The concept began as a box within a box: the green box at the center of a long, rectilinear Berlin apartment. Lacquered a deep forest green, the clever and custom design intervention has completely transformed a standard apartment into a unique home. Rather than organizing storage and enclosed rooms on the perimeter of the existing space, Berlin-based Ester Bruzkus Architekten activated the very center of the apartment. But each face of the studio’s green box intervention tells a different story.

The apartment is glazed on two sides and defined by two existing walls opposite, so the design of the home sought to take advantage of every inch of window space rather than tucking them into enclosed rooms and shutting light behind closed doors. By placing the defining walls at the center of the apartment—“a really simple idea but it does so much,” said Ester Bruzkus—circulation flows in and around the walls, whether carving out intimate spaces for gathering or building out more space for storage.

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