Chicago Architecture Biennial participants Point Supreme's Nadja Apartment is a study in color and geometry: specifically, how vivid, geometric forms can unite and disassemble a space, giving the visitor clues on how to navigate and inhabit their environment.
It's a technique that has been employed before, notably in the Seattle Central Library, where an entire floor is swathed in red and the escalators are an eye-popping vivid neon green. In the Nadja apartments, the deployment of color and geometry creates its own energy and language within the domestic sphere:
The stairs serve as focal point for the house, helping to anchor the spaces that make up the upper and lower floors of the apartment.
In this same geometric color vein, the firm has also unveiled photos of its newest project called Serpantina, which is a linear shading element for an outdoor public space:
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