MTNS Apartment

Originally, the apartment was organized across two main levels: the first floor, accommodating living room, dining room, kitchen, storage and bathroom; the second floor, housing two bedrooms and a larger bathroom.

Despite its historic character, the apartment was overall in good condition. Rather than undertaking unnecessary operations of demolition and reconstruction, the whole renovation project was based on few main decisions: 1) on the first floor, to unify two separate rooms into one open living room with studio space; 2) to improve the system of communication between first and second floor, by modifying the existing staircase and making it more accessible; 3) to equip the bedrooms with in-built cabinets and closets; 4) to turn part of the roof into a balcony.

The first floor of the apartment, once designed as a sequence of kitchen, dining room and living room, has now become one single space, able to accommodate most of the art collection of the owner on one wall, and his library on the opposite wall.

While the first floor is characterized by a polychromatic variety due to the presence of artworks and books, the second floor has been conceived as an intimate and introverted space, characterized by the presence of wooden elements and bright colors.

A new staircase, completely painted in white, leads progressively from the urban atmosphere of the first floor, which overlooks the boulevard, to the quiet and silence of the second floor, which overlooks an interior courtyard. In the dichotomy between these two different atmospheres lies the essence of the project, whose goal was to provide multiple experiences within the same space of the house.