# Colombo 6 is a young and sparkling Studio, inserted in a historic building in the heart of the city of Morbegno, in the center of the Alps. Located on the ground floor, it makes transparency and permeability its distinctive character, managing to interact with the adjacent narrow pedestrian streets of the historic center thanks to the large windows that create a continuity between inside and outside.
The project has matured in respect of pre-existences, trying to enhance as much as possible the compositional and material elements in place (terracotta flooring, wooden ceiling, vaults) making them live with the new furniture and the consequent different spatial organization that was born.
The colors chosen are deliberately neutral in an attempt to give brightness to the spaces, as well as the materials used, in our case iron and wood, here understood as poor materials that are well linked with the context by acting as a filter in this forced coexistence between old and new and the volumes, characterized by simple and clean lines.
Pursuing the logic that work activities are always changing throughout the day, the furnishings have also been designed in the name of versatility: the iron blackboard divides an operating space, consisting of 4 workstations, from the meeting table, allowing at the same time to write and note work reminders and acting as a background for projections and video conferences.
The wooden table of considerable size has been deliberately rounded on the sides with a 45 ° cut made manually in the laboratory, in the desire to bring out the craftsmanship of the realization, as well as the iron legs with visible welds, here staggered and perforated, in an attempt to give lightness, suspension and harmony to the entire structure.
The immediately adjoining workstations make use of two half-height bookcases connected to each other by the desks on the long sides, which constitute a natural extension, first of all guaranteeing confidentiality for the workers, visual continuity and also generating two passage corridors that acted as a link with the reception and creative area. The latter, narrow and long, was equipped on the sides, separating it from the corridor facing the street for customers by means of a perforated sheet that could guarantee optimal lighting, satisfactory privacy and greater spatial depth to the room, otherwise too narrow and low.
The reception, in an attempt to ensure greater useful space at the entrance, was designed with an oblique side, characterized by the presence of a setback aimed at hosting a series of wooden slats recalling the ceiling, ensuring that this play of volumes could guarantee lightness and at the same time eliminate the barrier effect once you enter.
The lighting was designed using suspension lighting fixtures, anchored to the wooden ceiling by steel tie rods, simple in their rectangular shape and deliberately repeated in each individual environment, thus making up for the diversity of the furniture and acting as a binder.
To give a further vintage touch to the environment, an old Vespa from 1964 will take care of welcoming customers.
