The project concerns the renovation of an apartment within a nineteenth-century building partly renovated at the beginning of ' 900.
The apartment was divided in two different parts.The oldest area, overlooking the street, with a larger architectural quality and construction, and a second area on a slightly higher level, which opens towards the courtyard.
In this double condition you find the main elements that have defined the project.
The research draws upon reaching the maximum spatial possibilities of the older part and its relationship with the second one. The first, where is placed the living room, develops on a longitudinal succession of spaces, parallel to the road, where the rhythm of the windows defines the internal space of each room.
The second, where the bedrooms are located, relates to the first through a single narrow passage that generates a light cross-cut on the appartment that brings together the two façade.
Some existing elements are preserved, and besides revealing a memory and the character of a place, help to define the spaces. The old doors, replaced, mark sequencing the premises; the existent wooden floor becomes two carpets drowned in new wooden floor, which underline the spatial definition of the living room and the kitchen.
