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11ST

housing - small-apt

Ark Angelo

  • architect
  • Pavia, Italy
Project description

The project dosen't provide great changes on general configuration, but for a best spatial optimization it's necessary to demolish and rebuild the partition walls as shown in the added plans. Working on clean lines, removing interstitial little space here and there and designing homemade customised furnitures it has beeen possible to have large and optimized spaces as well as lots of storages. The customize furnitures in the living open space is white colored and designed in very simple style so to looks like the continum of the walls.
The internal apartment space is devided by dry wall partition system. It is a package defined by light layers (made up by elements in drywall and / or gypsum fiber) separated by an interposed an insulating element in rock wool.

By the main entrance is the open space of the living and the kitchen; right in front is a large homemade screen white colored and full height for all the related functions: owen, dishwasher, refrigerator as well space for the washing machine, the dryer and the iron and lots of storege. Close to the screen and to one of the two large windows is a table dark colored with sink and hob hidden just to looks like a dining table with stools.
On the opposite side of the kitchen is the conversation space with a couple of sofas and a coffee table in the middle; furthermore is a customize homemade screen for storages and shelf for books and a surface for the Tv. On the walls are a reproduction of the pictorical work by the italian artist Piero Guccione, tittled "Fratelli d'Italia" 2011 and two photos of the architect personal portfolio showing the harvesting salt at the Trapani's saline, Sicily.

Through the service entrance or at the left of the main entrance is the studio room with a sofa-bed, a large desck in oak planks covered and a custome furniture. A wardrobe and a bathroom are located to create an intermediate space between the studio room and the living area. Due to the bathroom have no window it will be necessary to instal a forced air ventilation system. The Studio room is well design for works activity as well as guest room.

The Night Area: in front of the main entrance is the passage to the night area through the screen furniture. The night area is composed by one double room on the left and the master bedroom with a walk-in closet on the right, each room have a related bathroom.

Led illumination at the ceiling as request by the client, like the Floos Circle 900 and 600 in the living.

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