Edges Apartments Salmiya, Kuwait Commission : Studio Toggle

Studio Toggle Architects were commissioned to design an apartment building as an investment property. Since the site lacked street character, the brief for this 10-storey project, housing 20 two-bedroom apartments, was a practical design approach, coupled with low-maintenance living spaces, suitable to an expat lifestyle and a distinct street presence.

- Simi Kaur Dhaliwal

The designers soon realized that façade design for a high rise should be aesthetically pleasing and functionally sound, and therefore focused on creating a simple articulated scheme. The transposition of the edges are in rhythmic order on either side of a finite axis, and this imparts drama to the façade; which is further enhanced by the use of brick cladding and an exposed concrete finish. This articulation is of functional importance as it achieves more