The owners, a young couple working remotely, approached the architecture studio to redesign their apartment so it could accommodate their needs and lifestyle while preserving the authentic character of the home. The apartment is located in an early-20th-century building in Rome’s Esquilino district, just a short walk from Colle Oppio Park and the Colosseum.

From the very first site visit, it became clear that the quality of the spaces was strongly defined by the original terrazzo floors. Their patterns and colors gave each room a distinct atmosphere, rich with traces of everyday life. During this initial exploratory phase, the studio also realized that the materiality and colors of the floors were far from fixed or static. Photographs taken during the survey proved particularly valuable in capturing how natural light interacts with the surfaces: as sunlight floods the rooms, the terrazzo seems to dissolve into shifting, almost immaterial planes.

The decision to restore and highlight the floors therefore served a double purpose: not only to preserve the terrazzo as a physical element, but also to safeguard the atmosphere shaped by those who had lived in the space before.

As a result, most of the demolition work focused on the living area. Here, the three large windows were visually and spatially connected to create a single, open space now filled with the many plants cultivated by the young homeowner, whose passion and unmistakable green thumb have transformed the room into a vibrant domestic landscape.