T Studio | BRONZE, International Design Awards 2020, Interior Design, Renovation Category

This diminutive studio is consistent with the simplicity that defines louta et al.’s designs and it is in this objective reality that the idea emerged: where its smallness is not baulked at but, on the contrary, is heightened then juxtaposed with an uncompromising visual sparseness.

Although 'empty' is perhaps the most convenient descriptive term that can be employed upon encountering this studio—as is the case when all programmatic functions from day-to-day food preparation to eating to sleeping are all hidden in their dedicated encasements when not in use—the unhampered line of vision becomes poetic in its affordance of tranquillity taken in at one go. Strategically cantilever-mounted on both of the long-side walls of the studio, these boxes’ position is also meant to equilibrate the unit’s pronounced length versus its width.

Certainly such a space—especially given its diminutive size of 25 sqm—can be argued to be a premium in this day and age where the evermore pervasive digital technologies threaten to overcome one’s peace?