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    Rome, Rione Monti

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Photography: Carlo Oriente 
24 / 04 / 2024
Styling: Alessandra Orzali
An intervention that emphasises contemporaneity without forgetting history. 
The Punto Zero studio realised the renovation project for this flat in a 17th-century building in the Monti neighbourhood, working on the existing sequence of the three spaces in which the house is located. The architects created a new space with a light atmosphere, illuminated by hints of block colour, and which presents 'two different souls: the "public" house, bright and open, overlooking a small street in the neighbourhood, and the "private" house, more intimate, which belongs to small windows in the internal courtyards and on the roofs of the neighbourhood. 'The two houses remain visually and spatially connected,' explain the architects.

Thus, the first living room houses a pink and blue capsule designed as a reading corner, a wall-mounted wardrobe and a small guest bathroom in shades of green.
Continuing, the dining room features a redesigned floor with the original 'cementina' raised in accordance with the new floor plan. This leaves room for monochrome resin to mark the transition to the kitchen, framed by a glazed passageway.
Two cobalt blue totems — jokingly called 'Scilla and Cariddi' — contain the fridge and oven and welcome us at the entrance.
At the end of the sequence, we find the bedroom, a fundamental space that includes the bed area and a cupboard that divides it from the private bathroom.

To underline the connection with the dense history of the old architecture, some original elements, such as floors, ceilings and doors, were recovered and reintegrated into the project and put into dialogue with new presences, plastics and chrome, 'in a vibrant amalgam that echoes Almodóvar's ironic, excessive, romantic and nostalgic cinema'. 
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For more informations visit Punto Zero website. 
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