In the heart of Florence’ San Frediano, a fragmented interior is recomposed through thresholds, material traces and light insertions. Dwelling as domestic archaeology.
The apartment, carved out of a historic Florentine palazzo, unfolds in an L-shaped layout around an inner courtyard. The main hall leads into a series of lower-ceilinged rooms and finally into a bedroom, layered with different material histories: antique terracotta floors, squared-tile patterns, and walls where original decorations emerged after layers of paint were stripped away. The design began from these traces, restoring clarity to the spatial structure. Kitchen and bathroom were redefined as coloured capsules with deep blue and bread-crust tones, connected by thresholds marked with smooth concrete and a reflective hatch. In the main hall, a suspended bed in okoumé plywood and metal rods is anchored to a section of Florentine tram rail found on site: a lightweight gesture that frees the antique sloping floor while narrating the transformations of the building. In the bedroom, the same language appears in the mobile platform for the double bed and a wall-mounted metal structure holding shelves and hangers.