slab house — bureau de change
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An interior precedent by Bureau de Change Architects demonstrating how an exposed concrete ceiling slab paired with a generous skylight transforms a rear living space into a light-filled room.
- What we like about this project
- The deep blue painted built-in joinery creates a dramatic color contrast against the neutral white and raw concrete palette.
Materials
- exposed-concrete
- glass
- painted-wood
- polished-concrete
Visual identifiers
- exposed-concrete-ceiling
- large-skylight
- blue-joinery
- polished-concrete-floor
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- brutalist-accent
Visual tags
- residential
- daylight
- exposed-structure
- contemporary
- open-plan
- Geometry
- Rectangular open volume defined by an exposed concrete ceiling slab, a continuous glass rear wall, and a bold blue paneled volume on the left.
- Structural guess
- Exposed concrete slab supported by structural walls and steel or concrete beams.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story domestic extension scale with comfortable ceiling height and generous floor area.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused daylight pouring through a large overhead skylight and a full-height rear glass opening.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, luminous, and calm with a striking contrast between raw concrete and saturated blue joinery.
- Environmental context
- Interior domestic space opening directly onto a rear garden and neighboring fences.
- Spatial experience
- A bright living space where overhead natural light washes down white walls and polished concrete floors, connecting visually to the garden outside.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong linear progression defined by the concrete beam lines and the continuous overhead skylight edge.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential interior with brutalist structural accents
- Program
- Residential living or study space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- exposed-concrete, glass, painted-wood, polished-concrete
- Visual identifiers
- exposed-concrete-ceiling, large-skylight, blue-joinery, polished-concrete-floor
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, brutalist-accent
- Visual tags
- residential, daylight, exposed-structure, contemporary, open-plan
- Geometry
- Rectangular open volume defined by an exposed concrete ceiling slab, a continuous glass rear wall, and a bold blue paneled volume on the left.
- Structural guess
- Exposed concrete slab supported by structural walls and steel or concrete beams.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story domestic extension scale with comfortable ceiling height and generous floor area.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused daylight pouring through a large overhead skylight and a full-height rear glass opening.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, luminous, and calm with a striking contrast between raw concrete and saturated blue joinery.
- Environmental context
- Interior domestic space opening directly onto a rear garden and neighboring fences.
- Spatial experience
- A bright living space where overhead natural light washes down white walls and polished concrete floors, connecting visually to the garden outside.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong linear progression defined by the concrete beam lines and the continuous overhead skylight edge.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential interior with brutalist structural accents
- Program
- Residential living or study space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior