Inside a Renovated Brutalist Apartment in Rome

A Brutalist-inspired condo within the suburbs of Rome in Tor de’ Cenci lately acquired an entire renovation by STUDIOTAMAT. Designed for a lawyer couple, the undertaking consisted of renovating the 120-square-meter condo, together with a coveted 40-square-meter terrace. The Casa Impolite residence overlooks the Castelporziano Nature Reserve providing each wooded and sea views, a perfect locale after years of residing in small residences within the coronary heart of town. Now, their area is stuffed with pure mild, unique character, and trendy conveniences.

“What guided us within the design was the need to reinforce the distinctive options of the distinctive terraced constructing, courting again to the Eighties, which homes the condo. We needed to revive fluidity to the areas, encourage the opening, and the invention of pre-existing supplies and particulars, on which to set a brand new imaginative and prescient,” says STUDIOTAMAT co-founder Tommaso Amato.

The principle residing space is designed very similar to a open plan loft with unfinished partitions and the help construction’s uncovered concrete visually connecting the areas.

Paired with the unique Brutalist particulars are quite a lot of tones, textures, and supplies that add as much as a visually attractive area. The roughness of the terracotta tiles on the oval island and concrete pillars are juxtaposed with the sleek Patagonia marble counter tops that join the 2.

A customized eating desk with a Shou sugi handled wooden prime rests on a black base and a shiny pink ceramic leg for a modern look.

A big, multifunctional birch wooden dice is constructed to cover the pantry, maintain coats, present storage, and home a TV.

A wall of perforated bricks separates the lounge and residential workplace permitting pure mild to cross via. A customized desk extends out from the built-in cabinets and is held up by a round pink wheel, complementing the eating desk’s leg just a few toes away. The wheel permits the desk to roll alongside on a monitor to a brand new place.

A pivoting door visually separates the general public areas from the sleeping space, which homes a predominant bed room with ensuite toilet, and a visitor room.

Within the main bed room, sliding ribbed glass doorways provide privateness to these within the toilet whereas permitting mild in.

The massive terrace options an out of doors kitchen, seating areas, eating area, and outside bathe, all of which profit from sundown views.

STUDIOTAMAT Photograph: Flavia Rossi

Images by Serena Eller Vainicher.

Caroline Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Design Milk. She has a BFA in images from SCAD and might often be discovered looking for classic wares, doing New York Instances crossword puzzles in pen, or transforming playlists on Spotify.