Rome-based StudioTamat has used color, transparency and reflection to deliver a way of spaciousness to a small home within the coronary heart of the Italian capital.
Situated within the courtyard of a late-Nineteenth-century constructing on Viale di Trastevere, the 80-square-metre RA Home gives an city base for a pair who divide their time between addresses.
StudioTamat’s design brings collectively glass flooring, mirror ceilings, sculptural staircases and a stained glass facade.
The studio founders needed to protect the prevailing appeal of the “villino”, as they name it, whereas reflecting the vibrancy of the Trastevere neighbourhood.
“It was about amplifying spatial dynamism whereas holding a coherent language all through,” mentioned architect Matteo Soddu, who leads the studio alongside Tommaso Amato and Valentina Paiola.
The architects had been unable to substantiate the unique use of the house, though it’s rumoured to have been each a house for the practice station caretaker and an workplace for a neighborhood physician.
Their first transfer was to rethink the vertical association of the three-level property, to create a larger feeling of peak.
A part of the unique first-floor mezzanine was changed with a structural glass ground, creating a visible connection between the ground-floor residing areas and the bed room above.
A void on this ground creates a double-height lightwell, fronted by a brand new window, whereas mirrored ceilings create the phantasm of countless house.
A blue quantity extends between the 2 ranges, neatly offering kitchen and utility areas on the decrease storey and an en-suite rest room on the ground above.
A bookshelf doubles as a space-saving staircase to hyperlink these two flooring, whereas a spiral staircase leads as much as the second ground, which serves as a research or visitor room.
“Step one was subtraction – to provide respiratory room to those compact flooring,” mentioned Soddu.
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“We preserved the important construction and authentic terracotta flooring, however performed with pure volumes, mirrored surfaces and a robust materials thread,” he continued.
“The mirrored ceiling above the blue quantity creates a way of vertical infinity.”
A key transfer was the restoration of the art-nouveau-style stained glass, which brings shades of inexperienced, orange and yellow to an orangery on the entrance of the villino.
Newly launched supplies embody Verde Alpi marble, which options on each degree however most notably as a podium on the base of the chestnut wooden staircase.
Fluted glass gives partitions for the en-suite on the higher degree, whereas steel kitchen cupboards characteristic an ombre-effect fading from rose-gold to black.
A mixture of up to date and classic furnishings and lighting gives the ending touches, with highlights together with a concrete desk, classic Thonet chairs and a custom-made mattress.
Soddu, Amato and Paiola based StudioTamat in 2014. Different tasks by the studio embody the inside of Tre De Tutto, a restaurant within the south of Rome.
The images is by Serena Eller/Ellerstudio.
Undertaking credit
Architect: StudioTamatProject workforce: Tommaso Amato, Matteo Soddu, Valentina Paiola, Silvia D’AlessandroContractor: Ediltel B
