The relationship with the surroundings is the main goal that Camillo Botticini faces in the design of this private single house. The design of all the façades seeks or avoids light depending on the orientation, with an irregular "C" plan scheme with a courtyard as a central space. Different visions of the surrounding from the inner spaces constitute an active part of the design.
Description of the project by Camillo Botticini Architetto
The house stands on a clearing in the trees, 700 meters above sea level, close to the "Passo del Cavallo", next to a road that connects Trompia Valley and Sabbia Valley on a steep slope. The landscape is characterized by an open valley to the south and a frame of green mountains with peaks of dolomite rock to the north.
We are still in a place close to the urban noise but at the same time far away, where the aroma of mountain herbs and grazing sheep seem to have stopped time; and this determines which condition founding: a primary relationship between the artificial intervention and nature.
The relationship with the ground and the landscape are the material that construct the project: the ground by communicating with the project operates a principle of "rootedness" into the slope to the north, where the house seems to bite the mountain, and the principle of "emancipation "to the south, with an overhang that throw the home to the valley.
To the north, a courtyard open to the Mount allows you to look at the profile of the dolomite rock spiers that at 1200 m above sea level continues the green plane tilted so that virtually close the fourth side of the house. To the south a large window splayed mediates between the interior of the living and landscape, the light coming from the south continued with a bay window to the north patio.
The house has an irregular plan shaped like a "C" with a patio where the fourth side is made from a green plane that delivers the planimetric structure that generates the spaces of the house, creating three bodies with variable height increasing from north-est, where the volume disappears by integrating into the ground.
Important the levels of access. The main, covered by the overhang of three meters of living, is placed in the to the south-east. Upon entering there is a ramp parallel to a great room with fireplace. Here goes a ladder to the dining room level and then to the mezzanine, where a skylight opens to the sky at north.
