At the top of an elegant rationalist building, right in the heart of the historic center of Padua (northern Italy), a contemporary loft transforms a complex and enclosed existing flat, into a liquid space of light.
Large windows open the regenerated interiors to a panorama of extraordinary beauty; first to the city and its most famous monuments, further to the shimmering horizon of the Alpine foothills.
The enclosing perimeter walls, minimal and bright, embrace flooring and wall coatings that bring home the colors and warmth of the earth. Coffee-colored resins and natural beige travertine speak the material and chromatic language of the city, suggesting a sort of domestic underground "urbanity" and triggering a silent dialogue with the stones of the amazing historic architectures.
It almost seems like you can touch nature from the large terraces facing the landscape.
Slanted ceilings, disappearing panels and surprise-compartments wrap the vertical and horizontal shell of the old apartment completely redefining the overall sense of space.
This just starting from the entrance: when you step in a twenty-meters long light beam leads your way within the main spaces of the house, up to the amazing panoramic lounge where in and out both seem as suspended in a fluid atmospheric substance.
