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NETSCAPE APARTMENT SINGLE-UNIT RESIDENCE BELGRADE, SERBIA Netscape Apartment is an explora on in making a con nuous space. Previously funconally fragmented spaces of this Modernist apartment building is now an unified open space with minimal physical divisions.

The infrastructure is the only trace of the separa on of func ons. The guts of the apartment: structural columns, electrical cables, light, internet, television and telephone have been detached from walls and unified. The cables are channeled through the ceiling branches throughout the apartment and brought to the central point. The central column is also a main network area where all cables meets, and where the main control sta on lay. The main hub consis ng of all electrical connec ons is the entertainment center, with the TV, speakers, light switches, internet modem and telephone connec on.

The living room is a space for working, lounging, cooking and ea ng. Each of the ac vi es is defined by the built-in furniture rater than the dividing walls: with the work desk, dining table, kitchen cabinets, and the reading library.

Most furniture in the apartment is custom built to maximize its use and increase organiza on within spaces. Even with no physical boundaries, each area is self suďŹƒcient and adjusted to the complete sa sfac on of user needs. This apartment is a func onal machine that allows internal psychological and community development.

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