RESTORATION OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BUILDING IN THE ANCIENT CONTRADA DEL POZZO AND RECONFIGURATION
The building is located in the original nucleus of a town center. The transformation of the interior spaces, distorted over time, is based on the idea of restoring the original distribution and recovering the typological layout of the house and the proportions of the original rooms.
On the ground floor, which looks out on the portico, there is a living room with a painted vault, a kitchen with a barrel vault and a study. On the first floor, which faces the loggia, there are bedrooms with its own bathroom. The attic is converted for residential use, taking advantage of the existing dormer windows.
The project introduces a new cast-iron spiral staircase to connect the parts that remain detached from the rest of the building.
The construction choices and new finishes are meant to promote traditional local materials and techniques and to bring back the original character that many of the spaces had lost.
On the main front, the project provided for the demolition of all superfetations. The eliminations of these elements made the geometry of the facade recognizable again, and the restoration of the opening from the stairwell to the garden.
The outdoor space, seen as a contemporary reinterpretation of a Baroque garden, is designed through a rigorous geometry that contrasts straight lines on the terminal edge of the space with organic forms placed in the central part of the area.
The space of the loggia virtually expands into the green space, through an elliptical stone form that connects the 'mineral' element with the 'vegetable' one.
On the side of the exedra, located on the eastern side of the boundary wall, a horizontal wood floor is built, at the ends of which the new volumes in wood and glass are realized, in coherence with the typology of the garden pavilions.