Casa Balboni originally designed by Carlo Scarpa has been redesigned in 2020 by Map Studio. The house is situated in Venice, Italy.

Description
Towards the end of 2017 we were commissioned to restore Balboni?s House by Carlo Scarpa in Venice.
His work is announced on the front facing the garden with a prominent reinforced concrete avant-corps, which encloses the entrances to the house.
On the ground floor, the spacious living room reveals the whole width of the house and overlooks the terrace on the Grand Canal, most of all the floorings are in Prun stone slabs with strips of Lasa marble in good conditions. All the walls and ceilings of the house, apart from those of the service areas on the ground floor, were originally finished with ivory-white Venetian-style stucco lucido. Unfortunately, over time the surfaces in stucco had undergone an inexorable yellowing, due to the oxidation of the components and to the presence of tobacco smoke. Added to this was irreparable damage to the internal surfaces of the living room, due to consolidation work on the condominium facade of the building on the Grand Canal, carried out with little attention for the uniqueness of Casa Balboni. Once we had overcome our astonishment at the precarious state of preservation of the house we began a study in depth of the extent of the original work, to organize the project of restoration. Carlo Scarpa did not follow completion of the building work carefully, due to frequent disagreements ...