Villa T Architrend Architecture

Villa T  Architrend Architecture

HOUSES•ITALY

Architects: Architrend Architecture

Area: 310 m²

Year: 2007

Photographs: Umberto Agnello

A plateau with sandstone walls dividing the numerous pieces of property serves as the context, which is 

agricultural. The Ibleo territory used to be distinguished by the fruitful "masserie" outposts, farms with 

cultivated fields, and cattle ranches, but today its appearance has altered. Construction has gradually filled 

empty places, eliminating the network of isolated architectural complexes collected around courtyards, like 

"pacific forts," in place of scattered farmhouses that were isolated and divided by farmlands. Nevertheless, the 

project's location has preserved some of the priceless notion of "isolation," and the entire design makes sense of this setting by developing a direct relationship with the landscape, which is exposed on two sides, while also 

emerging from it thanks to an elegant contemporary design.

A spacious single-family home alone in the middle of a meadow, surrounded by the free, linear horizon of the 

plateau, serves as the program for the compositional process. The architecture stands out strongly in this 

location amid the grassy countryside, which is viewed as undeveloped ground for development, as a whole entity with distinct bounds. However, the introduction of outdoor living spaces, or rooms without walls, that become components of the entire solution, makes its bounds less "introverted" and more accessible to the visual enjoyment of the outside world.

A sort of continuous architectural ribbon that reinterprets the style of the Mediterranean home, developing, 

bending to form rooms and the roof, outdoor zones raised from meadow-like platforms, porticos and overhangs, balconies and terraces, is the basis for the relationship with the context and the order of the three stacked floors. The harmonious antithesis of the southern and eastern facades, which are totally glazed and open to the flora, are flanked by a strong facade made of stone to the north.

They show that the living area is two stories tall, with a mono-beam staircase going to the first floor, which has 

a studio area and a bedroom. While the bright living and dining area highlights the double height of the 

construction with its big pitched roof, the daylight area is connected to the kitchen, which is housed in the 

lower volume. The master bedroom section, which includes a bathroom and a closet, lies behind the living space. 

The living-dining-kitchen layout comes across two outdoor areas: on one side, facing the living room, a terrace at ground level connects to an underground patio that is faced by two bedrooms and a den, each of which are shaded for cool comfort.

Behind the kitchen, connected by a full-height glazing, an external portico is like a room without walls, open to 

the surrounding lawn. The white stucco and stone facings that wrap the forceful geometric design, highlighted by a red floor marker that interrupts the high corner glazing, the planes that combine, in a dynamic way, around the sloping roof, reveal the pursuit of a ‘possible Mediterranean style’ that pays attention to local history, but 

without copying, ready for experimentation with new possibilities.

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