A small dental studio at the top floor of a bourgeois residential building in Milan was converted into apartment. Despite its small size, further reduced by the strict room division, the space had windows on three different sides. The possibility to renovate the attic level allowed to add a studio and a bedroom with a small walk-in closet on the upper level. Natural lighting was further developed by opening two new roof windows and using translucent materials and mirrors. The project is characterised by a great continuity and transparency of space: the only opaque element is the bathroom block.

The division wall between the bedroom on the upper floor and the kitchen (north oriented) at the lower level is made of polycarbonate panels, in order to increase the brightness of the space and to create a sort of lantern effect. A metal folded staircase in the living room links the two level, and at the upper floor it separates the bedroom from the studio, which looks out onto the double height of the living room.