Casa nei Colli

Galzignano Terme, Italy

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Casa nei Colli

Galzignano Terme, Italy

Firm

Marco Baldassa

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2015

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

The construction of this house is the fruit of the client’s desire to create a new form of “living together” in domestic spaces to be shared, here the tradition of private ownership lives along with an increasing social need of creating spaces where both the social collaboration and the individual growth can find their nourishment.
As a result of the above precondition, the project needs to go against the most established architectural rules normally accepted in the area where the house was built, creating a deep relationship between the contemporary living demands and the innate qualities of Euganean hilly landscape.
The project is presented as a pure prism, skillfully integrated in the ground, with its facets reflecting an asymmetrical balance of solid and empty spaces developing visual and formal dynamics between the interior and the environment surrounding the house.
The house is developed in three levels with internal square-shaped side of 12m.
The basement permeates and shapes the ground with retaining walls and patios made of exposed concrete, which, extending beyond the volume of the house, determine the basement structure by modeling the preexisting uneven hilly terrain.
The garage entrance and the entry to other service rooms are here collocated , a well-equipped hallway keeps them apart from the recreational room, a large multipurpose space which is directly connected to the semi-subterranean garden by a wide glass wall southward oriented.
On the ground floor there are the rooms reserved to the family life, they are surrounded by large windows looking at the garden and lightened up by overhead light sources. They develop, without interruption, all around the linear staircase nestled in two wall units leading to the living area southward and to the sleeping area northward.

On the first floor the four bedrooms, all provided with private bathroom and a corner loggia, are arranged in a spiral geometry, surrounding the common space, right in the middle, illuminated by a square pyramidal skylight put in the center of the ceiling.
The choice of the materials used for building the house was based, in addition to an incessant research to create specific relationships between the use of inner spaces and the ever-changing sources of natural light, on the desire to use, as far as possible and upon their availability, biocompatible materials made of renewable raw materials, free from harmful emissions, with low content of primary energy, recyclable, durable and stable over time .
These guidelines have had a central role throughout the development and implementation of the project as the idea to realize this kind of work is also due a deep awareness of the importance of using materials that can ensure the safety as well as the comfort of the living environment.
The use of cork, clay and wood have also facilitated the simplification of the use of electrical installations in operation and avoided an excess in technology; a further contribution to tangible reduction of CO2 emissions and running costs of the house was given by the placement of special windows expressly designed for solar radiation control and for the proper internal natural ventilation.

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Casa nei Colli

Galzignano Terme, Italy

Casa nei Colli

Galzignano Terme, Italy

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