NOS Private Residence

View of the main living space in the sitting area..

Project details

• Project Name: NOS Private Residence
• Location of Site: Rome, Italy
• Design Team: Massimo Giovannetti
• Project Type: Residential design
• Client: Private
• Built-up Area: 140 sq. mt.
• Date of completion: December 2007

View of the kitchen entrance with diffuse lighting from the false ceiling.

Words from the architect

The apartment was designed to provide sober and elegant spaces with special regard to the existing layout configuration which couldn't be missed out. Thus both the original context as well as the interests of the client, emerged as the first generators of the design.

The apartment entrance from the main living space.

The particular choice of a range of bright colours and materials emphasizes the appreciation of the natural light with special regard about the use of bright colors palette and materials.

The sitting room false ceiling backlit with neon lights.

Materials include: Blank white walls, american maple wooden floors for common areas and bedrooms, yellow, grey and beige tile cladding for bathrooms and kitchen applications are the main elements employed for the apartment.

View of the carved false ceiling with kitchen sliding door.

Each of the 140 square meters of the interior spaces was examined and distributed to meet the requirement for a large sitting room with a dining area, a kitchen, two childrens' rooms with a bathroom, one bedroom with a master bathroom.

Detail view of the bathroom.

In the way to obtain a continuous and at the same time private setting, the contemporary kitchen has been designed as a part of the immediate living space context. The big sliding door provides a visual link with the sitting room, while the apartment corridor acts like a separated distribution axis for the rooms spaces.

Detail view of the master bathroom.

The semi-translucent glass slabs are used throughout to create random cut-shapes on the walls allowing penetration of natural and artificial light, as well as the carved false ceiling in the sitting room with shifting sharp geometries spreading light from above.

The corridor.

View of the anteroom.

Credits

• Text: Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs: Courtesy of the architect