Casa Continua / STUDIOTAMAT

Architects: STUDIOTAMAT
Area: 115 m²
Year: 2026
Photography: Serena Eller, Ellerstudio
Lead Architects: Tommaso Amato, Matteo Soddu, Valentina Paiola, Alice Patrizi
Contractor: Ediltel B
Materials: Original parquet flooring, custom terrazzo by D’Ascenzi, Little Greene paints, Sandberg Jon Burgundy wallpaper, Harlequin Elsworthy Wide Width wallpaper, oak joinery, burgundy glazed partitions
Furniture and Suppliers: Libellula chairs by Giovanni Carini for Planula, Camaleonda sofa by Mario Bellini for B&B Italia, L’Opificio upholstery fabrics, Flos Foglio wall light, Belfiore 9010 spotlights, &Tradition AP16 pendants, Foscarini Caboche Plus Grande pendant, Artemide Nessino table lamp, Artemide Dioscuri table lamp, Artemide Tolomeo Mega Floor lamp, VL45 Radiohus pendants
City: Via Cesare Beccaria, Flaminio district, Rome
Country: Italy

Casa Continua is a 115 sqm apartment in Rome’s Flaminio district redesigned by STUDIOTAMAT as a contemporary domestic interior shaped by continuity, memory, and sociability. Located within a residential building with rationalist references, the home was reorganized after more than thirty years of occupation to reflect the owner’s evolving routines. The project repositions the kitchen as the spatial and social center, expands the living areas, and introduces a fluid sequence of rooms connected by material, visual, and chromatic relationships. Original parquet flooring is restored and paired with custom terrazzo, oak joinery, glazed partitions, and built-in seating, allowing existing architectural features to become active parts of the new interior. The apartment strikes a balance between openness and defined atmospheres, allowing for distinct identities for cooking, dining, reading, and rest within a coherent whole. Through tailored interventions and carefully selected furnishings, the project preserves traces of the home’s past while supporting a more shared and adaptable way of living.

Casa Continua approaches renovation as an act of calibration rather than replacement, transforming an apartment shaped by accumulated habits into a setting that acknowledges memory while altering the terms of daily life. STUDIOTAMAT’s intervention does not erase the home’s previous structure. Instead, it works through its existing conditions, converting former limitations into opportunities for spatial precision, visual connection, and renewed use.

The apartment unfolds through a sequence of rooms linked by thresholds that are both physical and perceptual. This measured progression gives the interior a rhythm suited to its Roman context, where layers of time are rarely concealed. In the Flaminio district, the project draws from the character of the building and its rationalist undertones, translating that disciplined architectural language into an interior defined by proportion, material continuity, and carefully controlled color.

The kitchen forms the central transformation. Previously reduced in importance, it has been reestablished as the functional and social core of the home. Enclosed by custom burgundy glazed partitions, it reads as a distinct volume while remaining visually connected to adjoining rooms.

“The key focus of the project was to correct what the client described as ‘the most significant mistake’ of the house’s previous life: the downsizing of the kitchen. We reversed that logic, transforming it into the engine of conviviality – a dynamic volume from which movement can be observed, and the life of the house can be joined without ever feeling apart from it.” – Valentina Paiola, STUDIOTAMAT

The reeded and glazed surfaces filter views and light, giving the kitchen presence without imposing enclosure. This treatment allows cooking to become part of the apartment’s shared life, rather than an activity isolated behind conventional domestic boundaries.

The living area emerges from the union of three former rooms, a strategy that creates greater openness while preserving a sense of sequence. Restored original panelled parquet extends through the space, reinforcing continuity underfoot, while a fine burgundy line traces the upper wall perimeter and ties the rooms together with a subtle graphic register. Structural columns, rather than being hidden, are absorbed into custom oak joinery that incorporates bookshelves and seating. These elements give architectural constraints a domestic function, turning the apartment’s fixed conditions into active parts of its use.

Furniture and finishes deepen this dialogue between inherited fabric and new intervention. Mario Bellini’s Camaleonda sofa in green velvet anchors the living space with sculptural softness, while custom benches upholstered in L’Opificio fabrics introduce a tailored tactile layer. Their geometry relates to the custom terrazzo flooring, establishing a recurring motif that shifts across the apartment in tone and placement. The dining room acts as a connective hinge, where a custom table and vintage Libellula chairs by Giovanni Carini occupy a permeable setting defined by burgundy metal and reeded glass.

The reading room offers a quieter register. Designed around the owner’s extensive collection of books, it introduces a more intimate atmosphere through integrated seating and built-in shelving.

“The challenge was to give a home to thousands of accumulated books. We were not interested in creating an undifferentiated open-plan space, but rather a tailored sense of fluidity. From the custom terrazzo to the oak joinery embracing the structural columns, every detail was conceived as a prototype allowing the memory of Flaminio to coexist with a new everyday dynamism.” – Valentina Paiola, STUDIOTAMAT

Here, the project’s fluidity becomes more contained, demonstrating that openness does not depend on a continuous open plan but on the careful orchestration of movement, sightlines, and use.

In the sleeping area, bespoke oak wardrobes wrap the room with a consistent architectural language. Fabric-upholstered panels in Filigrana by L’Opificio add depth and softness, while Harlequin’s Elsworthy Wide Width wallpaper introduces an organic backdrop behind an ochre velvet Flou bed. The chromatic choices recall tones used elsewhere in the apartment, maintaining cohesion while giving the bedroom a more private and composed character.

Casa Continua ultimately presents domestic renovation as a negotiation between permanence and change. Through restored parquet, custom terrazzo, oak joinery, glazed partitions, and calibrated color, STUDIOTAMAT creates an interior that supports conviviality without sacrificing intimacy. The apartment becomes a continuous environment in which past and present are not opposed, but held in productive balance, allowing the home to remain rooted in its history while adapting to a new everyday life.