Minimal, white finishes emphasise the geometric form of this home in Melegnano, Italy, designed by local practice Form_A to reference the neighbouring historic buildings.
Named Casa SM, the two-storey, two-bedroom home creates a new street corner between two existing building in the Milanese town.
The house forms a new street corner
"The proposed intervention reconstrues the conditions of the context, reinterpreting its alignments and visual collimations," described the studio.
"[It establishes] itself as an identifying element that can communicate with the surrounding urban space, and establish itself as a pivotal element in the resolution of a portion of urban fabric that has not been resolved yet."
Form_A created the house as a reinterpretation of courtyard villas Taking cues from the scale and design language of the town's historic urban fabric, Milan-based Form_A aimed to create a contemporary interpretation of a typical courtyard villa, organising the home around a double-height living space.
On the ground floor, the home faces the street with a plain, rendered exterior, with a cut-out in its eastern edge providing a sheltered entrance space off a narrow alleyway.
The white interior was designed to highlight the home's geometric form
The entrance leads into a large kitchen and dining area alongside a double-height living space at the northern end of the home, which can be visible or closed to the adjacent street with a run of white curtains.
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