Mynt Merano Rooms transforms the unused higher flooring of a historic home in Merano, Italy, into 5 vacation residences. Designed by DEAR studio in 2024, the B&B locations a shared courtyard on the middle of the mission, utilizing daylight, mountain views, full-height glazing, and mint-green purposeful volumes to offer every area a definite but related character whereas preserving the constructing’s present spatial character.
About Mynt Merano Rooms
Mynt Merano Rooms brings 5 vacation residences into the long-unused higher flooring of a historic home in Merano, Italy. Designed by DEAR studio in 2024, the mission replaces the uninhabitable constructions with new exposed-concrete slabs whose OSB formwork texture stays seen. The outcome extends the lifetime of the constructing with out disguising the excellence between its historic character and up to date intervention.
The strongest organizing transfer is the central courtyard. It attracts pure mild deep into the constructing, offers the residences a shared level of reference, and frames views towards the encircling mountains. Ground-to-ceiling glazing on three sides makes the perimeters of the residences really feel open, whereas a double-layer curtain system permits the rooms to maneuver between transparency, privateness, and full blackout.
A Courtyard on the Middle
Seen from above, the shared exterior is organized as a darkish gravel backyard with planted bushes and a sequence of round timber decks. The decks create small outside settings for tables and chairs, seen via the black-framed glazed elevations. Quite than functioning as an remoted view, the open middle stays in sight throughout the constructing, linking the residences via daylight, planting, and repeated outlooks. On the prime flooring, a beneficiant terrace carries that connection outward, overlooking the town and mountain panorama.
Constructed-Ins Outline the Interiors
Every residence accommodates a definite mint-green quantity that holds purposeful components and defines the encircling area. Within the kitchen views, the colour extends throughout full-height cabinetry, counter tops, and a recessed area of interest, turning storage and preparation areas right into a steady built-in aircraft. Elsewhere, the mint-green component frames a black rectangular opening beside the dwelling space. Its steady face leaves the eating and sitting areas visually open, whereas a light-weight wooden wall supplies a hotter counterpoint in a single residence.
Uncovered Slabs Carry a Development Hint
The brand new flooring do greater than exchange the higher ranges: their tough imprint makes the constructing course of legible within the completed rooms. Within the interiors, that floor meets pale flooring, mild wooden cabinetry, black steel frames, and gentle grey upholstery. The stairwell continues the distinction: grey steps and darkish railings sit beneath a glazed roof punctuated by spherical pendant lights.
Arched Openings Recast the High Ground
The uppermost residence takes the type of a shiny, double-height loft with a twin orientation. Tall arched home windows reinterpret the arcades on the flooring beneath, linking the brand new work to the historic constructing via a well-recognized proportion quite than copying the older openings. They open onto a beneficiant terrace overlooking the town and the encircling mountains. At nightfall, the glazed higher quantity reads as a luminous layer above the planted middle, making the connection between the brand new residences and the historic home seen from throughout the courtyard.
Pictures by Hannes Niederkofler
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