CASA ROSPIGLIOSI, a project by studio.traccia

Studio.traccia is a Milan based studio, founded in 2020 by Claudia Orsetti and Luigi Olivieri. Both have worked for over 10 years around the world, gaining different experiences in a series of international studios such as SANAA, Heatherwick Studio, Tomas Saraceno and UNstudio. Claudia and Luigi works at the intersection of many worlds, using always as a starting point contemporaneity which they try to digest, communicate or react to it through architecture, installations, photography, design, but also the curation and organization of talks and events.

One of studio.traccia‘s recent projects is Casa Rospigliosi, located in a 1950s residence, surrounded by a park in San Siro district, on the edge of the urban fabric of Milan, the complex reflects the urbanity of the city and the vastness of the rural spaces.

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To echo the stadium, the building reveals its concrete structure on the ground floor, which is however denied inside the apartments, under layers of masonry and plaster. For the renovation project, which also aimed at connecting two apartments, the studio decided to intervene by exposing the building structure, thus creating a strong identity to the space.

The large space of the living room is freed up and becomes the opportunity to reconnect the two units, keeping the sleeping area in the west side of the house basically unchanged, while concentrating the interventions in the east area. The traces of the original structure re-emerged in the new living space, with the 3 concrete columns, revealing a brutalist urban soul.

The functionalist aspect of these H-shaped pillars, originally used to host ducts, was also restored, leaving electrical and heating ducts visible. The vertical rhythm of the columns marking the space is superimposed with the horizontal one of the ceiling, which defines the kitchen area with a change of height and color.

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The spatial reorganization of the entire apartment happens through the definition of a functional spine in the center of the house, in which the bathrooms, the entrance, the closet are organized. However, full height passages where sliding or pivoting doors connect or separate public and private spaces, alter the perception of this block, making it disappear.

A series of bespoke iron furniture was designed between the pillars and within the niches, to bring the brutalist identity of the house even to unexpected areas, such as the bedroom. The new concrete floor becomes the reconnecting element throughout the entire apartment; inlays in tinted micro-cement, that draws inspiration from the Lombard tradition, but are translated in a contemporary key, emphasize specific spacess.

The result is a domestic space characterized by a strong identity, with a series of original and contemporary elements. To find out more about the project, you can visit the studio.traccia website and follow them on Instagram!

Photography by Simone Bossi

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