“The residence includes an interconnected series of galleries, workspaces, formal and informal zones for entertainment, areas for living, dining, recreation, bedrooms and bathrooms, arranged in a continuum from outside to inside, public to private, the ground floor to the upper level,” the architect explains.
“The place was built as a single-family home in 1903, and then transformed into an apartment building with nine housing units. Today it returns to its original spirit, though we have inserted finishes and details with children in mind, creating a soft, organic habitat ready to adapt to changes over the short-medium term, depending on the changing needs of the younger users.”
In short, the past makes way for the future, and tradition makes way for innovation. In the flexibility of the construction, where the living areas have pale floors in white Sivec marble on the first levels and in the bedroom zones with bathrooms, the red thread is a dramatic ribbon staircase, an uninterrupted sequence of white marble slabs supported by a curved central bar to form an evocative spiral.