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Richmond Apartment in Melbourne
Tiny Living Development in Victoria, Australia ? design by tsai design
30 Sep 2018
New Apartment in Richmond
Architects: tsai design
Location: Richmond – inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Richmond Apartment
The brief was to create a 1 bedroom apartment that can also operate as a home office space, with the feeling of luxury, comfort and detailing you would expect find in a normal house.

The design concept constraints of the existing apartment are the lack of outdoor space, lack of access to daylight, low ceiling height, and limiting kitchen.

The starting point of the design is to overcome these constraints.
The solution is a timber joinery/puzzle box that is inserted into the apartment, stretching the entire length of the apartment, the timber box connects all the spaces together, changing the perspective of the internal room from separate spaces to one continuous space that flows seamlessly into one another.

What solutions were implemented to maximise the sense of space"

1) Existing walls are mostly kept in place, as well as the location of plumbing to manage cost of the project.

2) Lighting – Maximise natural light to each of the space is one of the key consideration in the design. In the original apartment, the only north facing window is in the bathroom, thus is heavily underutilised. To maximise the be...