APARTMENT NN

APARTMENT NN is the project for an apartment, located in Brescia’s historic centre, in an early 20th century building.

The square-shaped layout, with openings on each side, organises the living areas (kitchen, dining room, living room, bedrooms, and bathrooms) around a large central void, conceived as a place that divides but at the same time connects.

This void becomes an element of spatial and temporal transition that generates expectation. It is a physical and climatic threshold between one room and another. It is a place of penumbra and promise of light.

Moving from the living area to the sleeping one, and then to the bathrooms and vice versa, through the void, defines the houses’ rituals of living.

In APARTMENT NN all the infrastructures at the service of the living are contained within a long spine equipped in oak wood that crosses the apartment tangentially to the void.

Around the entire perimeter of the apartment, a membrane of long linen curtains has been designed to screen the sunlight, creating a suspended atmosphere while also ensuring privacy from the surrounding buildings.