The project dates back to 1982 and it was my first major project, because studied and designed everything himself, even following the construction work, these things in the light of today I can no longer afford because of the multiple commitments. I must say that the experience has been very positive since I did an intense practice that has served me for my future work.
The design concept draws on the historical memory of the place, as the town has a medieval castle, which is located exactly on the hill of Mount Monforte, a rocky hill where in the Middle Ages, the Vassallo, built his family roccaforte.La Campobasso, so I designed this villa was one of the most iconic and very profound in the contemporary cultural debate .Non was difficult to communicate my intentions gold project. lexicon The composition, drew origins by two architects, which I much admired and I had studied during his university years in Florence, the first was Louis Kahn, according to Carlo Scarpa. I decided that the product should have a dialogue with the other, much more representative of the castle Monforte, who insisted on a hill front . I studied an architecture circumspect and introverted, closed to the outside but inside as well as the open square of 'weapons of the castle. References to the number of elements of the two great Architects are clear and obvious, so the use of materials., The house has a cubic shape, even if on the cross does not keep the same proportions than parallel with the territory. The composition is deliberately symmetrical, since here in Italy, as elsewhere in the Western world, was being debated fully in the post-modern movement. La reading and citations of classical architecture, are obvious. The compositional form is a rectangle that is repeated at the four vertices of the plant, leaving the central area much wider to accommodate areas: input and vertical connection. The building stands on a very steep ground, so it has a completely underground, which contains the cellar and the reservoir for the pool, a basement, and downstream opens at garden level with large windows upstream side is the garage area, which is accessed via a ramp, retaining wall which was inspired by the metopes and triglyphs of the frieze of Parthenon . Al ground floor, upstream location is the entrance to the valley while the living area, which is still panoramic windows. Il first floor contains the sleeping area and almost all shielded on three sides, open valley. The large windows are designed to penetrate inside the dwelling, as much as possible, the solar rays, the heat of which accumulates on the walls of the shimmed bedrooms and is released in the evening hours . This is based on studies of energy passive, bioclimatic architecture. The villa, although having an internal configuration completely open, the winter is very warm, despite being located seven hundred meters above sea level, in the summer, thanks to the study of energy, you can easily create air flow cool by opening windows on opposite walls depending on the wind blowing outside.
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