antonio saporito architecture + design florence

Sammer hause in Calabria

2007 Calabria, Italy

Reconstruction, previous demolition of an existing building.

Description The idea of project, seen the rectangular conformation of the lottery she has been that to position the building on the border from a side so that to have the distance of the 5,00 meters from the opposite border and to realize so a principal façade of the building, so that it enjoyed of a perspective sight without solution of continuity from the road, to create a new urban scene with the context of the place and that it retrained him around. This choice has produced a principal façade of rectangular form prepared on the side that looks out upon the road of access on whose a portion is set to projecting and parallel triangular form to the border marked by a wall in c.to. existing, that (also it of triangular but opposite form) underlines the access to the residence with his course.
The planimetria of project is constituted therefore from a rectangular body slightly stretched in the short sides for the whole volume, while the coverage results tapered and projecting on the principal front. The building body introduces on the principal façade an ample door-window on a side, followed by an opening that it marks the door of entry to the residence and that it results protected by the projecting body of the coverage where it creates suggestive effects of heights and voids. Particular attention has been paid to the sketch of the external setup thought to being observed from the principal road that results to be to a great quota in comparison to the area of intervention.
The building is constituted by a terrestrial plan and a soototetto the two connected by a small staircase. To the plain earth the entry is found, the zone day and a room, the two vain habitable they are endowed with hygienic service and in the zone (open-space) stay lunch it is anticipated an angle cooking.
To the plain garret they are situated the vain closet. distributed around a skylight and the openings of the small terrace that it assures the transversal ventilation of the garret.
The coverage of the building is type tilted fit to allow the normal outflow of the meteoric waters.