It all started with a question

Alessio Lamarca and Marta Ciabattini didn't start this project with a blueprint, but with a question: How does the person who will live in this apartment really live?

The answer wasn't in references or a wish list. It was in their routines. In how they arrive home after a typical day. In which spaces they use and which they don't. In the things they do without thinking.

They arrive, leave their bags where it's convenient. They change. Open the fridge. Maybe reheat yesterday's Chinese noodles. They sit on the sofa, on the floor, or wherever they feel like that day. The day isn't planned; it just happens.

The project was designed around those moments.

Designed for those who live in the
The important decisions did not arise from an aesthetic idea, but from observing how a person actually lives. There was no need for a large dining table because they never host dinner parties for ten people. The kitchen was sized for its actual intended use. Storage was designed around what they actually use in their daily life, not what they are supposedly meant to have. Each space was defined by eliminating what was not needed to make room for what was.

The result is an apartment that responds to a specific person, not a generic version of how a home is supposed to be lived in.

An ordinary Tuesday

She doesn't cook much. She orders takeout. Later, she'll be reading on the sofa, or looking for a vinyl record she hasn't played in a while.

It's not a special occasion.

No visitors.

It's not an edited version of everyday life.

That's why each room reflects how life is truly lived.

Not how it "should" be lived.

The difference between a good kitchen and the right kitchen isn't in its size. It's in understanding how it will be used.

The same language, a different character

WOOD Nogal runs through the kitchen and combines with the particular pink tone of LACA Marga. It's the common thread of the project: a warm tone that provides continuity and connects the different spaces.

Later, in the closet, something changes. LACA Ave appears. The design logic remains intact, but how the space feels changes.