free space, while the bold use of colour rooted and defined the 9sqm zone of intervention to create multiple “rooms within a room”.
