Piano Nobile Loft
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Residential| Northern Italy | 750 sf | Built
This apartment gut-renovation inside a 16th century palazzo addresses a number of structural issues and transforms the space into a large, loft-like studio with a mezzanine. The design strategy leaves the majority of ceiling plane uninterrupted, recreating the scale of the original space: once the palace living room, it was subsequently divided into small rooms. Formally, the bathroom and mezzanine volumes are expressed as inserted objects within the historical fabric. The material palette reinforces such distinction: sheetrock and wood veneer millwork for the new insertions; exposed brick for the existing walls.
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Adaptive Reuse, Architecture, Interior Design, FFE
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Ottavio Tomasini
Open space with kitchen, dining and living room
View from entry corridor
Staircase leading to mezzanine
Mezzanine bedroom
A horizontal datum surrounding the living area sets up a contrast with the historical material fabric which has been left exposed
Custom vanity and mirror at bathroom
Sitting area and dining table with furniture designed by alepreda for miduny
Drawings
Main floor plan and mezzanine
Exploded axo with "inserted elements"
Background
Doodle
Conceptual sketch
Rendering of open space
Bathroom section perspective
Construction site right after demolition
Steel reinforcing
Exposing original ceiling
Site photos during construction
Site photos during construction