Origami Lovely

This apartment is not to eccentric. It obviously doesn't have anyone living in it and for me personally with 2 dogs and being 4 of 5 sides clumsy, all the super sleek interiors of this place I kinda like but are not really that suitable for me or anyone around me.

It doesn't stop me looking though. This very pretty apartment in one of Rome's oldest neighborhoods has simply been modernised by adding faceted ceilings and a cuties boxy wooden staircase.

Like most residence in higgledy pigldy buildings in any European city the designers were tasked with rationalising an incongruous interior created by numerous extensions and renovations, but were bound by strict planning laws governing the historic architectural fabric. The transformation of the two top floors of a freestanding house in Colle Oppio is a project that, as is often the case working with the ancient fabric of Rome, involved numerous complex factors.

The objective was simply to produce a spatially coherent while trying enhancing aspects of the house. Which sounds simple enough but as the designers explain, "Not only was it a situation that was functionally and spatially compromised, but added to this were the difficulties related to intervening architecturally in a city where the law tends to protect pre-existing elements that are easier to control, thus unfortunately often ignoring aspects of quality that might be improved upon,"

The apartment, measures a little over 200 msq and is distributed over three levels; two main floors and a mezzanine, the result of numerous interventions that had been carried out in a disorderly and incoherent manner over the last twenty years. The designers had to create a clever solution to the mash up of the interior.

A separate kitchen and dining room is located on the main floor, alongside a pair of bedrooms with en suite bathrooms. The interior is arranged around a double-height living room, above which the architects have installed a system of suspended ceilings with angular facets, intended to emphasise the joints of the roof while in the building's turret, this top floor now functions as a study room and opens out to rooftop balconies on two sides. The designers where keen to presence of several outside spaces, which, although small, are on different levels and provide splendid views of the city.

The main structural operations dictated the organization of the house: the problem of circulation and the 300 years of peace meal structural elements. I feel like the designers have over some these obstacles well. Integrating a large body of wood for the internal staircase to connect the various levels and all the cupboard and storage space necessary for the easy running of a house. The homogenisation of the ceilings encompasses the origami folds deflect from the irrational and disorganised load-bearing elements.

Actually, on second thoughts my dogs would look really lovely in this photography.