The primordial refuge shouldn’t be far more than a fireplace and a protected house for relaxation. But when the refuge strikes downtown, then it wants a further house, one consecrated to the spirit of the town. It consists of this and little extra: an alcove behind a display screen, a small kitchen, a front room, and our most beloved knick-knacks.
Right here, two home windows overlook a quiet courtyard and three magnolia timber. And they’re excessive sufficient to border a non-public piece of sky. Outdoors, simply past the curtain of a Nineteen Twenties constructing, swarms the town of design with its worldwide faculties (IED is simply across the nook) and of its famend pastry outlets. These are the dowries of this little treasure chest, that’s the remnant of a reckless subdivision of the 80s: the silence and the sunshine of those two views.
When the plan you’re employed on is a 5,5 by 3,8 meters rectangle, every little thing appears too shut, each house too vertical, every bit of furnishings cumbersome. So, remembering Eames and his room, we resorted to all the required tips, placing into follow the tips of a craft we’re studying.
The total-height mirror, which is half the door to the lavatory and half the door of a cupboard, doubles the dimensions of the doorway and frees the display screen wall from its constraints. However additionally it is the very helpful mirror for the final have a look at your outfit earlier than leaving house.
The spatiality is broadened by the horizontal design of the furnishings, which by no means exceeds the 2 ancestral heights: that of standing work and that of sitting.
The blue coloration of the again wall is a trick to extend the depth of the lounge however additionally it is the correct coloration to envelop your awakening.
When house is proscribed then it have to be versatile and pleasantly ambiguous: what it’s a kitchen at 7 at 9 it’s my little cinema. What makes this duplicity potential are the particular furnishing objects, which when open evoke a spatiality, when closed a totally completely different one.
The eating desk is spherical and extra beneficiant than one may suppose for our little city retreat. Its metamorphosis takes place in two strikes too: the highest retracts to develop into a white round canvas on the wall, whereas the shelf that helps it turns into the backrest of the bench that extends underneath the home windows.
The kitchen has a metal backsplash that closes in two actions, hiding burners and water, and relieving the house from dysfunction. This gesture and its curved form make it resemble a chest or a console, two objects that quickly take us again to the picture of a small lounge.
Lastly, the picket bed-alcove incorporates inside itself all the weather of the small bed room, virtually as if it had been a small treasure chest, the trunk that incorporates our most helpful garments for our journey to the town.
Its headboard, deep sufficient to accommodate bedtime books, hides comfy cupboards. Its high lifts and a tiny door provides us entry to a small private walk-in closet with two fronts.
A secret drawer, current within the geared up wall of the lounge, is the comfy step that permits us to cover on the ground of this welcoming alcove.
These areas, though alive with transformations, goal to convey a way of calm serenity. That is why we considered a restricted and truthful materials palette: what’s made from wooden reveals its very important essence, what’s metallic exhibits its sidereal shine. The whole lot is designed to favor gentle and its reflections: the white plastered partitions of the lounge reveal the brilliant colours of the extra cozy and intimate areas.
Thus, a small window above the kitchen-console illuminates the house with the ruby reflection with which the lavatory is roofed, the place the handmade zellige tile needs to evoke the vaporous intimacy of a small and private spa. In an ambiguous and really enjoyable to design phantasm, the mirror over the sink turns into clear in its highest half to permit the entry of pure gentle coming from past the wall.
Typology: Micro Residing; Place: Milan, Italy; yr: 2024.03; Sqm: 21; Undertaking Design: ATOMAA; Design Staff: Umberto Maj, Andrea del Pedro Pera, Cesare Galligani, Bianca Magi, Fabio Figaroli; Photographer: Alberto Strada;
Supply: Inside Zine
