The two-room apartment, located in a typical Milanese railing building, has been redesigned as an intimate and welcoming refuge, optimizing the spaces and therefore the domestic functions. If Milan inspired the atmosphere, sober, soft but with bold shapes, the house stands out for the design solution developed.

The young designers have created a single element that fits into the existing architectural body, a single volume that contains the utility spaces and emphasizes the thresholds that delimit the rooms. A single element, the protagonist of the spaces, which divides the entrance, the living room, the bedroom and the bathroom, becoming a filter between public and private, between the house and the city.

The cusp shape, archetypical of Milan, emphasizes every threshold, giving rhythm to the passages between the rooms. The entrance, the hallway between bedroom and living room and the anteroom thus become moments of transition but also of containment, as well as tracing different degrees of separation between home and city. The result is a home that is as rigorous as it is muffled, as urban as it is timeless.

Like a piece of furniture that disappears into the walls, it becomes architecture: a single material envelope covered with resin in shades of an iridescent black makes the environments rigorous, collected and functional, creating gentle but vibrant reflections, in an evocative play of light and shadow.

The project is thus immersed in the spirit of Milan, interpreting an austere formal vision at the same time emphasizing the changes of scale, in a passage – with a sacred aura – of intimacy, between inside and outside, between private and public.