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Challenge
An open living space under a raw slab, crossed by a duct run, sprinkler pipework and a downstand beam, where the room had to keep as much height as possible.
Concept study
Coffered living room
A raised gypsum coffer with a concealed cove over an open living space, shown from bare slab to dusk.
Concept visualisationThis case study demonstrates the layout using concept visualisations rendered for this website. It is not a completed client project.
- Project
- Coffered living room
- Location
- Dubai — concept study
- Type
- Apartment
- Scope
- Suspended ceiling at two levels, cove detail, downlight band, painting.
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Approach
Keep the ceiling tight to the services around the perimeter as a bulkhead band, and raise the centre as a coffer where the void allows it. Downlights sit in the band; indirect light lives in the cove.
03
Execution
Suspension grid at two levels, a formed upstand along the coffer edge for a concealed strip, boards fixed, taped and finished, then the ceiling painted matt to keep the grazing light even.
04
Result
A room that reads taller than its perimeter height, with soft light washing the coffer and the services fully concealed but reachable.
Gallery4 images
Gallery
Coffer and cove detail 
Late-afternoon light 
Before: services below the slab 
Ceiling boarded at two levels
Concept visualisationRendered for this website to show the type of work. Not a completed client project.
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