A project designed for a young couple careful to contemporary language, with the wish to think home as a flexible space, ready to welcome their many friends. This design takes into account the expectations of the client, creating a radical restoration of the original layout.
The designers meant to create a bright and organic living area, experimenting with innovative materials along with others, rich in tradition, yet providing a minimal, but at the same time, charmful ambient. The unique Sicilian light and the favorable location of the south-west rooftop terrace have been fully exploited, allowing the light to be the protagonist of the architecture thanks to the large panoramic windows giving a unifying trait to every room. This resulted in a modern apartment -a penthouse that rediscovers light.
From the vestibule, through the construction of a specially designed fifth glass window, whichat the same time divides and links the dining-kitchen area and the living room, it is possible to glimpse at the living space framed in a doorway with a white lacquered wooden wardrobe. A shelf in white cement, positioned between two glass panes, and finished with a protective resin, ties in the different areas of the apartment, welcoming visitors from the entrance to the living area, thus creating fascinating perspective glimpses through glass cuts or openings between walls. The view, studied according to hierarchies and diversities, enhances the sense of space and lightness that is enriched by the refined articulation of the volumes. The project intervention has affected the entire apartment area, acting carefully and in detail on every aesthetic and functional aspect, articulating the spaces as to give more fluidity to the rooms, and by mediating the transition between the sleeping and the day area as well. This has been achieved through the creation of a plastic element which is the core of the design: a natural oak and glass piece of furniture –a cabinet imagined as a semi-transparent theatre wing. One of the perfectly camouflaged cabinet doors is the entrance door leading to the bedroom through the unexpectedly bright hallway thanks to the frosted glass of a dark color. The cabinet contains all the wiring for the electric and heating system, in order to make this piece functional for the different needs and versatile for its many functions.
