The project is developed inside a building in the heart of the San Salvario district in Turin. It is a late nineteenth- century building characterized by load-bearing walls, vaults and ceiling coffers, which in the redevelopment project remain the protagonists ofthe newenvironments.
Site | TORINO (IT)
Schedule | 2021
Surface | 350 sqm
Client | Private
Tipology| Renovation
Project | blaarchitettura
Project Team | Alberto Lessan, Jacopo Bracco, Davide Minervini (Job Capitan), Alp Arda
Thermal Consultant | Zeb Studio
Construction | Cobuilt Srl.
Nord Clima s.r.l.
Model + owner | Tina Mogavero
Photo credits: ©beppe giardino
The concept involves hybridizing each environment through the use of a volume with a specific function and a color for its definition. It was decided to design the living within these spaces as a museum itinerary in which we are not limited only to observing the works of art but also to use them for the function for which they were intended.
The entrance is presented as a welcoming place where the space is defined by a ceiling vault, a new “Venetian terrazzo” floor made in a contemporary key and an area intended for wardrobe and shoe rack designed to amaze those who enter this environment. The predominant color is brick which is used on the floor, on the cylindrical pouf and on the two furniture volumes (shoe rack and wardrobe). An antiqued mirror background amplifies the spaces and creates a filter between old and new.
Immediately near the entrance is the studio, renovated only in the white color of the original paneling and in the use of a cold shade as a decoration for the walls. Also, from the entrance that previously led to a long blind corridor, you can now access both the living room and the dining room. The dining room and the adjoining kitchen are characterized by a large sage-colored frame that has a spatial function of apparent subdivision of the spaces with the central corridor. As in our other projects, also in this case, to define two different environments, we preferred to the classic wall, the use of an element that, although totally transparent, manages to give each space its autonomy. From the dining room, you can access the living room through a large opening. The environment was left as it was found.
Parquet floors, fireplace and wooden coffered ceiling. The design hybridization involves the insertion of two desaturated yellow volumes with the function of bar / sideboard and TV cabinet. The sharp and sharp shapes fit into the environment in order to rejuvenate the previous space and continuing the “sense-functional” path of the project. A full-height birch door divides the living area from the sleeping area. This subdivision also defines the late nineteenth-century building by an extension whose structure is in reinforced concrete. Passing it you find yourself in a long corridor of very light color with a very dark ceiling. The effect is that of being in an in-between, timeless area. The access doors to the children’s rooms and the bathroom are deliberately left in their original state as the concrete pillars are cleaned of plaster and left rough.
A long custom- made wardrobe is divided into several doors, some of which are access to the master bedroom and the spa. The two children’s rooms are conceived as a single space on different heights, connected by a portal that can open or close to make the rooms more autonomous. A large blue volume is a wardrobe on one side and a storage room for games on the other, accessible via the netted mezzanine. Below it, in white, there is another volume that also functions as a wardrobe. The study spaces are designed on the one hand as a single “cottage” volume that houses the bed and desk and on the other by a corner volume. Both made of wood heat the surrounding environment. Two long red HEA beams divide the space in height, creating an underlying area for the bed and the upper portion for relaxation and play on the mezzanine net.
A volume also red and a bench containing games on wheels. The service bathroom is divided into three parts to create a cupboard sink area, a shower area with black frames and transparent glass and a sanitary area. Amaranth and face powder are the colors that define the environment. The master bedroom is designed around a pink volume with the walk-in closet on one side and the headboard on the other. The rest of the room is left in its original state with late nineteenth- century parquet floors and plaster drawers. From this room (but also from the corridor) you enter through a fully glazed pivot door to the Spa. Thanks to a volume mirrored on three sides with the function of petineuse, the environment merges into a series of points of view and perspectives making you immerse those who experience space in a dreamlike reality between reality and imaginary.
