Apartment 911 by Jun Murata

Description of the project by Jun Murata

This is the renovation of the apartment which is located in the city center. This residence has a living room to the south side with splendid city view.

The client who works in a foreign country required a comfortable healing space used as a private suit room to spend his spare time. I felt it was important to dispel the so-called "negative elements of the typical apartment" - for example, ledges of columns and beams to inside space and private rooms participated small. It was necessary to restore them to smooth a space which has purity.

All partition walls and built-in furniture were removed except for equipment laying of the pipes and structure frame. To cancel gaps by beams, columns and duct space, it’ s a basic way to finish wall and ceiling flat. A small reading area, illumination boxes, digging crowded display space and storage are buried in any dead space.

The sound insulation performance of the floor completion requested by a regulation in an apartment is settled on double floors. Sound insulation floor covering material of a fluffy feel was avoided, and we chose natural wood of ash which has mat texture, hard impression, and fine-grained quality, and also has high precision for the splice.

A kitchen with amphidromous circulation and the powder room arranged more widely than before - both equipments are custom-made one without the unnecessary function. Only a central beam in the living - dining expands its width and is making voluminousness stand out. It was cut off from the ceiling by a slit of an indirect lighting so as not to be recognized as a structural beam. A thin film of the half mirror surface is stuck not give an excessive oppressive feeling. The reflection like the water surface is exists with a kind of uniqueness.

A L-shape hole used as display space is thrust through on the east side wall, and a rectangle is sunk on the west one. Along the vertical window which continues at same width with a counter in the front of it, natural light from the south is led to window-less corridor softly. Those of all exists as a spatial empty, and it directs inside space as the element of light.

I wished to suppress my intention and to make previous old residence be restored into modest space filled with soft light. I hope the client is able to have a rest gently in the brief moment.