Youth to Youth is a private home designed by batlab. Completed in 2014, it is located in Budapest, Hungary. The idea of the two-staired bedroom-loft, which is acting as the accented main element of the flat, was envisioned by a young couple. Sheet metal stairs enveloped in the ribbon form a male side, while the descending ribbon itself counters the former with female delicacy on the other side.
The placement of the bed right above the door (as ordered by the clients) created a zigzagged geometry that became a ribbon waving towards the corners of the room and as doing so, started to shape and divide the space around it. This ribbon like “object” acts simultaneously as floor and ceiling, stairs and bed, shelves and hidden storage. According to the architects: “Our aim was to compose a homogenous continuous ribbon, which was achieved by using painted fibreboards (MDF) on a steel supporting structure.Breaking up the monochromatic whiteness of the living-room, the red-orange loft complemented by the built-in lighting became a vivid nuance in the simple apartment fitting the young style of our clients.”
