Program: Office
Stage: Built
Location: Bratislava
Usable area: 250 m2
Year: 2022
Team: Peter Kuklica, Martin Smerek, Erik Hornáček
Photograph: Matej Hakár
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We insert a plateau and a box of closed offices into the vertical space. We take advantage of the height of the space as well as its technical character. All elements are purely functional and expressively left in their basic state. The plateau area complements the office programme with a rest area.
Program: Flat
Stage: Built
Location: Bratislava
Usable area: 80 m2
Year: 2022
Team: Peter Kuklica, Martin Smerek, Erik Hornáček
Photograph: Matej Hakár
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The apartment on Grosslingova Street serves most of the time for the owner himself in case he needs to be in Slovakia for work. However, it also offers the possibility of accommodation for the whole family on weekends or holidays in Bratislava. The solution is based on creating a spacious multifunctional room oriented to the street views and moving the bedroom as a utilitarian space to a quiet courtyard. With this change, we have created a generous living space that is available to the residents of the apartment throughout the day. At the same time, the semi-circular curtain creates a "room within a room" used for children's sleepovers.
Main visual element of the apartment is a large wardrobe above which there are skylights letting light into the hallway and bathroom.
The materiality is chosen in its rawest state, only from the basic materials and their surface finish.
Program: Flat
Stage: Built
Location: Bratislava
Usable area: 140m2
Year: 2022
Team: Peter Kuklica, Martin Smerek, Erik Hornáček
Photograph: Matej Hakár
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The apartment for a young couple with a generous size on Grosslingova Street was characterized by its enclosure and strong layout division into smaller spaces. We decided to remove all the non-load-bearing partitions that defined the apartment and thus create a flowing space, leaving only one wall to the bedroom with the original door as a fragment of the original layout.
The new division of the layout, or the demarcation and separation of spaces such as the pantry or the study and wardrobe, are designed in a non-structural way. We insert removable elements such as a glass wall, a kitchen unit or a curtain. It is the concept of not creating new building elements in the interior that we see as extremely necessary with the current tendency of people's turnover and the need for change over time. In this way, without creating new construction waste, the apartment can be rebuilt at any time and the individual elements can be replaced. Complementing this variability is the sliding bookcase on wheels, which can also serve as a separation between the dining room and the living room if necessary. The whole concept of a single space is emphasised by the solid oak flooring running through the entire apartment and the enveloping walls and ceilings running up to the bathroom, where everything is plastered.
The layout allows the generous size to stand out and conveys maximum connection with all the views from the apartment, where in different places the owners can take away several atmospheres according to their mood.
The apartment is custom designed for the clients while leaving a lot of freedom for modifications in the future to fulfill its current purpose with the possibility of finishing. In this way, we want to present our view on the interiors of apartments, which are always only a temporary solution.
Program: Office
Stage: Built
Location: Bratislava
Area: 240 m2
Year: 2020
Team: Peter Kuklica, Martin Smerek, Katarína Siváková, Juraj Hubinský
Photo: Matej Hakár
Temporality of the office space versus the value of the original space. Letting the original space stand out. We use only technical materials, transparent, invisible, reflective. Greenery and wood are a means to semi-humanize the space and create a pleasant working environment.
Program: Flat
Stage: Realisation
Location: Bratislava
Area: 180m2
Year: 2019
Team: Peter Kuklica, Martin Smerek, Juraj Hubinský
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Attic apartment in Mlynské Nivy. We added an inserted floor of rooms. The space is illuminated by opening the layout diagonally and by adding interior skylights.
Program: Flat
Stage: Bratislava Area: 150m2
Status: Built
Year: 2018
Team: Peter Kuklica, Juraj Hubinský , Martin Smerek, Ján Kohút, Brigita Teplanová
Photograph: Matej Hakár
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The basis of the design is to create a connected communal space of an apartment that works for both a family and a single occupant. This space is clearly defined by the kitchen area with a bar counter as the central element.
The spaces themselves, the positioning of the openings and the proportions respect and complement the original symmetrical scheme of the apartment as much as possible.
The materials respect the period character and let it stand out in its essence.
Navrhovaný stav
Axo
Program: Restaurant
Stage: Built
Location: Trenčín
Area: 80m2
Year: 2018 Team: Peter Kuklica, Juraj Hubinský , Martin Smerek, Ján Kohút,Brigita Teplanová
Photograph: Lousy Auber
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Oyshi restaurant was created after the owners returned from the land of the rising sun, when they decided to bring a piece of Japan to Trenčín.
The concept was to eliminate as much as possible the means of expression. Simplicity and contrast. The interior of the restaurant adopts this principle. The spaces located in the layout around the sales area, i.e. the entrance, kitchen and toilets, are in a dark colour. The restaurant itself is in a pale shade. The interior of the sales area contrasts with the other, secondary spaces, creating a background - a canvas for a varied dining experience.
Program: Office
Stage: Built
Location: Bratislava
Area: 440 m2
Year: 2018
Team: Peter Kuklica, Martin Smerek, Juraj Hubinský
Photograph: Lousy Auber
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The concept of the design consists in the illumination of the deep layout, the creation of mutlifunctional micro-spaces and the upgrading of the corridors to a level suitable for social activity. The strength of the layout is the corridor spaces, which, in addition to the communication feature, also contain the possibility of informal meeting and sitting. Intimacy and undisturbed work in the open space is provided by a solitary wooden storage box with a bookcase. In addition to its practical function, the storage box serves as a layout and visual screen. A surprising feature of the box is the integrated upholstered niche for seating.
At the rear of the office space, a corridor opens into a kind of piazza. There is a solitary pear-shaped desk in the center and a second wooden box positioned in the space. This box integrates wine coolers and a bar counter. The position of the box is not accidental and acts as a screen in front of the entrance door of the sanitary area.
The design and material composition is timeless and is based on the relationship between the monochromatic contrasts of white and beige of the surrounding space (walls, ceiling and floor) and the embedded joinery components in the natural colour of the wood, white and black solitary tables.
FLOORPLAN
AXO
Program: Flat
Stage: Built
Location: Bratislava
Area: 65m2
Year: 2018
Team: Peter Kuklica, Juraj Hubinský
Photo: Lousy Auber
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Loft apartment in the Mlynica. We moved the dining area to the upper floor and created a continuous lounge area, connected by stairs. The adopted material composition and freely inserted new elements preserve the original character of the space.
Program: Flat
Stage: Built
Location: Bratislava
Area: 80m2
Year: 2018
Team: Peter Kuklica, Martin Smerek
Photo: Lousy Auber
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Belehradská-apartment for a baker. The play of materials, lighting and moments of surprise give the apartment the right ingredients.
Program: Showroom
Stage: Built - competition 1.st place
Location: Bratislava
Area: 224 m2
Year: 2017
Team: Peter Kuklica, Martin Smerek, Juraj Hubinský
Photagraph: Studio flusser
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The creation of the interior of the Schüco showroom started with a two-round competition, which we won with a dynamic design for the arrangement and shaping of the embedded masses - interconnected fragments of the house, arranged in a strictly delimited space on the ground floor of a multifunctional building in Bratislava.
The concept of the contrast between the rough surroundings and the clean inner "envelope" is parallel to the concept of the contrast between the perception of the exterior and the interior, or in simpler terms: the house and the garden. We further developed this banal contrast - the initial cubic closed masses were further shaped, opened and dynamized. The concept is reinforced by the colour and material contrast of the internal white 'shell' of the house fragment embedded in the rough and dark surroundings made up of rough plaster on the walls and ceramic tiles on the floor, which are more characteristic of exterior use.
We also integrated and presented the essential element of the showroom - the functional Schüco window models themselves in different sizes and designs - into the walls of the white building. Visitors to the showroom can test the windows, walk through them and perceive them installed in a real environment. However, the windows are not just display pieces - on the contrary, they have become a functional and aesthetic part of the boundary between the intimate client sitting area, the small island kitchen and the lecture "courtyard".
Program: Flat
Stage: Built
Location: Bratislava
Area: 95m2 + terrace
Year: 2017
Team: Peter Kuklica, Martin Smerek
Photo: Lousy Auber
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Design of the layout and interior of the apartment on Trenčianska street. With a relatively deep layout, we decided to orient the living area as much as possible towards the windows, we placed the wardrobe with the entrance in the darkest parts of the apartment as one continuous wooden wall.
The living room with the kitchen and dining room was moved to the central part of the layout, thus unifying the apartment space without unnecessary visible corridors.
The columns that run through the entire space are incorporated within the woodwork or walls and, unlike the original layout, do not interfere with the operation or aesthetics of the space.
