Furniture and living room apartment from UNStudio

The Dutch study UNStudio has transformed a loft of 550 m2 located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in the heart of Manhattan , a hybrid use space as an apartment – gallery -library thanks to undulating walls command a very generous and complex space. The small apartments have always been considered as difficult for architects and interior designers. But the wide open spaces also pose their own challenges in creating a functional and comfortable housing at a time. It is for this stunning loft , whose owner needed to convert to a dual -use space , apartment and gallery exhibition of art and books.
The architects from acclaimed UNStudio raised in this case had several challenges: to redistribute the loft so that applications and gallery housing comfortably cohabit , to make this division without losing a sense of open -space, Create walls for vertical display , and correct an imbalance inherent to the apartment, too low for the generous dimensions of width and length had the floor.
The chosen solution was to organize the large apartment and get a more balanced thanks to a series of curved walls and sinuous longitudimnalmente advancing the rectangular. These walls , serving also as vertical exhibition gallery to hang the paintings on display and integrate shelves for displaying books. The appeal of the curved walls also possible to create privileged perspective from any point in the house , which never loses its essence of loft.