In a beautiful and central place in Milan an adequate attention to the historicity can not be overlooked. The history and time in architecture in this case, have a strong presence thanks to the baptistery of the church of San Satiro by Donato Bramante. The church is a very historicist element that defines
the space of the square with its round shapes.

Here starts the desire to open the building to the city. 
The treatment of the ground floor also plays with the relationship between the “portico” (flow gap) and the piazza (a static space but also a dynamic one).

 

The issue is then to carry the city into the new building, creating different and new ways of life.
Bringing the city into the apartments with the possibility at the same time to see the sky, with the creation of two large spaces, one vertical that looks at the sky trough big skylights (bedroom)

and one horizontal that opens to the city. The relationship between these two spaces changes during the day.

The sleeping area is always in contact and in direct relationship

with the city by a sliding walln between the bedroom and the living room.
During the day infact the space remains fully open and the sliding wall allows the light to

come in two different ways: the first in an indirect manner through the openings to the
city, on the other one, especially in the morning and afternoon, the direct light,

illuminates the shaft through the white walls above the bed.

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In this way, people living in these apartments can feel the city in many different ways by having a space perception that opens just to the sky, or just to the city,or both.