Excerpt: Vuotopieno, a home interior project by Filippo Bombace, combines order and cleanliness with functional features for a tourism-focused dwelling. The project adds a second bathroom and service rooms to an already suitable floor plan, respecting the building’s original finishes and pathos. This intervention revives cement floors, vaulted ceilings, fixtures, and decorations, giving new life to the existing decor.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] Those tourists looking for a location in which to experience the true flavours of the city will find in vuotopieno the ideal place for a Roman stay, in which to experience in the heart of the Prati district the most authentic and genuine characters of the Rome of the last century, to be enjoyed with all the comfort of today’s technologies, immersed in the rough flavours of an elegant accommodation facility on the banks of the Tiber river.
The name – vuotopieno – coined by the customer himself, is intended to synthesise the desired sense of order and cleanliness, fused with the more functional features needed for a dwelling to be dedicated to tourism.
Thus, on a floor plan already suitable for the purpose, only a second bathroom and a few service rooms functional to the future activity were added, implementing an intervention extremely respectful of the building’s original finishes and pathos, thus giving new life to the cement floors, vaulted ceilings, fixtures and decorations found under the various layers of paint.
Even with the furnishing elements, it was decided to indulge in the simple and natural flavours of an establishment open to hospitality, carefully mixing handcrafted, salvaged or new industrial production pieces, thus defining the character of a home that is sometimes empty and sometimes full, but always serene in its warm hospitality.
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