This New Jersey residence combines a steeply sloping Shingle Style roof with English Cottage Style brick buttresses, resulting in a "Shinglish" hybrid. Irregular clinker bricks animate the surfaces of strongly geometric forms.
The elegant early twentieth-century building is located next to Porta Venezia in the centre of Milan, an area characterized by some significant examples of Liberty architecture as well as the twentieth-century Rasini tower by Giò Ponti which, situated directly opposite, provides an evocative contrast. The bright, well-lit apartment, set over the top two floors of the building, contains 1950s furniture and an interesting contemporary art collection. The view outside looks mainly over the gardens around Porta Venezia. The principal entrance, situated on the lower floor, opens directly onto the living room situated on two levels and crowned by a long L-shaped balcony. The space is conceived as a single, flexible environment, where the various rooms are separated by sliding foldaway doors in coloured acidated glass. When “open”, the floor can be read in its length and breadth. The bathroom and kitchen are also located on this floor. On the upper floor, derived from two small terraces, are located the master bedroom with en suite bathroom and the two children’s rooms. The apartment is marked by simple touches, neutral colours and a beige and grey-coloured Verona stone flooring. A masonry and steel staircase, which appears to be suspended in mid-air, connects the two floors from the living room.
This house designed for Yolanda R. Pila, located in a small village in Madrid populated by irreducible neighbors who still resist the hustle and bustle, has been designed and planned to suit its inhabitants. Foster cats and dogs, friends, family and clients inhabit this space that changes uses and shape according to the light of day progresses. Yolanda moves to the house that formerly belonged to her grandmother, it is located on a small housing community in the North of Madrid. It is a single storey house, rather small, but it has an enormous garden in the backyard. Yolanda is, among many other things, ERREPILA [Design Studio for enterprising and courageous people].Architects: PKMN architectures Location: Madrid, Spain Photography: Javier de Paz García
