Trieste
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Project • By EMPATE STUDIO • Apartments
CASA EMME
In the heart of Trieste, within an early twentieth-century building, the project transforms an apartment whose original layout remains legible, reinterpreting its logic to accommodate contemporary living.
Davide Maria Palusa
The existing plan—three rooms in sequence, a separate kitchen and fragmented service areas—reflected a highly compartmentalized domestic model. The intervention works through processes of reconnection, identifying key points of transformation along the circulation spine.
Davide Maria Palusa
The primary gesture is the opening between kitchen and living room, establishing a new social and spatial core. Here, the central island acts as both functional and relational anchor, while a system of walnut... More
Project • By Secco Sistemi SPA • Distribution Centres
Ex Magazzino Vini
The warehouse situated along the Trieste seafront was one of the simple, functional nineteenth-century buildings that were built for the port of the Hapsburg city. The restoration of the low building with just one floor transformed the interior: the walls were restored, faced with stone and continue below street level.
The walls of a new room are detached and parallel: a transparent casket that rises above the line of the eaves. This is the evocative theme of the incorporation, of nesting dolls: in addition to the arching of the original architectural complex, one can see the glass walls of the new interior, with the addition of precious burnished brass profiles.
With the arrangement of the mirroring, which varies depending on the directi... More