Residential
The project
A single-storey villa in Mestre, designed around the person who lives in it: the client lives with a rare degenerative disease, and the house had to be inclusive through and through, not merely accessible.
The work started from there. Before the layout, the ground, the orientations, the sounds, the views and the smells of the place were studied; the plan was traced starting from a circle with a gnomon at its centre, and the rooms were arranged along the axes thus found. It is the method the studio calls Quantum Adaptive Connection of Architecture 3.0: the house as an extension of the body of the person living in it, in balance between what it receives from the place and what it gives back.
Everything on one level, without steps: a row of low volumes in dark wood, pale stone and grey stone, with the glass living room open onto the patio, the dining room continuing onto the deck as far as the lawn, the pool in the garden and, inside, a room with a small physiotherapy pool. The entrance is a wooden portal; in the evening the volumes light up one by one.
The materials are chosen for what they do, not only for how they look. In the bath room one wall is built of pink Himalayan salt bricks; the living areas have chromotherapy colours laid in adamantine glue, glossy as ivory; the roof gardens and flower beds are grown in terra preta; the foundations are ventilated and lined with cellular glass, which shields from radon. The structure is in wood-cement formwork blocks, biocompatible and earthquake-resistant.
The project received the Premio Templum — ArchitettItaliani 2024, presented at the Campidoglio in Rome, and is published in the volume by the publisher RDE. Construction is under way.
