Inner City Apartment Renovation

View of bedroom suspended over the main space.

Project Details

• Project Name: Inner City Apartment Renovation
• Client: Andrea Buono
• Project Type: Interior design
• Principal Designer: Antonio Stefano Cibelli, Piero Guadagno
• Design Team: Cibelli + Guadagno Architetti Associati
• Contractors: Giuseppe Tortorella Building Construction
• Electricals: Vittorio Curci Electrical System
• Plumbing: Giovanni Vitale Water Systems
• Lighting: Lello Danese Lighting support, Via Bizzuno Lighting System
• Year of commencement of project: 2001
• Year of completion of project: 2002
• Location of site: Troia, Italy

View of the main space looking towards the entrance.

The Building

The original apartment consisted of two main rooms with feigned cross-vault ceilings.

A complex wooden truss with brickwork dating back to the second half of the 18^th century was discovered during renovation.

Wooden truss with brickwork (18^th century).

This truss thus became the pivot of the new design, restored and used to suspend a platform accommodating the bedroom in the renovated space.

View of the open planned main space of the house.

On the ground floor a living room was created with the kitchen and bathroom.

The design and materials focus on a few essential but marked elements which allow an immediate perspective of the space and its purposes as well as enhance the structure of the exposed wooden roof.

Inner City Apartment Renovation - Building Drawings [opens in a pop-up window - 40kb image]

Credits

• Text by Lara Morello, Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs by Antonio Stefano Cibelli, Courtesy of the architect
• Compiled and edited by Mitesh Saraf