A playful optimization
In Bologna Meloncello area, near the city stadium, a minimum size apartment with an unpredictable future has been transformed balancing shapes and colors.
47 sqm can expand perceptually if the right decisions are taken without giving up to a playful experience. How can it be possible? First of all transforming an hallway into a kitchen, then designing a piece of furniture made by solids and voids, along a structural portal transformed into a double archway.
The apartment spaces weren’t adequately exploited, so the layout was redesigned eliminating two main elements: the long entrance hallway and the tiny dining room. This wasn’t used because too small, the only heating system was an old stove located on the left close by the entrance, on the wall that divided this space from the living room. This wall was demolished and a new structural portal was created. To have an hall and a wardrobe in a single piece of furniture, we designed a customised closet that also frames the kitchen having a playful role.
Through it, we have been able to maintain the new openspace and to have a functional volume collocated between the two arches.
We decided to not express the structural frame and we have used plasterboard to create two arches with a small central area where the “hole furniture” is located becoming a double face element: from one side is shoe rack and closet and on the other side the final element of the kitchen.
The apartment has been equipped with heating and air conditioning system, sections of the floor were removed allowing the passage of electric and hydraulic system and the parquet was placed on top creating a warm background for the new plastic and colorful volumes.
The elements that could have formally spoiled the project, became instead an opportunity to characterize it. So the old hallway between the bathroom and the bedroom, was reduced to have the new laundry expressed by a clear blue volume to hide the misalignment between the walls.
The two arches have been designed to pass seamless from hall to living room and kitchen delimiting softly the spaces and the void of the entrance furniture let you look the kitchen being also a seating area.
Functionality and play coexist together with shapes and colors. The bathroom, revised and re-proportionated, becomes a mediterranean ambient where the brightness of the small white listels exalt even more the white and blue geometries of the pavement.
B.CL house is an house that reflects the personality of its inhabitant: a young designer that projects without forgetting the importance of play and smile.
