Folding Flooring | Pieter Graaff

This room needed a new flooring, which could function as a total make-over for the apartment. We wanted to create a creative, stunning experience with the use of simple materials, available at the local DIY-shop. Therefore we chose to give the L-shaped room a laminate floor composed out of three different colours of the same click laminate product. To accentuate the thinness and 'fakeness' of the material (it's supposed to look like wood) besides combining different colours, the laminate was rotated 30 degrees and folded as a sheet of paper onwards the wall. Where the laminate meets the socket-outlet, an even simple as sophisticated solution is introduced by just drilling four holes in the laminate. This small-scale project became representative for vit-b architecture as it integrates flooring, wall finishing and electricity and puts a high focus on craftsmanship. Project team: Pieter Graaff, Daniël Bartling