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Cranes Attic: The Crane
von Lorenzo Trompetto / Gosplan, IT-Genua

www.gosplan.it

The flat is situated in the city centre of Genoa, on the top of a

building in the medieval neighbour on the old dock that protects

the city for the Middle Age. The apartment has a 40 square

meters surface, a small area that hosts a living room with open

kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom. The bedroom and the

living room are divided by a custom made piece of furniture that

is a closet on the bedroom side and a set of stairs on the livin-

groom side. Another flight of stairs hung to the ceiling leads to

the rooftop terrace, with a great view over the shipyards and

their cranes. This industrial context inspired the raw materials

that characterized the refurbishment, such as the osb wooden

panels painted in white, used for the furniture and the doors, or

the folded metal sheet employed for the suspended stairs. The
metal beams that reinforce the slab after the opening of the sky-

window are highlighted by painting them with a white colour,

generating a contrast with the gray ceiling. The small flat is very

sunny thanks to the skywindow and to the large windows allow-

ing wide views of the downtown and of the harbour. Gosplan

Foto: Anna Positano, IT-Genua