PL36 is a contemporary duplex apartment located in Verona, Italy, redesigned in 2021 by Giulia Urciuoli of Coarch Studio.

Description
Renovation project for a two-level apartment in Verona, near Castelvecchio.
The clients, a couple of young lawyers with three children, asked the architects to renovate the apartment with wooden floors and find space for contemporary furniture and some family objects they had collected.
The house had been renovated in various stages in the ’80s and early ’90s, the main work was to select and enhance the various interventions that followed one another, lightening the space and trying to make a story out of it.
Gio Ponti’s text “Manifesto della Casa adatta” of 1970 outlines some points that were the inspiration for the project: We don’t have to adapt to a generic house but it is the house that has to adapt to us.
1. The adapted house is a way of thinking about housing in a versatile way to make it an expression of our cultural individuality.

2. Abandoning patterns of segregated rooms connected by anterooms, hallways, and doors,

3. No more walls in front of the eyes, no bigger or smaller spaces but to have great breadth and deeper internal views
The large living area has been kept as free as possible with long perspective views of the other rooms, the space is characterized by French herringbone parquet with long natural oak planks. The living area is delineated into two liv...