Pomponazzi reworks an condo in Milan, Italy, by RAAR—Radicioni Architetto, returning order and identification to a house inside a sublime Nineteen Thirties constructing. Designed in 2024, the renovation begins with the unique cement tile flooring, utilizing their 20×20 cm (7.9×7.9 in) module to recalibrate rooms, openings, and shade throughout the inside.
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About Pomponazzi
The challenge begins with the intention of restoring coherence and identification to an condo in a sublime Nineteen Thirties constructing in Milan. Its defining aspect was the unique cement tile flooring, compromised over time by a compelled subdivision of the rooms pushed by the necessity to flip the property into an income-producing asset.
The core thought is expressed clearly within the plan of demolitions and new building. Partitions that lower by the cement tile carpets had been eliminated, and from that transfer a exact ordering precept took form.
The 20×20 cm (7.9×7.9 in) dimension of the unique tiles turned the bottom module for a brand new design grid, used to recalibrate the up to date rooms. The objective was twofold: to return the adorned flooring to the middle of the challenge and, on the identical time, to rebuild a way of concord all through the house by a quiet rhythm that informs each the idea and the drawing.
As a result of the condo may depend on unique flooring with such a robust presence, the work centered on restoring a Nineteen Thirties architectural language by a reinterpretation of the inside envelope. Right here, that envelope takes on an energetic position: not a easy background, however the reference construction for the insertion of latest components.
The restoration of the inner shutters and sliding louvers, paired with new handcrafted wooden home windows adorned on website, establishes materials and chromatic continuity with the wall surfaces, all handled in a uniform plaster tone. The outcome removes the visible separation between building components and end.
The doorways, additionally unique to the interval, had been chosen from builders’ salvage yards and reintroduced into the condo with stylistic consistency. Their presence reinforces the continuity of the entire relatively than studying as remoted historic fragments.
The entry works virtually like a theatrical scrim. From right here, the cement tile carpets of the completely different rooms seem without delay, making the fabric and chromatic complexity of the inside instantly legible.
The challenge organizes a unified dwelling space whose compositional heart is an outfitted wall that acts as a diaphragm between kitchen and sitting room, redefining useful boundaries with out interrupting spatial continuity. The wall works by subtraction: it marks limits with out closing them, organizes the kitchen’s storage components with out placing all the pieces on view, and turns into a quiet presence that helps the general stability of the condo.
Arched openings develop into gadgets of measure. They emphasize the peak of the rooms, draw perspective axes, lengthen the grout traces, and introduce surprising depth.
The colours, sampled room by room from the present cement tiles, reinforce the concept of the house as a sequence of architectural containers, every with its personal chromatic identification but nonetheless coherent with the entire.
Pictures by Anna Positano
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