Amid the woven fabric of a cityscape that still breathes the atmosphere of the twentieth century, architect Gian Luca Zoli reimagines a 1970s apartment with delicacy and precision, transforming it into a luminous, porous dwelling where the boundary between interior and exterior dissolves like vapor on glass. In Faenza, MM Home takes shape as an exercise in care and attentiveness, where every design gesture, from the selection of materials to the rhythm of thresholds, tells a new story of living rooted in continuity, light, and transformed heritage.
At the heart of this transformation lies the idea of living as passage, as exchange. The loggia and solarium, nearly forty square meters of openness to the sky, are no longer margins, but true extensions of the domestic space, like a greenhouse that filters, protects, and welcomes. A home that breathes through its thresholds, reclaiming the past to reframe it within a present imbued with lightness.
The threshold itself becomes a point of rupture and balance: the step that once marked the transition to the outside is now brought indoors, subtly redefining the hierarchy of the living area and guiding the flow from public to private spaces. The entire layout of the home is reorganized according to this logic of fluidity and transition, where architecture is conceived more as atmosphere than as boundary.
The traces of architect Filippo Monti, author of the original design, are preserved and reinterpreted: the full-height mahogany doors, carefully restored with artisanal precision, retain their function while expanding into paneling, cabinetry, and boiserie. Similarly, the two-tone marble flooring is not only recovered but extended across thresholds, becoming a recurring motif and eventually lining the main bathroom walls.
Every detail contributes to the construction of a narrative domestic landscape, where the project unfolds between memory and invention, between fidelity and rewriting.
CREDITS
Project: MM Home
Architects: Gian Luca Zoli
Location: Faenza (RA), Italy
Year: 2023
Photography: Guido Garotti / Stefano Maniero
