The best interiors Domus selected for 2024 are once again very similar to a selection of renovations, and we can only be largely satisfied with it: reuse and circularity are increasingly fundamental to architecture, on a planet that is in danger of consuming itself, badly. But there are more hot topics in interior living, that a 2024 where ‘brain rot’ has been elected word of the year is putting before our very eyes.

Through local and global scenarios where houses are getting smaller and smaller, and increasingly difficult to make one’s own exclusive habitat, we have explored interior architecture this year as a landscape of intuitions capable of transforming the spaces where we live, work and meet, making us aware that we are doing it in 2024, and not just because of some perceived inconveniences.

Intuitions like sculptures entering inside houses to redefine layouts that are too rigid and sacrificed; like vertical topographies created by boiseries or free structures reorganizing spaces in new sequences; like radical and contemporary signs – metals, reflections, iridescences, transforming walls, brutalist concrete – opening dialogues with history.

Setting out from Italy to explore different countries, Milan to Rio via Turin, Paris and Barcelona, we have selected stories of intuitive interiors that in the coming years can inspire our living at large, hoping that such “large” will once again prevail over a dangerous normalization of smallness.

By transforming a grand hall that had already been divided several times, llabb's project brings the architecture of the ancient city into dialogue with an interior dedicated to light, books and conviviality. Read more

The project by Paola Sola on Via Toledo seeks identity and domestic warmth for an apartment with a complex layout, amidst games of pure shapes and color contrasts. Read more

Studio Bibbi’s intervention is a dialogue with the interiors of an early 20th century building, opening up spaces and valorizing an existing visual identity with cerulean and burgundy nuances. Read more

Surrounding a multifunctional totem emerging in the space, distinguishing living and kitchen through a mirrored surface bordering the entrance, a bar area toward the sofa and a wine cellar toward the table, the new configuration of an apartment on Via Nava, articulates between dynamism, color, interconnected and open spaces. Read more

An interlocking game reminiscent of the engineering of a Matryoshka doll, the reflections of Modern masters (from Jean Prouvé to Le Corbusier to Charlotte Perriand) on minimum housing and the material preciosity of the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies Van der Rohe: this is Golden Box, the interior renovation project of a small dwelling in Arzignano in the province of Vicenza, realised by young award-winning studio AMAA which, taking its inspiration from a challenging context, aimed to push the research on living experience beyond the limits of traditional conventions. Read more

For a flat overlooking the Strait of Messina from the inside of a 1970s building, Punto Zero has conceived a space that manages to be "open, continuous and fragmented" at the same time. The renovation conceived by the designers for this 175 sqm surface is a redefinition of its very lifestyle, centred on the characteristics of fluidity and transferability. Read more

With the project for the Silvia & Diego house, studio MH.AP was confronted with an apartment in Barcelona that was already strongly characterized at the outset, by the numerous Nolla mosaics – a decorative milestone of modernism – in the floors and by the ceiling moldings: the decision was to enrich such discourse with a new narrative of space, generating a new continuity between the rooms of the house. Floors and ceilings intersect to form an enveloping interior space, where the architecture is defined by a palette of a few colors and recurring wooden elements. Continue reading

Renovated by untitled architecture, a house in Porta Venezia handed down between several generations of the same family has found a design asset in its layout constraints. Read more