When I was in architecture school, in the early years, when you study the housing program, meaning how to design spaces you can call "home", a professor said something I really liked. A student had come to him for a discussion (critique) on a housing project. After looking at the floor plan of that dwelling, the professor said: "Gheorghescu, you have a living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, etc., but you don't have a house." Meaning a dwelling doesn't just mean a grouping of rooms, there needs to be more than that, spaces need to have a natural flow, interact correctly with each other, be hierarchized according to certain criteria, and create a pleasant environment for you.
About this dwelling, you couldn't even say the professor's line, because not even a dedicated grouping of spaces exists.
I'll quickly pass over the misinformation slipped into the presentation, regarding the usable area. As in almost any advertisement for real estate developments, here too the balcony area is included in the usable area, and anyway the 57 sqm of this apartment doesn't mean 66 sqm, which a 3-room apartment should have according to the Housing Law, without including the balcony area.
The living area in this apartment is completely absent. The entrance to the dwelling is made directly into a hallway with a sofa and a kitchen countertop as furniture. This space should be the place where you spend time when you're not sleeping, here you should create pleasant memories with your family, receive guests, or simply relax reading, listening to music or watching TV.
No matter how much I try to refurnish this space so I can also fit a TV, which doesn't exist in the developer's presentation, I haven't reached a satisfactory solution. It seems the developer and architect, more visionary, wanted an apartment for families who no longer have the habit of spending most of their time in the bosom of the family, in front of this technological wonder, the television. Given the way the sofa is arranged, the only attraction of the family who will live here can only be the way the household cook will struggle to prepare something in the so-called kitchen, full of impractical corners and without a work surface that makes your life easier when you want to cook. The stove is in an acute angle of the kitchen, which seems to want to trap you. I'd be very curious to see how to install a range hood, I still don't know one with a design that allows installation in a space with such a shape.
The refrigerator's placement is also unfortunate, opening it either blocks you in the corner (with the stove) where you have to stir in the pot on the fire, or hits you if you're sitting on the chair next to it.
There's no proper dining place here either, the 4 chairs sit around a countertop that's no more than 50 cm wide, which doesn't give you room for two people to sit facing each other at the table, but these are probably exceptional living conditions, as the developer is careful to mention. You can't fit a wider table either, because those chairs around it are already in the space needed for kitchen maneuvers and circulation to one of the bedrooms. It seems like some kind of Escape Room apartment, except here you have to get out safe and unharmed to be a winner.
The only spaces that look decent are the bathroom and the balcony. The two bedrooms have shapes, angles and corners that will make you curse in those moments when you want to get from bed to the bathroom without turning on the light so as not to disturb the one still sleeping. You can be sure that in the morning you'll take inventory of some beautiful bruises.
I tend to believe this apartment is one for less traditional families, for whom living in pain and suffering inside it ensures a life full of happiness once you leave it.
