Studio Campa / Michela Ekström

Architect: Michela Ekström

Place: Roma, Italia

Year: 2022

Photographer: Daniele Vergari

The restyling of a doctor’s office in a 1970s building near Porta Portese in Trastevere, Rome represented a challenge for architect Michela Ekström, who addressed the topic of the relationship between the interior and the urban fabric.

The flat had a very strong tendency towards introversion, emphasized by the opacity of the windowpanes that excluded any possibility of view to the outside. The theme of the dialogue with the site therefore became the main theme of the project development.

The typological rigidity of the space has been broken through an interplay of mirrors which, developing along a broken line, give dynamism to the space by multiplying the reflected images, almost as if they were pieces of a film. What is outside therefore now enters inside, superimposing its own forms, materials and light. The interior space, characterized by white surfaces and rigorous bespoke joinery volumes, thus accommodates in its abstract purity the rhythm and variation of the exterior façades.

The materials selected included travertine for the entrance desk, which visually relates to the base of the facing facades, brown matt transparent lacquered MDF for the joinery elements in the entrance area, and green matt transparent lacquered panels for the medical rooms.