Archventil has reopened its studio at the same Milan address where the company began: Corso San Gottardo 8, now home to Casa Archventil, a 100 sqm space conceived as both creative headquarters and corporate residence.The building once housed the international architecture, interior design, procurement and delivery studio‘s very first workshop, and the return is framed by Archventil as an evolution rather than a retreat into nostalgia — the same address, approached with a more mature and international practice behind it.
That continuity with the past shapes the project’s premise more than any single design gesture. Casa Archventil was designed as a home rather than a conventional office, a place where clients, partners, and collaborators move through meetings, material selections, and project development without those activities being separated into distinct functions or rooms.
Before the renovation, the historic building’s floor plan followed a conventional residential logic: bedrooms, bathrooms, and a corridor organized as private, separated rooms, with no space conceived for shared use.
The reorganized plan opens that same footprint around shared tables and a lounge area, extending it toward a planted courtyard rather than closing the layout off — a domestic register kept intact even as the use of the space has shifted from residence to a hybrid of studio and home.
Original architectural details were preserved rather than replaced: high ceilings, decorative mouldings, and the proportions of the historic rooms remain legible throughout, set against contemporary furnishings, artworks, decorative lighting, and curated finishes. It’s a pairing of old and new Milan headquarters design has seen worked through before in other recent apartment renovations, including Atelier Zero’s DUBI apartment, where local materials were similarly treated as a starting point for dialogue with contemporary finishes rather than as a fixed reference to replicate.
A materials library sits at the center of Casa Archventil‘s working method, gathering surfaces, textiles, stones, woods, and finishes as active tools in the design process rather than as a background reference. Alongside the meeting areas, it stands in for the studio’s broader approach to interior projects — aesthetics, functionality, and project delivery treated as a single continuous process rather than sequential stages.
Furniture, lighting and material brands brought into the space include Binova, Liu Jo Living, Miniforms, Muuto, Axolight, Egoluce, Lampex Italiana, Forbo, and JAB — a curated furniture and lighting selection that runs alongside Archventil’s own interior design and styling work throughout the project.
The historic courtyard and portico extend that working method beyond the interior itself, giving the studio’s corporate residence in Milan an additional setting for informal meetings, presentations, and conversations outside the building’s walls.
A return to Corso San Gottardo closes the loop the project set out to draw: Casa Archventil now holds both functions the move back was meant to combine — a workplace and a residence, folded into the same rooms the studio once worked out of at the very start.
Casa Archventil by Archventil | Location: Corso San Gottardo 8, Milan, Italy — Year: 2026 — Key materials: existing masonry and mouldings, wood, stone, textiles