Refurbishment of the maisonette, which is part of a fifteen-year-old development in Dúbravka Bratislava, was a challenge ? growing bigger, since the investor, representing a five-member family, demanded the reconstruction to be radical. Attention and greatest care was therefore devoted to shared spaces, their maximum improvement and even enlargement.

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Architects: Lang Benedek Associated Architects

Location: Dúbravka, Slovakia

Architects In Charge: Michal Lang, Borislav Benedek

Artistic Cooperation: Patrícia Koy?ová

Area: 174.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: studio flusser

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Text description provided by the architects. Refurbishment of the maisonette, which is part of a fifteen-year-old development in Dúbravka Bratislava, was a challenge ? growing bigger, since the investor, representing a five-member family, demanded the reconstruction to be radical. Attention and greatest care was therefore devoted to shared spaces, their maximum improvement and even enlargement.
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To the common part, a large terrace with an area of almost two thirds of the apartment and originally accessible only from two rooms on the upper level, was newly included by the addition of a gallery. This platform serves as a library and relaxing reading space, as well as a spot of parental control over the space below at the same time. The shap...