Scott Whitby Studio creates multi-level boudoir for a throuple

Three individuals can sleep, observe yoga or drink whisky collectively on this bed room designed by London-based Scott Whitby Studio.

The shoppers are a throuple – a romantic relationship between three individuals. They requested Scott Whitby Studio to create them a bespoke boudoir of their south London dwelling, which additionally options areas for different actions.

The architects responded with a reimagining of the conventional four-poster mattress. Above the massive sleeping house is a mezzanine that can be utilized for studying, train and different types of rest.

Studio founder Alex Scott Whitby mentioned the undertaking was “uncommon and thrilling”. He noticed it as a possibility to rethink the everyday bed room format, the place furnishings is solely dotted round a room.

“Making house for a recent relationship typology was a brand new problem for us as a studio to deal with,” he mentioned.

Referred to as The Tri-Pod, the mattress construction contains an enormous piece of joinery, crafted from walnut.

Two first-floor rooms, each with excessive ceilings and tall home windows, had been mixed to create space for it. It sits within the centre, away from the partitions, permitting mild to achieve all components of the room.

The mattress, with a mattress massive sufficient for 3, might be opened up or closed off.

This enables one of many threesome, who suffers from a sleep problem, to take pleasure in a restful evening’s sleep sheltered from road noise and planes. It additionally permits the mattress to be hid when the trio are entertaining friends.

A storage closet is slotted into one facet, alongside a staircase that results in the higher deck. Scott Whitby describes this higher degree as “a secret leisure world for whisky tasting, yoga and studying”.

The architect means that extra of London’s Victorian properties might be reconfigured on this approach, creating two rooms on prime of each other reasonably than facet by facet.

“We’re delighted that our shopper loves their quirky, sensible, unique mattress and that we have now been in a position to assist them reside in an area that fulfils their wants and necessities in an revolutionary and transformational approach,” he mentioned.

Different initiatives accomplished by Scott Whitby Studio embrace a pop-up cinema in a delivery container. It’s at the moment engaged on a renovation of an art-deco sea pool in Cornwall.

Pictures is by Nicholas Worley.