Don Bosco attic
Team
Pietro Canova, Martina Dal Pont
Categories
Interior design
Timeline
2018
Location
Padua, Italy
Typology
Residential, restoration
A private client, unsure about the options that her old-looking apartment had, asked to develop a new interior design. The apartment is located in a suburban area of Padua city and occupies a quarter of the last two floors of a five-storey building. One of the main features is the big terrace overlooking the countryside placed on the south and connected to the living room. There are many singular aspects that we took into consideration for this design, and most of them were related to the specific tastes and habits of the owners. The previous apartment had a traditional plan, with corridors, small rooms, and a neat division of the spaces. The owners would rather have a big open space instead of these small rooms, and the priority was to increase the size of the living room and connect it better with the covered balcony. Another important problem of the previous configuration was the lack of storage space that have forced the client into unusual and temporary solutions during the last years.
Common and private space
The layout of the first floor has been changed to an open-space plan, with a division of the kitchen
area from the living area, highlighted by different materials. To have a cleaner view from the living room, one can fully close the kitchen. The light stair is a division mark between kitchen and living area but is designed to be as minimal as possible, maximizing the amount of natural light coming inside both spaces. The chosen furniture is playing with the contrast between the two main colors, white and dark gray, and to more saturated and vivid ones.
We can access the second floor thanks to the central metal stair that is connecting both the kitchen and the living room to a family room intended as an art studio or recreation room.
The central disposition of the furniture’s main elements, such as the sofa on the first floor and the beds on the second, creates different circulation paths with a more flexible space.
The floors of the connecting spaces and of the kitchen will be realized in a solid terrazzo finish.
The storage problems for the first floor have been solved thanks to a full- height wall cabinet that not only acts as a wardrobe, but also hides inside the heating and air ventilation system.