This apartment is a 30 square metre space.

The layout exists primarily as it was.

The client was very inspired by minimalist interior design and really wanted a very clean and crisp and contemporary product for the design of his space.

Our idea was to shift the bulk of the apartment to the perimeter walls or to the outside walls to create a really large open and fluid space through the middle of the apartment.

Running along one length of wall beyond the kitchen is a function wall and it contains a four seat sofa and a fold down bed.

The function wall wraps almost the couch and the bed to make full use of the height and ensure that no space was left unused for storage where possible.

For the design of the function wall we wanted something very robust which is why we decided to clad it entirely in metal.

It's a very contemporary look and feel.

It feels very sharp, very bespoke and very unique.

We've used a very strong white benchtop because it's located at the base of the singular window to the studio.

What that does is help to flood the space with light and the benchtop and splashback reads a little bit like a giant lantern.

It has a glow.

We've employed a number of compact appliances and everything in the kitchen is concealed.

There's a washer dryer combination, there's a pull out dishwasher, there's a microwave but also a very generous sized fridge.

We decided to use frosted glass for the bathroom door as a mechanism or tool to be able to borrow light from the window in the bathroom and bring more light into the studio.

All of the surfaces in the bathroom are finished in the same tile.

It creates a very unique geometric pattern and helps to make the bathroom feel much larger than it in fact is.

The apartment overall presents as a very simple solution but it's in fact there's a great deal of consideration goes into getting all of the details right.

The way that the blind rolls down just behind the tap or the concealed strip lighting in the shower right down to the small details like the push touch doors in the kitchen or the concealed finger pull handles.

It's very important to be able to make use of existing building stock and improve upon that so that people are very comfortable living in our cities.