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The No-Wall Apartment in Prague by RDTH architekti challenges the traditional domestic layout, where individual rooms – like grapes – connect to a central corridor. By removing almost all traditional brick walls and doors—except for the toilet door—the interior is restructured into an open, adaptable field shaped by light, air, and movement. It is defined by white built-in furniture, iconic freestanding pieces, indoor plants, and personal objects, creating a flexible living environment that balances spatial clarity, comfort, and personal expression.
The idea of living without walls may sound extreme within the context of conventional housing. Domestic interiors have long been defined by enclosed rooms assigned to specific functions: sleeping, cooking, working, hygiene or relaxation. These divisions provide comfort, privacy and order, responding to practical needs such as acoustics, daylight, ventilation and the rhythms of everyday life. Yet traditional apartment layouts can also impose rigidity, limiting how space is perceived and inhabited.
Corridors, doors and permanent partitions often predetermine movement and behavior, regardless of the actual size of the home.
The No-Wall Apartment challenges this established model by proposing a more open and adaptable way of living. Rather than relying on fixed rooms, the project explores how varying degrees of transparency, permeability and flexibility can shape domestic space.
The result is an interior that operates simultaneously as a unified environment and as a sequence of distinct living zones.
The Thin Line Between a 1-Bedroom and a 4-Bedroom Apartment
With the exception of the installation shaft and the skylight, all original partitions were removed from the apartment. In place of walls, a single compact furniture block was introduced at the center of the layout.Slightly rotated within the floor plan, this element reorganizes the entire apartment and generates a series of functional zones around it.
Through this intervention, the apartment acquires the complexity of a multi-room dwelling while preserving the openness of a loft.
The space can be experienced as both a one-bedroom apartment and a four-room interior, depending on how it is used. Spatial hierarchy no longer depends on rigid enclosures but instead emerges through movement, changing atmospheres and visual relationships between the different zones. The architectural language is intentionally reduced to a limited number of elements.
Built-in furniture, curtains and glass concrete blocks replace traditional walls and doors, allowing light and sound to pass through while maintaining subtle levels of separation.
Freestanding furniture, plants and personal objects remain flexible and movable, reinforcing the apartment’s capacity to evolve over time. The design anticipates future changes, enabling new spatial arrangements without major reconstruction.
Two Kitchens
The apartment includes two separate kitchen areas that reflect different modes of domestic use. The first kitchen, located directly within the living space, functions more as a domestic café than a conventional cooking area.
Designed for informal everyday rituals rather than intensive food preparation, it can easily accommodate another use in the future.
The second kitchen, positioned deeper within the apartment, contains all the necessary appliances for cooking and household maintenance. Connected to open shelving, a freestanding washer and a dryer, this service area is concealed behind a movable curtain that allows it to either integrate into the open plan or disappear entirely from view.
Hygiene Block
Sanitary functions are organized behind the central furniture volume. The toilet, enclosed by translucent glass concrete blocks, remains the only fully separated room in the apartment and the only space with a traditional door. A raised platform conceals water and drainage systems for the sink and washbasin, while several bathroom functions intentionally extend beyond the enclosed shower area.
In this way, elements such as the washbasin become part of the broader living environment rather than remaining confined to a conventional bathroom.
Materials and Light
The atmosphere of the apartment is defined by a restrained material palette. The exposed concrete skeleton of the building reveals the raw structure of the existing space, while plastered perimeter walls, oak parquet flooring, blackout curtains and translucent glass blocks soften the interior.
White built-in furniture contrasts with the tactile materiality of the concrete shell, while selected freestanding pieces, plants and personal belongings introduce warmth and individuality.
Lighting follows the same principle of reduction. The apartment operates through a single digitally controlled lighting circuit managed via mobile devices, a home tablet or selected physical switches, reinforcing the project’s minimal and adaptable character.
Apartment in the City
The apartment’s equipment also responds to the immediate accessibility of city services. Within a ten-minute walking distance, there are grocery and other stores, restaurants and cafes, sports facilities, parks, cultural institutions, a large library and a metro station with a direct connection to the international airport.
In practice, this means that the apartment only needs basic storage capacity for groceries and can afford to remain spacious and open.
Openness as a Decision
The No-Wall Apartment approaches openness not as a conscious way of living, while remaining open to transformation.
Additional partitions, curtains or furniture elements can easily be introduced in the future, allowing the apartment to continuously adapt to the changing needs and priorities of its inhabitants.
Short Bio
Studio RDTH architekti was founded in Prague in 2017 by Tamara Kolaříková (Horová) and René Dlesk. In their current practice, they mainly focus on private projects of small and medium scales.
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Facts & Credits
Title No-Wall Apartment
Typology Interior, Apartment, Renovation
Location Prague, Czech Republic
Area 101 m²
Status Completed, 2026
Architecture RDTH architekti
Authors René Dlesk, Tamara Kolaříková
Design Team Kristián Vnučko, Kristýna Kopecká
Photography Filip Beránek
Text by the authors