Apartment renovation with unfinished interiors in Rome,
Rome-based architecture and design studio STUDIOTAMAT has completed the renovation of an apartment with raw,
unfinished interiors,
and specially designed engineering interventions at Tor de ‘Cenci, in the southern suburbs of Rome, Italy.
The 120 square meter house has been named Rude House.
It is a Brutalist-inspired apartment overlooking the Castelporziano Nature Reserve.
It has been re-engineered in a striking and distinctive style with strong material touches.
Design features
STUDIOTAMAT designed this house for a young lawyer couple, who wanted a bright, open and characterful home.
The house features large windows with an equipped terrace of 40 square meters that allows an abundance of natural light.
The gaze is allowed to wander towards the greenery and down to the Roman coast.
Concrete Architectural Experience
The studio harmoniously combines different tones, moods and textures,
stimulating the “tactile experience of architecture”.
Using clean, elegant lines, these features balance out the lids’ raw side,
Like the terracotta in the kitchen or the perforated brick wall, with the typical artisanal flair,
that separates the living area from the study.
The natural hydraulic lime-based cement has an elaborate texture that makes the space vibrate.
While the walls and ceilings have been treated with a lightened skim coat of recycled glass spheres,
making the surfaces heterogeneous.
Casa Rude grew out of these needs, so it was renamed Sensory Use of Materials.
Like the reinforced concrete left exposed and unshaven of the columns and beams,
which frame the living room rooms.
For example, the living area is visualized as a loft,
It is a single space with unfinished walls and a continuous floor, which includes the entrance,
living room, dining room and kitchen,
Visually connected by the supporting structure in exposed concrete.
As a centerpiece, a massive multifunctional cube in birch wood hides inside the pantry,
a wardrobe for coats and a cupboard with a TV.
Geometric furniture dominates the interior space
The work done on the interiors extends to the custom-made furnishings.
The dining table has a solid wood top burnt using the Japanese shou sugi technique and is supported
by a ceramic barrel leg and two wrought iron plates;
The studio desk moves in space thanks to a wooden wheel that runs on a track hidden inside the bookcase;
and the construction sofa is cut keeping in mind the physicality of the owners;
The kitchen with island is completely covered with terracotta worktop and Patagonia marble incorporating two reinforced concrete columns inside.
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