Villa MS is a minimal house positioned in Bergamo, Italy, designed by Hub Design. Within the coronary heart of a Nineteen Fifties constructing, restrained by the constraints of preservation laws, lies a design mission that defies conference. Tasked with creating a house that encourages communal residing and communication for a younger household of 5, the designers discovered inspiration within the constructing’s unique double-height house. As soon as occupied by a monumental staircase, this house now serves because the fulcrum of the house, connecting the residing areas on the bottom ground, the grasp areas on the primary ground, and the youngsters’s widespread space on the second ground. The result’s a seamless circulation that facilitates household interplay whereas preserving a way of privateness and private house. However the design workforce didn’t cease there.
The mission additionally included an entire redesign of the house’s exterior areas, creating two distinct areas: a “public” entrance backyard seen from the road and missed by the residing areas, and a “personal” backyard positioned behind the home, missed by the double-height house and kitchen. These two gardens are separated by a concrete partition that penetrates the curved quantity of the double-height house, defining each entry to the home and the separation between the private and non-private areas. “We have been challenged by the constraints of the constructing’s preservation necessities, however we noticed that as a chance to create one thing actually distinctive,” says the lead designer.
“By embracing the present construction and incorporating the household’s need for communal residing, we have been in a position to create a minimalist design that maximizes each performance and aesthetic enchantment.” The ensuing design is a surprising instance of minimalist design that emphasizes the significance of communal residing whereas preserving privateness and private house. It’s a house that really displays the wants and wishes of the household who lives there, and a testomony to the ability of inventive problem-solving on the planet of structure and inside design.
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