mustard, powder blue, wood and wallpaper, and the job is done
The work overcomes the original fragmentation through a system of bespoke furnishings and technical false ceilings that integrate services and indirect lighting, enhancing decorative materials and contemporary colours.
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There are no walls, only furnishings or demountable walls. And so the space is more flexible. Casa Origami starts from a challenge: an L-shaped flat with a very long entrance corridor and three windows on a single aspect, fragmented and uneven. The answer is to remove the masonry — except for the bathroom cores — and entrust the division of the rooms to the furnishings. The blue living-room wall too is in a timber balloon frame, with a continuous ceramic-parquet floor and the services in the false ceiling. The Jannelli e Volpi wallpaper, the powder-blue enamel and the azulejos complete the picture.
Challenge. This flat was a real challenge: the particular L shape, with a very long entrance corridor and 3 windows on a single aspect and very close together. The space was enormously fragmented and uneven, very hard to rethink by today’s standards.
Furnishing. The furnishings divide the space. No masonry walls were built, except for the bathroom cores. The blue living-room wall too is made in a timber balloon frame, with the continuous floor beneath and the services all running through the false ceiling. This way the space is flexible over time, and the geometry of the spaces variable.
On the ground. The floor is in ceramic parquet, an intelligent material that combines durability with aesthetic appeal.
False ceilings. The passage of part of the air-conditioning systems and some electrical risers required the creation of plasterboard false ceilings. To enhance some wallpaper walls, as in the entrance, and as the lighting system of the living room, grooves were created for indirect lighting.
Materials. Many materials were used in combination. For the building finishes, the ceramic-parquet floor, common to the whole flat, is paired with ceramics with strong geometric motifs as cladding for bathrooms and kitchen, the Azulejos by Mutina, and the Shades and Trame by Ceramiche Lea. For the bespoke furnishing, white melamine panels were mainly used, mixed with wooden and yellow panels. The powder blue is a water-based enamel used to paint a wall that closes off the bathrooms and a separate room.
Details. The Jannelli e Volpi wallpaper takes centre stage on the home’s two main free walls, the entrance and the bedroom. The wardrobe handles are in rubber, by Pamar. The strong aesthetic value of the kitchen is underlined by the Elica extractor hood, which looks like a decorative light.
