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The Rental
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Sydney, Australia
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The Rental
Sydney, Australia
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Type
YEAR
2014
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
The Rental is a 20sqm studio apartment in Sydney’s Kings Cross precinct offered as a model to highlight an alternative to home ownership. Small, inner city dwellings would seem ideal for young, first home buyers but in a competitive property market, aspirational buyer can quickly become luckless renter. In an attempt to combat this trend, the project is fashioned on a ‘win-win’ proposition whereby a landlord commissions a creative ‘soon- to-be’ tenant to plan and undertake the renovation.
The Rental’s interior design melds modest, unassuming materials of distinct architectural quality with the original, decorative fabric of the art deco walk-up block. A series of simple, low-tech joinery pieces form zones within the tiny space. The budget, less than 40k, dictated that a solitary carpenter cut and assemble material on site, within the confines of the apartment, to create a kitchen, bedroom nook and storage blocks.
To conceal the bedroom nook from the rest of the apartment, a joinery unit with sliding desk was conceived. A steel plate shelf, fitted wall-to-wall, conceals the sliding door track and supports the weight of a storage block to allow the desk to slide seamlessly between.
The Rental’s interior design melds modest, unassuming materials of distinct architectural quality with the original, decorative fabric of the art deco walk-up block. A series of simple, low-tech joinery pieces form zones within the tiny space. The budget, less than 40k, dictated that a solitary carpenter cut and assemble material on site, within the confines of the apartment, to create a kitchen, bedroom nook and storage blocks.
To conceal the bedroom nook from the rest of the apartment, a joinery unit with sliding desk was conceived. A steel plate shelf, fitted wall-to-wall, conceals the sliding door track and supports the weight of a storage block to allow the desk to slide seamlessly between.
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