Bespoke stairs

An Arts Centre must be a place where creativity is shared in common spaces. From this starting point, mlkt designed the new facilities for Apertura, one of the most important photography schools in Spain. The property had a complicated distribution: natural lighting coming from one side only, a very narrow plan and a useless core occupied by the staircase and the lift for the apartments above. The project was solved by changing the circulation in the premises. We opened a big gap in the structure, where now stands a steel staircase in the corporate colour that organizes all the uses around. All the classrooms are disposed around this generous central space that both distributes the space and lets in the natural light that penetrates from th... More

The building is situated in the countryside near Genova, surrounded by a chestnut trees woods.Before the refurbishment works, the house was characterized by a long corridor that completely cut the flat, leading to the several rooms arranged on both its sides. The project changed this one-directional principle by demolishing half of this corridor and introducing a cross-shaped furniture that manages the whole house introducing a second direction.This huge furniture contains a stairs - connecting to an attic upstairs - and the suspended kitchen cabinets in the shorter cross arm, while the longer cross arm hosts the main closet and shelfs of the house. The bedrooms doors blend in this great blu closet that allowed to empty the former storage r... More