The apartment is adapted to the needs of a young couple and it is located on the first floor of a building of the 70's in Milan, not far from the historic city center. The original spatial organization did not allow a proper lighting of the living area, open towards the dimly lit inner courtyard.

The project, through minimal demolitions, aims to bring light into this central space, combining the living room and the entrance with a much brighter neighboring room, transformed into a music room. Boundaries between various ambiences of the house dissolves, to recreate a large hybrid space without interruption with exception for intimacy’s spaces that remain isolated by a door that opens on a long service corridor leading to bedrooms and bathrooms. The living area can occasionally double its size becoming a unique large environment merged with the music room through a system of doors integrated into the long wood paneling of the boiserie. The warm white boiserie marks and measures the space through a fixed module highlighted by the bas-relief, articulating visitor’s path from the entrance to the living room. This element also work as a storage furniture, hiding behind its numerous doors what is not appropriate to see: radiators, intercoms, various technical devices, jackets, shoes, family secrets… On the back wall, conversely, a long furniture in rosewood serves as showcase for memorabilia. The kitchen area, although open on the living room, differs for the flooring in milky white seeded instead of an olive wood parquet like the rest of the house. The existing toilet room has been divide into two smaller bathrooms of similar dimensions that differs slightly according to the habits of the clients. Once again, a scale in between the architectural and the furniture proper one has been chosen for its effectiveness in creating spaces that can easily adapts to daily

routines, helping the inhabitants in the complex and delicate game of domestic rituals.