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This Berlin apartment features its own secret escape route
Escaping your mother-in-law has never been as easy as in this Berlin apartment – simply dash behind the bookcase, slide down the fireman’s pole and you’re in your home office.
Hidden behind the bookcase, guests have to look twice before noticing that there’s more to it.
Stretching over the fourth and fifth floor, the rooftop extension, of a residential block in Berlin Kreuzberg, the apartment – named Haus JJ – features more than just quick escape routes.
Designed by Berlin-based design studio NOWlab, Haus JJ is divided into two main zones: the fourth floor is designed as the private zone and hosts the family bedrooms as well as more quiet areas to work and relax.
The lower floor bathrooms – one for the kids, one for the parents – impress with modern yet unique designs.
On the open plan fifth floor, the public zone compromises of a grand kitchen, dining area and spacious living room, ideal to entertain friends and family without having them to close to your private space.
At the apartment’s heart, the skylight and staircase connect distinct zones rather than just floors.
Sitting under a large skylight, the spiral staircase connecting both areas turns into the apartment’s central element, the pivot point, clearly distinguishing between different zones – not just between floors.
It’s unique color scheme, paired with slim treads and a rope balustrade, turn the staircase into a piece of furniture rather than a necessity.
Inspired by Kreuzbergs Brandwaende (fire walls) – often decorated with graffiti or taken over by urban foliage – the staircase’s herringbone floor incorporates vibrant colors next to neutrals, rising halfway up the stairs before they fade out.
The floor’s colorful pattern emulates foliage growing on fire walls.
As for the fireman’s pole, founder Jörg Petri told Dezeen the owners wanted a slide, but the floor plan did not allow enough space for it – so they came up with a smaller, but equally as fun way to travel between floors.
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Stefanie Gerdes
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