What do you mean by duplex apartment?

Duplex apartment means adding a mezzanine on the higher floor of the house, and the total height of the two floors is lower than that of the duplex house.

Usually the duplex is 3.3 meters and the duplex is 5.6 meters. The ground floor of duplex apartment can be designed as kitchen, dining room, living room, etc. And the second floor is generally designed as a bedroom and kitchen. Duplex apartments can increase the use area of houses and improve the land utilization rate.

Duplex apartment is an economical residence inspired by the design concept of duplex residence. Duplex apartment has the characteristics of high utilization rate of indoor space, separation of static and dynamic, and more personalized private design. However, there are also some problems in duplex apartments, such as height restriction and stair design safety.

Conceptually speaking, a duplex apartment is a one-story apartment, which does not have a complete two-story space, but its height is 3.3 meters higher than that of an ordinary house (usually 2.8 meters higher). A mezzanine can be added locally to decorate the bedroom or study, and the stairs are used to connect the upper and lower floors. Its purpose is to increase the usable area in a limited space and improve the space utilization rate of the house. Duplex residence is a kind of affordable housing.

Advantages of duplex apartment

1. Because of the characteristics of duplex design, duplex residence is far superior to ordinary residence in space utilization. Through the mezzanine, duplex houses have expanded the use space by 50% or even more than ordinary houses. Simply put, this is a design idea of "demanding space from a height".

2. Now many friends are using the characteristics of duplex houses to realize dynamic and static zoning in a limited area. Usually, daily life and entertainment are arranged on the lower floor, and home office, study place and storage space are arranged on the upper floor. There is also the design that the bedroom is arranged on the upper floor, which has the advantage of making the private space more private.

3. One advantage of duplex residence is that it provides more design space for special residence. Through the redesign and subdivision of indoor space, more creativity can be incorporated and personality can be embodied. In the actual design, there is a design that the lower floor is all family entertainment centers and the upper floor is all non-entertainment areas, which is very personalized.