Teenage rooms: the design to grow up with

When designing family homes and apartments, we pay special attention to spaces for our younger clients – teenagers. In our projects, teenage rooms become their own micro-worlds, where they grow up, learn, socialize or relax.

By analyzing the needs of teenagers at home, we recognized this specific room as a fully standalone space, combining the characteristics of the day and night zone, and providing flexibility, both in use and design. When shaping the interior of teenage rooms, it is especially important to recognize the identity and character of the user, but also to predict how space and design can participate in growing up.

Youth needs in the residential area intertwine elements of ambience for learning, gathering and socializing, leisure, hobbies, rest and learning, which is why elements characteristic of living rooms, studies and bedrooms should be included in the teenage rooms. In our projects, these functional micro-ambiences are created through a unique design, in which the functions are overlapped and connected, thus maximizing all functional units.

MODERN TEENAGE ROOMS

Our design of working and studying space in teenage rooms is demonstrating how to arrange small rooms with multiple overlapping sections. Worktable in the design is becoming multifunctional space, overlaying with storage space – shelves and wardrobes, tailored made in non standard size, to be used for different activities. Same space can be used for studying, socialising, hobbies or even as a home office.

Alternating the day and night zones in teenage rooms

Teen room usage regimes have the biggest changes during the day, which is why they need to support different activities. Because of the flexibility of use, in design, we strive for no function to dominate space, but to all together form a unique whole, connected by striking architectural details, such as arches, colours, or materials.

As well as houses and apartments, the teenage rooms have their own division into day and night zones, although their boundaries are dispersed and subtle. In addition to beds, closets and desks that are inevitable functional elements, micro-ambiences of living rooms appear in our teenage room designs, with different, most commonly custom-made seating areas, which enable gathering and socializing in an attractive space.

MODERN ROOMS FOR TEENAGE GIRLS WITH CUSTOM MADE SITTING AREA

Personalized teenage room design – Between the child’s room and the “apartment within apartment”

In order to choose an adequate spatial accent that becomes the room’s identity, the first step in design is to meet teenagers and specific interests and hobbies to shape their space. In the personalised design of modern teenage rooms, the key motive is permeating elements of living colours, and strong geometry – as they might meet in children’s rooms, with carefully selected pieces of furniture, disposal spaces, work and gatherings, which resemble the “adult” environments present in the rest of the apartment or house. Our approach to designing teenage rooms treats these spaces almost as separate apartments within apartments, which have autonomy over the rest of the premises.

TEENAGE ROOM

Spaces for socializing and hobbies

In the transition between childhood and adult life, it is the spaces for socializing and gathering in teenage rooms that represent “transitional” spaces. While in relation to the shaping of children’s rooms, these spaces can be recognized as former play areas, articulated for new use by introducing different seating furniture, affirming gathering and socializing and staying of more people in the space, which resembles a colourfully designed living room.

Teenage rooms are most often inspired by music, certain styles, travels, or a particular favourite colour, which becomes the design motif of space. In the apartment in Knez Mihajlova teenage room is personalized with gold accents and neon lights that bring an unusual design to everyday space with black details.

In addition to defining space for socializing, in our projects we highlight the hobby of teenagers as a significant part of the design because it is through the details that affirm them that we create unique and personalized spaces. Whether it’s sports, programming or art, hobbies are translated into an architectural expression that emphasizes the individuality of each of our young clients.

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DECORATION FOR TEENAGE GIRLS