Hang Out Room

View of staircase providing access to the underground game room.

Project Details

• Project Name: Hang Out Room
• Client: Private
• Project Type: Interior Design
• Principal Designer: Giancarlo Zucca & Marco Zummo
• Design Team: Nicola Bagetta, Marco Muratore
• Year of commencement of project: 2005
• Year of completion of project: 2006
• Location of site: Moncalieri, Torino, Italy
• Built-up Area: 120 square meters
• Cost of Execution: Euros 100,000

Above: A partition in maple wood volume organizes the various elements and plants. Below: Detail of the entrance with a little stone garden.

The Building

The Hang Out Room is an underground game room designed in a space originally conceived as an electrical plant room.

The client required a recreational space used for relaxation, gaming and meetings.

Above: The intersection between the rest-area and the bright expository volume. Below: View of the steel plate rising to define the web area in the room.

The design evolved from a random building plan utilizing flexible materials that do not require rigorous planning.

The design uses the functions as its primary generator bringing them together in a singular space.

View of the billiard area with its structural formwork revealed by strategic lighting.

Furniture made of maple wood, closets, stands and boxes cross the space lengthwise.

Hubs and peaks created by a fold in the linear cabinets mark the entry area.

A steel plate emerges from the floor of the vestibule thus created, emphasizing the perimeter and looping into another cabinet.

Lighting is extensively used to accentuate the space and elements within it.

The metal shadows rearrange and order the pillars. Lighting is employed strategically to expose the false structure.

Credits

• Text by Alberto Viglione, Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs by Alvin Crea, Courtesy of the architect
• Compiled and edited by Mitesh Saraf