In the municipality of Selargius, just outside Cagliari, we were commissioned to renovate a penthouse floor with modest interior dimensions and an unusually large terrace. This starting point pushed us to explore a fusion between inside and outside, capable of visually suggesting a much broader covered living space.

From this intuition came the need to create a dialogue between the living area and the surrounding open space, treating them as a single environment. The living area was therefore designed with fully glazed walls. The cylindrical exposed pillars are set back from the outer edge of the building, allowing the eye to extend naturally toward the horizon, which is itself framed by a breezeway pergola that acts as a true extension of the home. The result is a space with no apparent boundaries, a continuous permeability that offers its inhabitants an environment renewed in both scale and form.

The pergola, impressive yet ethereal, is composed of pure white geometric elements that provide shade and protection from the sun while offering privileged glimpses of the sky. It becomes a frame that captures, almost like an impromptu painting, the ever-changing character of nature. This natural presence continues along the entire perimeter of the terrace. Since the surrounding urban context holds limited architectural value, we sought to create a sort of visual screen between the new intervention and its surroundings. For this reason, a long planter line meticulously follows the boundary of the outdoor space. A sequence of plants and their blossoms forms a delicate filter between the home and the rest of the neighbourhood, ensuring privacy and a sense of seclusion, as though one were outside the city context, in an exclusive oasis defined only by the green of the vegetation and the blue of the sky.

The interiors, designed in detail with various bespoke elements, gain a distinctive character through the dark tones emerging from a deliberately neutral floor: black, dark marble with bronzed reflections, and mirrors that enhance the impression of expanded space. A blend of architectural devices conceived to give personality to rooms with relatively limited square footage. The use of marble, expertly crafted in Sardinia, adds value to both the interior and exterior spaces, elevating them and giving them a unique character, a hallmark of fine craftsmanship.