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Project • By KICK.OFFICEApartments

CASA SA

We are in a 70 square meter apartment in the Milanese district of NoLo. The original layout is very traditional: five different rooms, rather small in size, are accessible from a unique space that serves as both entrance and hallway. Giulia Benedetta Costa Giulia Benedetta Costa The main goal was therefore to break this rigid distribution by enhancing the spatial continuity and maximizing the brightness, a potential given the double exposure of the building. A highlighted sign of the space enlargement is the beam-column structure in exposed, rough concrete. This brutalist gesture generates a loud contrast with the precious existing floor: a polychrome palladiana marble which becomes the inspiring motif of the entire chromatic pal... More

Project • By studio.tracciaApartments

Casa Rospigliosi

A 1950s residence, surrounded by a park in San Siro district, is the context of this renovation. Located on the edge of the urban fabric of Milan, the complex reflects the urbanity of the city and the vastness of the rural spaces.  To echo the stadium and its raw tectonics, the building reveals its concrete structure on the ground floor, which is however denied inside the apartments, under layers of masonry and plaster. To make the building's structure resurface immediately seemed like an idea capable of giving a specific identity to the space, in an intervention, where the desire was to join two separate apartments.  simone bossi simone bossi The large space of the living room is freed up and becomes the opportun... More