House Colle Oppio is a chic apartment located in Rome, Italy, redesigned in 2022 by Puntozero Architetti.

Description
The apartment was designed as a buen retiro for a French-Italian couple living between Brussels, Rome, and France.
The apartment is located in an early twentieth-century building and had a longitudinal development plan, with an almost barycentric entrance on the long side, a sequence of rooms parallel to each other with all exterior views of the Oppio district.
“A ‘traditional’ house in which we played with the flows and glimpses of the living area, creating a continuity between the soft living area, the dining area and the kitchen put in communication with each other by openings, passages, raised platforms ” add the architects. The design included a large representative living area and a neighboring studio for Roman workdays; a central volume in the corner bay of the house screens the kitchen from the dining room and houses the small service bathroom, creating a roundabout of flows that makes the space dynamic. Finally, on the opposite side, the large bedroom and master bathroom conceived as a bath, where a “dressing table” cabinet divides and screens the large shower pod all clad in marble.
Running through the entire house is a low bench that passes under the many windows, and embraces the entire living space, then the kitchen and dining room : a red thread in the design that holds the sequenc...