In the landscape of the Euganean Hills, in Abano Terme, the Ville Thalia project reorganizes a plot through the composition of two distinct building bodies: a single-family residence and a two-family building. The intervention chooses a contemporary architectural language, based on the clarity of volumes and the control of proportions, distancing itself from traditional forms to assert its own geometric identity.
The genesis of the project starts from an essential and linear floor plan. To prevent this simplicity from translating into visual staticity, the design of the first-floor elevations introduces a decisive three-dimensional variation. The main envelope, characterized by sand-colored plaster, is interrupted and rhythmed by the insertion of tobacco oak wood elements. These inserts act as facade devices: used both as cladding and as brise-soleil, they provide depth and movement to the building, breaking the monotony of the wall box and generating a play of depths and shadows that animates the fronts. The anthracite-colored window frames act by contrast, drawing the openings with graphic precision.
The relationship between interior and exterior is mediated by the green appurtenant areas: each unit opens toward a private garden with a swimming pool, a natural extension of the domestic space that guarantees intimacy and breathing room.
In the interiors, the design narrative continues consistently through a search for material density. The clay-colored cement resin floor constitutes the unified and continuous base upon which fixed furnishings are set. Here, the color palette shifts toward dark and deep tones, in contrast with the luminosity of the external envelope. The partitions and boiseries are treated as architectural blocks in anthracite oak, whose texture dialogues with the preciousness of Emperador marble, used instead for key volumes and planes (the kitchen island, the back of the bookshelf, and the living room niche). The natural stone introduces a formal complexity that tempers the geometric rigor of the spaces. In Ville Thalia, the architecture seeks a scenographic effect, but at the same time constructs the quality of living through the control of light, material hierarchies, and the precision of detail.