Double House San Marcellino

San Marcellino, Italy

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Double House San Marcellino

San Marcellino, Italy

Firm

iodicearchitetti

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2009

Designer: Giuseppe
Iodice, Francesco Iodice, Marcello Silvestre

Double House is
located on the outskirts of the province of Caserta: it is an almost alien
presence, in comparison to the built up area where it stands. It is a kind of
constructive liberation, able to testify an alternative way to build;
intelligently and respectful to the surrounding environment. The building much
like a sculptural work is able to interact with both light and shadow; the
ground floor is flooded with natural light, the first floor receives its fair
share and sufficient light, enough to act as a guide, also filters to the underground floor, while
perfect interaction develops with calibrated volumes between mass and light
able to generate a play of dense, well-defined shadows. The essential rigor of
clean, linea geometry and the absolute negation of detail; no frame, no moulding,
no mark are seen to compromise the compositional unity, tirelessly sought, or
to alter the equilibrium of full and empty spaces between protruding volumes
and space which is left free to vibrate in the natural light. The various parts
of the building are organized around a number of courtyards and the delimiting
wall seems just to be a screen. In addition, it expresses the materialization
of a “limit” which makes space visible through the framing of a patio. Another
fundamental element of this project is the direct continuity between the
interior and exterior spaces. The large glass floor-to-ceiling windows of the
ground floor, have the ability of putting the living area, a single open space, indirect continuity
with the exterior areas. The use of glass for the exterior walls aims to
dematerialize them and puts them in contrast with the compact volumes of the
first floor which house the bedrooms. The two floors of the building are
specially connected in correspondence to the dual height atrium and feature a
sky-light made up of large beams in exposed reinforced concrete. The building
is marked by a clear separation between the free layout of the interior space
and the structural elements. The latter consist in a series of pillars made of steel and a double wall made of exposed
reinforced concrete that “joins and separates” the two housing units.

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Double House San Marcellino

San Marcellino, Italy

Double House San Marcellino

San Marcellino, Italy

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