V21 House by Giovanni Mensi
Located in Brescia, Italy, this modern apartment mixing western and eastern elements has been recently redesigned by Giovanni Mensi.
Description
The project deals with an urban residential renovation in an ex-industrial complex, close to Brescia city center.
The overall idea of this interior design is to play with a few iconic pieces of furniture to give priority to shapes, in a system of empty spaces. The owners of the apartment, the architect who designed it and a Chinese language teacher, mixed together their own personal styles letting western and eastern elements coexist together: iconic Italian design and Chinese style furnishings.
In the past, the apartment was part of an old textile factory originally designed on one high level, along three squared aligned bays. Used as storage, it was surrounded by a heterogeneous group of buildings facing a central green courtyard. During a first renovation, a slab supported by heb beams was interposed inside the whole space in order to create two floors. Moreover, the wooden roof was renewed. The entrance of the new apartment is on the ground floor together with a bathroom, one bedroom and a walk-in wardrobe. A light metal staircase brings to the first floor which is a kind of high attic, with three bays one next to the other. As a matter of fact, the living room and the kitchen are like a big living open space area, divided by customized, glass-corten-steel sliding doors. No matter they are opened or closed, ...
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