Redesigned in 2020 by Hannes Peer Architecture, this inspiring apartment / atelier is located in Milan, Italy.

Description
This apartment atelier is what the architect Hannes Peer calls his personal refuge. He searched for it for over 3 years before finally finding it. The space, a former typography, over the years and through different business owners has been a typography, a beauty salon and at last a massage therapy center with more than 20 small rooms subdivided by an infinite number of walls. The potential of the architectural space was barely visible when he saw the space for the first time, his best friends thought him crazy when he took the place to make it finally his own. Being an architect with a good experience with industrial era constructions in Milan and a certain sculptural vision in mind, tabula rasa like he tore down over 50 walls creating a two leveled airy open space with skylights and oversized windows. The space has become multifunctional in order to satisfy the architect’s meaning of spatial use. It is first of all an apartment, a living space, then an atelier space. One has to know that living and working for Hannes Peer is all about the same, both intertwine constantly in his life, for this exact reason he has created this space around him, a space where he can put all his creativity at work, from architecture to interior design to building his own design prototypes and his sculptural paintings whenever some freetime allows it.
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