The original space was about 50 sqm.

The architects studied its physiology and materiality, trying to understand all the infinite small changes that each inhabitant made in less than a century.

For example, the shared heating pipes are positioned in the middle of the house, instead of along the perimeter.

They intended to appreciate the details that an economic house could offer to the low middle-class bourgeoisie, as the terrazzo floors and the boiserie of the windows. What yesterday was economic is today sophisticated and precious.

(a mixture of cement and marble scraps, not being able to afford real marble floors)

With wooden double darkening system, internal and external shutters.

The new project wanted to maintain the original intention and some traces of the previous inhabitants, such as the arch between the entrance and the living area.

A first attempt to open the spaces between each others.

But what the original project offers is precisely the space, in its different dimensions, the high ceilings, the long corridor, the large rooms, areas that we are no longer used to.

Comparing with the surfaces designed nowadays to reach the minimum dimensions in an economic context.

The space, in fact, is the object of the greatest transformation and so the new project folds the old one without breaking it, without canceling it completely.

The extreme depth of the entrance corridor makes it possible to equip the house with a storage / exhibition space, to store clothes or objects and show the large railway models.

The space, which is already there with all its qualities, is released and re-structured with light elements, the furniture. These pieces, like large objects, create new environments, no longer as separate spaces but as nuances of space.

Small accidents, encountered during the liberation of space, become a reason to play with space itself, to transform accidents into opportunities.

The result is a sum of possible actions, which reset the house from time to time, transforming it into a light device, easily adapting to changing needs of its inhabitants.