DML
apartment

# Residential

Location: Milano, Italy
Client: Private
Status: Built – 2021, 2022
Type: Apartment renovation
Surface: 110 sqm
Design team: biroarchitetti 

Ph: Simone Furiosi

The project overturns the original layout of the apartment, traditionally organized around a central corridor with rooms arranged on either side, in order to restore spatial fluidity and establish a more intense relationship with natural light and the urban landscape. The living area is therefore expanded and reinterpreted as the true heart of the home: a generous open-plan living space with an open kitchen, oriented towards the inner courtyard, benefiting from southern exposure and opening onto a privileged view of Milan’s skyline, from the Duomo to the vertical architectures of CityLife, and across the intricate pattern of the city’s rooftops.

The reconfiguration of the spaces does not, however, compromise the private realm. The apartment accommodates three bedrooms, including a master suite with a walk-through wardrobe and an en-suite bathroom, as well as two bedrooms designed for the children, conceived as intimate and functional spaces.
The design language is expressed through a measured elegance, articulated by authentic materials and carefully calibrated colour palettes, where sobriety is balanced by more assertive chromatic accents. Emblematic in this respect is the entrance “box”, defined by a terracotta hue and bespoke pleated wood cabinetry, with a semi-arched passage marking the transition into the living area.
The kitchen, open to the living space, is visually separated from the seating area by a central island conceived as a large monolithic volume in anthracite-grey stone. This material is echoed in the kitchen backsplash, reinforcing the material continuity and identity of the space.
The living room is completed by a curated selection of iconic 1970s design pieces, which lend the interior a refined and timeless modernist character, ranging from the Sesann sofa by Gianfranco Frattini for Tacchini to the Petite Potence wall lamp by Jean Prouvé for Vitra.

The bathrooms are defined by a refined combination of materials, where terrazzo, glossy glazed tiles and solid walnut furnishings come together to create balanced spaces, fully coherent with the overall design approach.

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