The
penthouse is located above a block of flates, built in the sixties. The flat
area is smaller than the lower floors, due to the façade withdrawing that
generates a great terrace, all around the flat. Every room is connected with
the exterior.
A flat roof
defines the volume, closed by a sequence of walls and large windows. A large
quantity of light comes in the interior spaces from these windows, which offers
a favoured view on the hills of the up country and to the coasts.
The new plan
organization favours direct connection between living room and the great
terrace. The main project purpose is to define a threshold between this two
spaces. Due to the presence of several windows, the wall is difficultly usable.
Besides living room and terrace are located on different levels. The solution
is a fixed furniture, with irregular profile, a wave covered by a marble top
that make ephemeral the border between in and out. At the same time is a seating,
a base, a support.
The glazed
kitchen, that seems polished by water,
with glazing lavastone floor, is strict in shapes and refined in
materials. Visible through the glazed sliding doors, it’s a quiet presence that
change the space of living room, becoming an extension of the latter when the
doors are open.
The oak
floor, chairs, wooden furniture, some walls paint, suspension lamps, take up
the colour of sand. Suspension lamps remind naval lanterns, emphasized by the
contrast with other more discreet lights, as recessed lamps.
Three
elements organize the corner with the sofa. Green colour that remind underwater
landscapes, the contrast between the different colour of the walls, and the
upper bookshelves that change the measure of the wall. These solutions cancel
the corner perception.
The same
“sand theme” characterizes bedrooms and bathrooms.
A renovation
that research, through colours, materials, use of transparencies and space
sequence definition, an elegant sea atmosphere.