N°06  ·  Chiavari · Phase II

The House, Continued.

Two years after the first floor was divided, the developer’s work on the building moved on, and so did ours.

Atelier 8 returned to the same property in Chiavari for three further residences, drawn from plan to finish: layout, interior design and art direction.

The first chapter is The House, Divided. This is the second.

Location
Chiavari, Liguria
Project
Residential redevelopment
Phase
II
Intervention
3 further residences
Scope
Architectural planning, interior design, art direction
The House, Continued.

We already knew the building.

Its ceiling heights, its tall windows, its habit of throwing the trees’ shadows across every wall.

This time, three front doors.

Three residences, each drawn for itself rather than as a variation of the one next door.

Terracotta, slate blue, sage, plum. Colour does the separating; the architecture keeps them in the same house.

Same house. No formula.

01

Second visit.

Knowing a building changes how you draw it. The proportions were familiar; the plans were not. Each home was arranged around what the house already does well: height, light, and the green outside the windows.

Blue living room
Shelving wall in the slate-blue living room
Terracotta dining room by a tall curtained window
Terracotta kitchen with glazed tiles and black chairs
Terracotta dining room with two paintings
Bedroom with a patterned headboard
Burgundy wardrobe with a full-height mirror
Children’s room with two low beds and pendant lights
Bedroom with an orange wardrobe and mirror
Bedroom with a floral curtain and a window onto olive trees

The same attention, at every scale.

The bathrooms were given the same attention as the main rooms: their own proportions, materials and light, rather than one specification repeated three times.

Burgundy bathroom with two basins and tall mirrors
Burgundy bathroom with a shower and patterned floor
02

Everything around the table.

The second home was organised around the spaces where people come together. The plan opens one room into the next, allowing kitchen, dining and living to read as a continuous interior rather than separate functions.

Sage kitchen with a burgundy table and orange chairs
Galley kitchen in sage, towards the window
Kitchen detail: pendant, kettle and figs
Dining table by the window, orange chairs
Dining table with orange chairs, the blue living room beyond
Blue living room with a swing-arm lamp
Detail: blue sofa, cushions and chrome side table
Blue bedroom with a red upholstered bed
Blue bedroom with a red bed, towards the window
Bedroom with twin beds against blue walls
Bathroom with green tile and twin round mirrors
03

After dark, mostly.

The third home begins more quietly, with the private rooms first. From there, the sequence gradually opens towards the shared spaces — shifting in scale, colour and atmosphere as the apartment unfolds.

Bedroom with a striped upholstered bed and a painting
Bedroom with a striped bed and rust curtain
Children’s room with two low patterned beds
Single bed beneath two photographs
Living room with a red sofa and an orange painting
Dining room seen through a doorway, two glass pendants
Burgundy kitchen with steel wall units
Bathroom with blue tile and a round mirror
Dining room at night, the hills lit beyond the window

Two phases. One building. Five homes, and a roof.

The roof, of course, was already done.

← The House, Divided. — Phase I