The renovation of an apartment, located in a seventeenth-century Roman building, is transformed into a refined play of chromatic and material contrasts aimed at the most charming elegance.
In the Monti district of Rome, Studio Punto Zero has revolutionized a home located in a historic 17th-century building, renovating the rooms thanks to a real conservative intervention that has enhanced the original elements, transporting them into a contemporary dimension of pure design.
The result is Casa Volver, a project that brings together an important historical architecture with the most current vision of furniture and décor. Inside, the romantic and nostalgic, ironic and at times elegantly excessive atmosphere of Pedro Almodóvar’s cinema echoes like a muse. A new character in an ancient dimension, capable of surprising with its (apparent) très chic simplicity and capable of highlighting the careful restoration of the spaces on which the apartment is modeled.
The refined encounter between ancient and modern tells the conceptual soul of Casa Volver, a seventeenth-century residence made contemporary by a careful restoration that has preserved its original charm.
Upon entering, you can immediately admire the succession of different rooms, where the different original cementine floors stand out, in contrast with the white walls and the seventeenth-century wooden ceilings.
The floor plan is developed on three main rooms in sequence one behind the other, which preserve the coffered ceilings, restored to their ancient splendor, the white double doors and the cementine floors, which have been recovered and reintegrated into the project with surprising solutions. In a perfect aesthetic ensemble, they mix with new finishes and modern structural presences, finding a conceptual dynamic that is decidedly refined.
The living room is a minimal environment where the design generates a timeless atmosphere and the ancient meets the modern, mixing the different finishes.
The different rooms were designed to tell two distinct stylistic souls: the bright and open “public house”, with white walls and overlooking a small street in the neighborhood; and the colorful and welcoming “private house”, which instead looks out onto the internal courtyards and roofs of the Capital.
The reading corner is a small boudoir of pure color, where there is space for a built-in wardrobe, a beautiful bookcase and a guest bathroom.
Entering through the front door you enter directly into the living room where two windows illuminate the interior, characterized by original flooring and ceiling, furnished with a careful choice of contemporary design, which leads to a pink and blue capsule designed as a reading corner. Hidden in the niches are a built-in wardrobe and a small guest bathroom in shades of green.
The bright dining room is a conceptual continuum of the living room style and dialogues aesthetically with the disruptive chromaticism of the kitchen.
In the dining room, immediately after the living room, the chromatic fil rouge continues where the cementine floor stands out, recomposed according to a new layout, which leave space for the monochromatic resin that marks the passage to the kitchen, separated by a sliding glass door.
The kitchen is an explosion of color playing on pink and blue, separated from the dining room by a contemporary glass door that, in addition to letting in light, elegantly divides the two spaces.
Here too, the space is defined by the use of colour, starting from the two lateral totems that hide the refrigerator on one side and the oven on the other, called Scilla a Cariddi by the designers, which introduce the operational part of the environment always played on the surprising contrast between pink and blue.
The bedroom is a minimalist refuge in shades of blue, also reflected in the recovered cement tiles that form the headboard. The large matching wardrobe, instead, leads to the most intimate part of the house: the bathroom.
The last room you come across is the bedroom, an essential space where the cement tiles recovered from the renovation become an extraordinary headboard. On the opposite wall, the wardrobe stands out, leading to the walk-in closet and the en suite bathroom, with a glass door to make the room brighter, designed in shades of blue and green. A small balcony, accessible only from the bathroom, offers an additional view of the Eternal City, an intimate and refined look like the allure of the house itself.
Project by Punto Zero – puntozeroarchitetti.com
Photo © Carlo Oriente
The bathroom reflects the colors present in the house, combining blue with green, in an ensemble that, at the same time, is very elegant and minimalist.
The floor plan of Casa Volver © Punto Zero
On the cover, the living room of Casa Volver characterized by the white walls contrasting with the coffered ceiling and the geometric play of the cement tiles on the floor.
