Dan Purice and Bianca Purice - Azap - architects and co-founders of the company SC 313 DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE PARTNERS SRL, founded in 2019 in Timisoara, Romania. Our office offers complete architecture and interior design services, covering all stages of a project: consulting, concept, design, project management and site monitoring. Through our projects we combine the passion for design with the aesthetic and functional requirements and needs of our clients.
Project description in English
The main objective of this project was to improve the quality of the interior space through a minimalist design, of an apartment located in a residential complex completed in 2023, due to the fact that its floor plan made it difficult to furnish and create storage space in various areas.
The interior design concept starts from the challenge of positioning the kitchen, living room and dining room in the main space, taking into account the irregular angles of the walls as well as the request of the beneficiary to have a visual separation between the living room and the kitchen. At the same time, it is based on the visual unification of all the rooms through a common language, and on creating a pleasant experience in crossing the apartment through a route guided by angles, reflection and materiality.
Therefore, the key elements of the project were the pacing and dynamism of the vertical and horizontal surfaces in order to reduce the effect of the length of the circulations, as well as the dematerialization of the corners of the space so that through reflection we increase the perception of the space and bring light into the darker areas of the apartment .
One of the important requirements of our clients was to have a visually spacious apartment, but at the same time to include many storage spaces. From this requirement was born the idea of merging the furniture with the walls and to obtain a visual continuity in the whole apartment, thus the furniture becomes walls, and the walls become furniture. This gesture created a visual enlargement effect of the rooms after the completion of the works, fulfilling the clients wish to have enough storage space in a fresh new apartment, which now offers an impression of even more spaciousness than the empty apartment.
