Residential

Location: Zoagli (GE), Italy

Year: 2021

Status: Completed

Size: 250 sqm

Photography: Matteo Brancali

Collaborators: Arch. Corrado Bigoni

Marina di Bardi

Overlooking the Ligurian sea, this 1960s house has been transformed into a contemporary retreat where architecture and landscape flow seamlessly into one another. Light-filled interiors, restored original details, and newly reconfigured spaces open directly toward the horizon, creating a home that breathes with its surroundings and celebrates the Mediterranean way of living.

The renovation concerns an apartment located in a 1930s building, characterized by high ceilings but lacking decorative elements. The original layout, with excessive circulation space and no clear hierarchy, was reimagined to create more fluid and defined environments.
Two former bedrooms and part of the corridor were merged to form a spacious living area with an open kitchen near the entrance. The double east-west exposure ensures natural light throughout the day and good ventilation during the warmer months.
The sleeping area was preserved at the rear of the apartment: a small blue hallway leads to two generously sized bedrooms and a master bathroom, obtained by reorganizing the previous connective space.
The original parquet flooring was preserved in the bedrooms and part of the living room, while neutral-toned porcelain stoneware was used in the kitchen and bathrooms due to technical and plumbing needs. A suspended ceiling volume runs along the axis of the former corridor, concealing the systems while preserving a trace of the original distribution layout.