10 home interiors with inventive broken-plan layouts

With the pandemic top to a shift absent from open-system domestic interiors, our newest lookbook showcases 10 houses with damaged programs that deliver additional privateness.


A broken plan is an inside that has been divided into zones to cater to various pursuits and privacy ranges, with no remaining break up into particular person rooms.

This is usually achieved applying impermanent or semi-open up partitions, but often cleverly arranged furniture such as bookcases, different ground finishes or break up degrees can be utilised to make the outcome.

In an interview with Dezeen very last December, Albert Hill of structure-led estate agent The Modern day Residence advised Dezeen that customers were being ever more hunting for homes with a variety of unique areas that allowed them to operate from home without the need of interruptions.

“People are moving absent from open up-system areas now,” Hill reported. “Individuals like a minor bit extra wide variety.”

This is the newest roundup in our Dezeen Lookbooks collection offering visual inspiration for the home. Past lookbooks shine a light on household loft conversions, mezzanines, and Scandi residing rooms.


A kitchen with wooden partitions

Fruit Box, Uk, by Nimtim Architects

Adaptable, semi-open partitions designed from plywood and planed softwood crack up the floor floor of this London townhouse that was recently revamped by Nimtim Architects.

Each individual partition is non-structural and at this time positioned to distinguish the kitchen, dining and dwelling parts. Having said that, they are intended to be stuffed in to maximize privateness or simply taken out to maximise open house based on the family’s foreseeable future demands.

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An apartment divided by cabinetry

Kevin, Hong Kong, by JAAK

Interiors studio JAAK replaced partitions with personalized cabinetry when overhauling this Hong Kong apartment in an effort and hard work to generate a vivid and flexible living place.

The bedroom, which is accessed by two actions, is been nestled powering a built­-in desk with a Normann Copenhagen armchair to give privacy. The only completely enclosed house is the bathroom, which is hidden by a mystery doorway.

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An apartment divided by curtains

Condominium in Sant Andreu, Spain, by Oriol Garcia

A split-degree ground, bookcases and white curtains assistance to outline the various locations in this 45-square-metre apartment, which was redesigned by architect Oriol Garcia as her personal home.

The curtains and bookcases different the zone for sleeping and bathing from the area utilised for cooking and lounging. At a person stop of the lounge, a smaller stage and a improve in floor masking have been made use of to produce a secluded sunroom.

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Open shelving joinery

Knightsbridge Mews, British isles, by Echlin

Echlin revamped this London dwelling with a series of intelligent damaged-plan layouts, like a basement amount that features a sunken seating area to be certain the areas are connected but visually individual.

On the ground ground, bespoke open up shelving divides the research and dwelling place from the dining room, which is equipped out with cane and banquette seating.

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Open shelving joinery

Architect Workshop, Russia, by Ruetemple

A ground-to-ceiling plywood partition with constructed-in shelving gives rise to unique working and rest locations inside of this artwork studio, which sits within just the garage of a home in Moscow.

The wood framework also incorporates a desk, a massive L-formed couch with grey upholstery and a established of measures that ascend to a suspended sleeping platform with rope balustrades.

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A white living room with a marble partition

Antwerp penthouse, Belgium, by De Meester Vliegen Architecten

A two-ton slab of marble that is wedged in between the ceiling and a steel fire can help to create the broken-program format of this penthouse in a 1960s creating in Antwerp.

The marble will work in tandem with a substantial quantity driving it, which is clad in walnut veneer and contains useful rooms to break up the dwelling’s residing locations into a lounge, bed room, dining room and business office.

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A kitchen with a glass partition

Museum Sq. House, Spain, by Pauzarq

The damaged-system structure of this condominium in Bilbao was guided by its primary concrete girders that were being uncovered by Spanish studio Pauzarq for the duration of a renovation.

In a person area, a U-formed timber-framed glass partition wraps about a eating desk to set it aside from the kitchen powering it. The goal was to near the kitchen off though still permitting mild to enter the place.

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A penthouse broken by wooden partitions

Penthouse BV, Belgium, by Adjo Studio

Huge picket elements that span from flooring to ceiling were being utilized to reorganise this open-program penthouse in Hasselt into additional realistic areas.

Crafted from cherry wood veneer, the elements get the sort of kitchen cabinets, wardrobes and bookshelves. Their arrangement also can help to maximise light-weight from the glazed partitions that wrap all over the apartment’s exterior.

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A white-walled dining room

Residence CT, Italy, by Pietro Airoldi Studio

Although renovating this apartment in Sicily, architect Pietro Airoldi Studio taken out all of its partitions to maximise gentle. Nevertheless, to determine its interiors into zones, personalized-made cabinetry has been released.

The apartment’s primary dwelling space is established aside from the eating spot by a plywood and MDF partition that incorporates storage and openings to sustain a visual link.

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A bright blue staircase

Fin Dwelling, United kingdom, by RA Tasks

A vivid blue steel staircase intended to resemble a sculpture breaks up the white-walled interiors of this London household, redesigned for vogue designer Roksanda Ilincic.

Jogging through the centre of the property, the stairwell is meant to make division though offering a “degree of permeability”, according to architect RA Assignments. On one particular floor, it incorporates shelving and is employed to independent the kitchen from a living room on the other aspect.

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This is the latest in our collection of lookbooks providing curated visible inspiration from Dezeen’s image archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks showcasing mezzanines, U-shaped kitchens and calm living rooms.