apartment refurbishment in venice
Project Theme: Residential | Restoration
Project Year: 2020
Location: Venice, San Polo
Client: private
Building Dimension: 70 Sqm
Design: Barman architects
Project Team: Roberta Bartolone, Giulio Mangano
Collaborators: Carlo Baldin, Ana Laura Solano Rodriguez
Status: Design completed
OUR TASK
The client's request aimed to improve the functionality and usability of the house spaces with the design of a new service room.
The construction of a bathroom provided the opportunity for grafting a new volume, isolated and easily identifiable compared to the context in which it is inserted.
the context
The new bathroom emerges for shape and material, as the primary visual element of the space and seeks a dialogue with the "barbacani", the walls, the stone lintels, the marmorino surfaces and the iron beams, pre-existing elements in the apartment.
THE PROJECT
The new bathroom emerges for shape and material, as the primary visual element of the space and seeks a dialogue with the "barbacani", the walls, the stone lintels, the marmorino surfaces and the iron beams, pre-existing elements in the apartment.
volume
The volume with a trapezoidal plan and a truncated pyramid roof appears as a structurally independent block with tubular and metal carpentry profiles.
The shape is designed for the best volume adaptation into the space about the constructive elements of the previous restoration and to the original materials of the pre-nineteenth-century factory.
materials
All the new architectural elements are designed to generate meaningful relationships between the sight of what exists and what is added.
The external cladding of the new bathroom, in brass-colored metallic laminate, reflects the natural and artificial light of the room.
FURNITURE
The open walk-in closet close to the new volume is made of wood with brass elements and is articulated in such a way as to take full advantage of the generous internal heights of the room. The sartorial design for a service area, such as the bathroom, demonstrates that the intervention on the antique can and should be investigated, even on the occasion of minimal functional adjustments, as a project occasion.
