This one bedroom attic apartment in Milan is the twin of Attic 5.1: the two units came out of the same renovation of the roof floor of a building in Corso Concordia, in Porta Monforte. They share the rebuilt structure, the materials and the approach. Each has its own plan and its own character.

One home for one or two people

The brief was a flat for a professional or a couple moving to Milan for a few months. The plan keeps the essentials and gives each of them room: a living and dining area under the highest part of the roof, a separate bedroom, a bathroom, and a kitchen that works for daily cooking rather than an occasional breakfast.

Letting the roof shape the rooms

The rebuilt timber structure stays in sight, painted white so the beams add rhythm without making the rooms feel low. The lowest parts of the slope, which usually go to waste in an attic, hold built-in wardrobes and shelving, so that the open floor stays free for living. Tall French windows bring daylight deep into the plan.

Colour in a few places

The base is quiet: chevron oak floors and white walls. Colour is placed where it can be read from across the flat, in the blue-grey kitchen cabinets, in the lighting and in the bedside furniture. Framed photographs complete the rooms and give the apartment an identity in listing photos.

Ready from the first day

Like its twin, Concordia is handed over complete, furnished and equipped. A tenant arrives with a suitcase and starts living there the same evening. For the owner, two coordinated units mean one design language, shared suppliers and simpler maintenance across the floor.

The one bedroom attic apartment in Milan of Concordia shows how arcHITects turns a roof floor into homes ready for medium-term stays. See more of our homes in Residential, our work on short rent apartment design, and the studio.

Design: HIT arcHITects – Piantini