PLACE
Parma

STATUS
Achieved

CHRONOLOGY
2018

CATEGORY
residential, interior architecture, design

The complete renovation of an apartment, located in a 1960s apartment building, was guided by the desire to make the most of the contribution of natural light coming from two mutually perpendicular facades.
Subverting the distributional logic of the time, which saw an alternation of servant rooms (such as entrance, corridor, hallway) and served rooms, the project identifies the living area as the space to which the rooms and services pertain, without the presence of real anterooms. Characterized by a fluid layout, the living room accommodates the different functions (entrance, library, conversation, kitchen and dining) in a single environment in which the planimetric conformation gives them their own autonomy.
The concrete structural elements have been freed from the plaster layer, revealing the traces of the planks that constituted the formwork; these thus enter into dialogue with the wooden slats of the floor and paneling. Like a system of Cartesian axes, pillar and beams become a hinge around which all the rooms of the house rotate.
The space is also modulated by some of the translucent polycarbonate baffles that help to diffuse natural light into the areas furthest from the windows, and by lowered ceilings that emphasize transitions from one room to another.