Zigo-Zago, a tribute to Enzo Zacchiroli. The renovation of an apartment in the Le Torri complex in Bologna

On the tenth floor of the Le Torri residential complex designed by Enzo Zacchiroli, who said with his architecture that he was "always looking for the well-being and happiness of the Little Man," an apartment is equipped with the Zigo-Zago container volume to create through the new design a direct connection with the original structure

MIRO architects, commissioned of the renovation, tackles this challenging confrontation with the architecture of Zacchiroli, an architect son of the Modern Movement who grew up in the school of Frank Lloyd Wright, deciding to bring the exteriors inside the dwelling. Here, the initial difficulty given by the presence of a concrete wall that cut through the floor plan becomes the strength of the project

The wall is enveloped by a custom-made container volume called 'Zigo-Zago': a piece of furniture-divider with a rhythmic silhouette that reinterprets with its design the formal logic, functional idea and the play of chiaroscuro of the building's iconic facade, transforming itself into a small-scale remodeling of it

At the center of the apartment, white with contrasting black niches to create depth, Zigo-Zago becomes the backbone around which all the other rooms are modulated: from the day area, with interconnected kitchen-dining and living, to the sleeping area deliberately concealed as a private space accessed through a majestic hovering door that serves as a gateway to the intimacy of the house