Multifunctional Areas: Integrating Residence Environments With Counter tops

Flexibility and open areas are themes in up to date home design. Multifunctional areas and inventive storage options are greater than welcome when in search of simply adaptable environments to satisfy house owners’ always altering wants. To present you some recent inspiration, we’ve got chosen ten tasks that characteristic counter tops that combine completely different applications and serve multiple perform within the house.

Integration With Structure

Casa 4×30, realized in partnership with CR2 Arquitetura + FGMF, presents an uncommon continuity between the lounge and the eating desk, built-in into the island with a built-in oven. Lowered, the kitchen gives itself to the customer via an sudden perspective. Built-in with the lounge by the “floor-table”, by the countertop that extends from one surroundings to a different, by the supplies and particulars, the kitchen locations itself as a part of the identical house, however the decreasing of the extent highlights the distinction between the applications.

In a unique answer that additionally offers full integration, Sabiá Arquitetos + Pianca Arquitetura concentrated your entire kitchen program on a single 4-meter-long countertop in Apartamento Praça da República.

Transition Between Environments

In Apartamento Arouche, the middle of the home is a big countertop the place one works, research, cooks and eats. The guará arquitetura + Vão places of work designed it with a size of 6 meters, forming a big concrete desk answerable for organizing the room. These qualities are additionally current within the desk with retractable flaps on a timber panel, which articulates between the kitchen and the lounge accommodating as much as 8 individuals in Apartamento Algés. The piece was designed by dbA. arquitectura to determine itself as a protagonist in open house.

By working at completely different heights on the identical furnishings, we will configure the transition between environments and makes use of, as we will see within the 82SAN Restoration and Extension of a Home Between Dividing Partitions. In a easy however useful answer, COM/O opened the counter and left its two sides empty. This facilitated entry to storage areas and amplified visible integration in Vila Venus Sol.

Versatility within the Identical Furnishings

In Apartamento Curva, the countertop between the kitchen and the lounge has an arm that advances towards the lounge window. It runs your entire size of the house till it reaches the kitchen. Upon coming into this house, it types a curve, typically concave, typically convex. The design by Isabela Bandeira and Gabriela Lauria softens the circulation between the environments, in addition to integrates and ties the 2 areas collectively. The blue joinery additionally creates a multifunctional piece of furnishings that has a TV, a distinct segment for chairs, and dish cupboards dealing with the kitchen.

It is usually potential to innovate in American kitchens. Estúdio Minke adopted extra monochromatic coatings to dialogue with the uncovered concrete construction and combine the house of the cooktop, meal, and an island that may serve completely different makes use of in Apartamento Monolito. The COTA 760 additionally organized a big central island in Apartamento Sumaúma the place the assist countertop for the kitchen and eating desk is positioned at a barely decrease stage.

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