The existing traces — the profiles of the doors, the plasterwork, the timber flooring, the original colour resurfaced beneath layers of paint — became the materials to preserve, reinterpret and extend within a period apartment on historic Via Leoncavallo.
In its dark and narrow entrance, a new opening, mirroring the existing one and reproducing its original profiles, introduces light and new views towards the living room.
The long corridor, which once distributed the rooms without hierarchy, has been redesigned through a new pattern that runs along its entire length and extends into the rooms where the original flooring was missing, continuing the visual and material continuity of the house. A new continuous pattern characterizes the entire length of the corridor, extending into the spaces where the original flooring is missing.
The rediscovered colour returns to the walls, resurfacing as part of the new.
The house now reveals itself gradually as a place of intimacy, where spaces are never fully disclosed but open onto one another in a kaleidoscopic sequence, multiplying perceptions and possibilities of the gaze. The new is woven into the existing, extending the traces of the house and creating a more natural way of inhabiting it.
