Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in his book on the theory of colors, stated that for a single contrast to be harmonious, it must contain totality.
Totality is achieved with balance, which in turn can be achieved by synthesizing different chromatic agreements (and we add, also material ones) in the same composition.
The SambUrban project was born from the idea of obtaining the desired totalitarian harmony by following a bold path, that is, by proposing a dichotomy of chromatic and material agreements structured on the play of opposites.
The client's request to receive a design project with an orthodox modernist taste with brutalist details led us to abandon the idea of conventional chromatic sobriety, decreed by the use of colors guided by grayscale agreements as the modernist world often shows us.
Chromatic agreements of chiaroscuro placed side by side with natural/artificial material agreements, allow us to create an elegantly fresh but at the same time familiar, warm and welcoming atmosphere.
The elegance of the strong contrast between the lilial white that furnishes almost the entire living area, clashes and balances with the strong dark gray materiality of the long minimalist wall that divides the living area from the sleeping area.
This wall integrates “The invisible” the semi-camouflaged door that would introduce to the hallway and the sleeping area,
This minimalist but rich dividing partition also houses the TV package that is completed by a bioethanol fireplace in length, which thanks to the dark background wall, would enhance all the fiery tones of its flames.
The details and furnishings are designed to unleash the natural/artificial, hot/cold agreement, between the refined material oak wood that is contrasted and balanced by the cold and shiny chromed steel.
Like the living area (the whole house, following different percentage ratios between light and dark, hot and cold), it proposes this game of opposites that can be understood as the marriage between darkness and light (reference to William Blake's work "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"), or the meeting point between two entities that Goethe himself will establish as the real generators of all the other infinite chromatic varieties that nature allows us to appreciate and love every day.
