Residenza B05 treats colour as structure, not decoration — the mechanism that organizes the apartment where walls would otherwise have to. The interior architecture project, designed by Milan-based studio Chromastudio, threads a central corridor through roughly fifteen interrelated tones, letting chromatic fields rather than partitions define where one function ends and another begins. Every room in the apartment is reached through a threshold rather than a doorway in the conventional sense.
A connective spine runs the length of the plan: the corridor itself is conceived as an inhabitable space rather than a passage to move through quickly. A large custom-built wardrobe absorbs the laundry area into the corridor’s volume, while a burgundy ceiling and softly rounded corners guide circulation, turning what would typically be residual space into a lived-in environment in its own right.
The living area unfolds as an open-plan sequence combining living room and kitchen, organized — like the corridor — through chromatic fields rather than walls. A portal marks the entry point and introduces the unified space; a second threshold, between living room and kitchen, follows shortly after.
A bespoke sliding partition, built in glass and featuring graphic arches, marks that second threshold. The detail recalls Parisian architectural imagery reinterpreted for a contemporary Milan apartment, responding directly to the clients’ wish to bring memories of their time in Paris into their Milanese home. A further, quieter threshold — a door integrated into the corridor cabinetry — separates the living area from the private spaces without announcing itself as a wall.
The chromatic composition at the center of the project is built from approximately fifteen interrelated tones, applied with the same rigor typically reserved for structural elements. In the living area, a peach-coloured ceiling carries the eye toward the kitchen, where the presence of sage-green Fenix surfaces is set directly against a deep violet counterpoint.
A mosaic floor continues the dialogue in a different material register: designed as a pixelated pattern in violet, petrol blue, honey and pink, it meets the natural oak herringbone parquet running through the rest of the apartment. The pairing balances decorative intensity against material continuity, rather than letting one dominate the other.
Every element is bespoke — glazing, flooring, built-in furniture and finishes contribute to a coherent system of geometries and proportions, rather than as separate specifications layered onto an existing shell.
A scenographic sensibility underlies the project, consistent with Chromastudio‘s broader practice at the intersection of interior design and scenography. The studio treats colour as a tool for organizing volumes and proportions rather than as a decorative layer, working with depth, sequences and viewpoints much as a stage designer would treat a sequence of scenes — an approach that shows through in Residenza B05’s threshold-driven plan.
In the private areas, the same chromatic logic becomes denser and more controlled. Colour extends into the bathrooms, where deep greens, soft pinks and terrazzo surfaces combine — a materic pairing that echoes, in a different register, the terrazzo work in a recent Milan apartment renovation by atelierzero. By the time colour reaches these final rooms, it has stopped acting like a finish and started behaving like the plan itself.
Residenza B05 by Chromastudio | Location: Milan, Italy — Year: 2026 — Key materials: Fenix surfaces, natural oak herringbone parquet, mosaic flooring, terrazzo | Furniture and Kitchen Supplier: MO1950