The melamine panels are perfect for interior architecture, and allow to create niches, sliding doors, sliding walls, to accommodate and, when necessary, hide, the different functions in a house.
1) The sliding bookcase wall (Husos apartment)
In this apartment in Madrid, designed by Husos studio, a niche has been created for relax, in a bookcase wall. The niche houses a sleeping mat, and can also be closed, making it a projection screen. On the occasion, the niche can also serve as a guest room.
The light, Scandinavian-inspired melamine panels also create a wall with many shelves, with day or door compartments, to store objects and thus keep them all in perfect order.
2) The long wall with different depths (Maldini-Studios apartment)
Two-colour melamine panels design the full and empty spaces of the architecture, and at the same time host the daily activities, in this Stockholm apartment, designed by Lookofsky Architecture. A skillful use of melamine panels made it possible to create a 7-metre long wall, with niches organising the space in different sections.
The niches house the multiple uses: the top with the washing area for the kitchen, a living room with a corner for relax, and at the same time the niches design the architecture of the walls. Contrasting white doors close the storage units for everyday objects.
3) The room in the room (Toledano Tel Aviv apartment)
Flexibility was the key word for the interior architecture of this apartment in Tel Aviv, by Toledano+Architects. Here, large melamine panels mark out the functional and storage areas. A large light oak “cube” creates a “room in the room”, which houses the children’s bathroom, a closet and a wardrobe for linen; in addition, one of the sides hosts a niche with a sofa for occasional relax, or to socialize from time to time.
The whole apartment features large full-height walls in melamine panels, lacquered in white or veneered in light oak, which surround the spaces and provide storage for books and daily objects.