This project of refurbishment aimed to optimise the day-time area of this apartment, the former layout of which was too space-wasting (because of its rigid separation between rooms and because of the presence of mono-functional areas – as like the kitchen - which strongly limited the breath of common living spaces). All partitions between entrance hall, living room and kitchen, as well as their lobbies, have been knocked down in order to eliminate wasted areas and unify spaces: the traditional kitchen has been reduced to the only function of cooking and storing food, now located in a 7x1,7mt space, largely sufficient to the family’s needs; its former dining area has been annexed to the widened living room, and it is now well enough proportioned and designed to allow to also receive guests here, benefiting of the double advantage of being directly connected to the kitchen, yet well separated from it thanks to a wide and luminous partition consisting of glazed sliding panels. The whole day-time area has been conceived in order to consent a maximum of flexibility in its use: it may, in fact, be alternatively transformed in an open space – where living room, entrance hall, dining room and kitchen are all together integrated in one wide area (14x4,5mt) - or in a traditionally laid out space, where each of these functions is limited into a well defined perimeter and not interfering with each other, passing thorough a number of intermediate possible combinations. What made this possible was the simple adoption of two sliding partitions; each one is consisting of three full height superimposable frameless panels made of translucent laminated glass, installed on both left and right sides of the entrance door, located in an intermediary position between living and dining room. The simple deployment of such panels allows to split the open space in two or more perfectly autonomous sub-modules on which, recessed into an expressly designed alcove, opens a door giving access to a more intimate area of the apartment.