Symmetry Apartment / Alepreda Architecture
The original layout of this apartment in the center of Prague had four rooms organized around a large entry vestibule–a typical configuration for this typology of elegant residences in the city center.
Alepreda Architecture
Alepreda Architecture is a full-service boutique architectural practice based in New York and Brescia, Italy, combining architecture, interior, product design, and research. Founded by Italian-born architect and furniture designer Alessandro Preda, the studio designs across scales with a focus on digital fabrication, and craft. Believing that the act of making–the translation of ideas into physical form–is a catalyst for discovery, the practice merges a studio space with a fabrication workshop where design questions are tackled through models, prototypes, and material explorations.
LOCATION: New York and Brescia, Italy
https://www.alepreda.com/
Tosio St. Apartment / Alepreda Architecture
The Tosio St. Apartment transforms a dated layout into a contemporary, flexible, light-filled space. The original floor plan was segmented into small rooms and had a labyrinthine circulation with no access to natural light.
Round Wall Studio / Alepreda Architecture
The Round Wall Studio project is a gut renovation of an apartment in a previously dilapidated Italian Palazzo. The design addressed a number of structural issues, introduced modern plumbing and electrical systems and reconfigured the layout as a large loft-like studio.
Piano Nobile Loft / Alepreda Architecture
This apartment gut-renovation inside a 16th century palazzo addresses a number of structural issues and transforms the space into a large, loft-like studio with a mezzanine. The design strategy leaves the majority of ceiling plane uninterrupted, recreating the scale of the original space: once the palace living room, it was subsequently divided into small rooms.