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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Apartment G51 in Kaunas, Lithuania by HITO_LTNovember 21st, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: HITO_LT In a departure from the conventional practice, a 5-person family was moving from a suburban house to an old town apartment. The authors of the project were fascinated by the fresh approach of the clients who believe that home is inhabited by people, stories and experiences, and not by things. Thus, their key objective was to live in a ‘minimalist’ fashion – in terms of style as well as in terms of the amount of material things.  Image Courtesy © Leonas Garbačauskas
 Image Courtesy © Leonas Garbačauskas The wishes of the clients were also very few: The key task for the authors of the project was to design a fully functional plan and to preserve as well as to emphasise the existing advantages of the space where people are playing the central role.  Image Courtesy © Leonas Garbačauskas  Image Courtesy © Leonas Garbačauskas The structure of the plan is dominated by symmetry and neatness. The spaces surround the stairwell as if turning life in a circle. The 150-square-metre apartment has three children’s rooms, one bedroom, one combined kitchen and living room, 2 bathrooms, and a closet. The central idea of the modern interior was to preserve purity and to leave as many of the existing engineering solutions as possible replacing and/or covering only the essential planes. The apartment is dominated by subtle monochromatic colours and as much natural materials as possible, such as metal, wool, wood, and concrete. There is a lot of black colour in the interior which creates an impression of depth, acts as a leveller, and absorbs certain details. It ‘cuts’ the grey space into different zones and forms spatial structure.  Image Courtesy © Leonas Garbačauskas  Image Courtesy © Leonas Garbačauskas The entire apartment has a unique lighting system adjusted to the room height. It creates a network and gives the space integrity. As a contrast to rough concrete the visualisation of the marble motif was chosen for the bathroom. Sterile and clean large tiles create a clear division and ‘inform’ the onlooker about their function. The living area features two pieces of art that are very different from each other in terms of style and stroke of the brush. One of them is a female portrait Her by Gia Ram, which in the architects’ opinion converses with the rough and fluent concrete structures of the walls. The other – Chromatic Aberrations by Tadao Cern – is very geometric and clear and communicates with the rigorous shapes and elements of the apartment space. This emphasises the two sides of the interior – the free, rough and expressive, and the structural, subtle, geometric, minimal and hypnotising.  Image Courtesy © Leonas Garbačauskas  Image Courtesy © Leonas Garbačauskas  Image Courtesy © HITO_LT
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