The condo, situated within the Corso di Porta Ticinese space, is on the primary flooring of a constructing relationship again to the mid-1800s. The house is configured as an extended and slender area, characterised by an irregular form, a load-bearing wall that cuts the area transversally and by two reverse and distant window fronts. The mission is outlined by the seek for steadiness between a recent area and the historic reminiscence of a standard Milanese condo with a railing. It dialogues with two completely different souls of Milan: on the one hand the liveliness and frenzy of the Corso, on the opposite the tranquility of a Milan usually hidden by the constructing curtains.
A small entrance modulates the passage from the gallery to the house, contained in the sleeping space. The positioning of the bed room close to the doorway derives from spatial constraints and the necessity to distance probably the most non-public space of the house from the noise of Corso Ticinese, thus leaving the dwelling space to the west, on the brighter facet. Two arches created within the load-bearing partitions join the 2 areas and lead the attention to the dwelling space. The curved form of the arches served as a producing component for the development of different design parts, such because the observe lighting system and the quantity of the providers, along with the glass block used for its lighting. The spherical form turns into a attribute of the mission, giving it identification and lowering the notion of the quantity constructed throughout the area.
The suspended black observe is configured as a component of visible continuity between the completely different rooms of the home, additionally responding to particular practical wants. The observe, which homes the lighting system, extends from the bed room, the place it additionally helps a big curtain that hides the mattress from view, to the dwelling space, the place it follows the weather of the kitchen. The displacement of the kitchen cupboards and the walk-in closet from the partitions permits for the design of fluid paths within the area. Moreover, the perpendicular orientation of the kitchen with respect to the window entrance permits for the diffusion of pure gentle to be averted and for a direct dialogue to be created with the opposite areas of the dwelling space.
The place attainable, present parts of the place have been recovered, such because the uncovered beams, the fireside, the marble slabs used for the thresholds and the niches obtained from the opening of the unique doorways, which joined the constructing transversally. The lavatory, designed to be the one quantity constructed inside the home, behaves like an geared up system. A collection of niches design the area, internet hosting all of the practical parts of the room and the condo; in the direction of the surface there may be entry to a laundry space, a closet and a pantry, whereas contained in the area has been created for the sink, the sanitary ware and the bathe.
The usage of birch plywood parts in each the sleeping space and the dwelling space, in addition to within the service areas, produces additional visible references and connects the environments to one another based on a standard visible language.
Supply: Inside Zine
