Montottone is a bed and breakfast for a Venetian client near a small town in the Marches, in Italy. The project takes the form of the barchessa, an agricultural appendage of 16th Century Venetian villas. A barchessa without a villa, the project enacts a period in the nineteenth century when, following a tax on villas, many of the main structures were demolished, leaving only the rustic form of the barchessa in the landscape. This historical reference is complicated by its programmatic mutation from empty storage to the individuated privacy of rooms. To accomplish this, the project makes use of pochée in what would otherwise be a planar architecture. These volumetric operations are done along the lines of the stereotomic perspectival constructions of the quattrocento, particularly those of Piero della Francesca.
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