Villa Anelli is an Inhabitable Work by Fausto Ferrara on Lake Garda, conceived through the relationship between construction, landscape, light, water and horizon.
The architecture emerges from the intersection of circular geometries and large suspended planes that construct thresholds, overhangs and spaces of different intensity. Form seeks a measured balance between weight and lightness, protection and openness, matter and landscape.
Toward the lake, the Work progressively opens through transparent surfaces, water and double-height spaces. The landscape enters the architecture as an active element: light, sky, distance and reflection participate in the measure of the spaces and in the perception of time.
Villa Anelli represents a central expression of Fausto Ferrara’s research into the Inhabitable Work, where interior and exterior, construction and nature, body and place become part of a necessary relationship.
In his critical reading of Ferrara’s architecture, Kenneth Frampton identifies Villa Anelli as one of the works in which the dialogue between construction and nature becomes particularly evident.
Fausto Ferrara — Author and Principal Architect
Lake Garda, Italy — Under construction