CASA CENO

Typology
Residential

Place
Brindisi-Italy

Year
2011

The search for a dialogue with the surrounding environment marked the design choice. The understanding of the place, through careful observation of material (morphology, nature of the terrain, vegetation,etc.) and immaterial (atmospheres, sensations, sounds, etc.) characters, has allowed to shape an architecture in close relationship with the context, avoiding aprioristic choices that usually determine projects dropped from above and alienated from the place. Thus the volumetry was divided into several building bodies, which in a horizontal development follow the natural course of the land, integrating with it. Each volume accommodates a different housing function within it, making sure that even the users themselves, moving from one body to another, experience the surrounding landscape as a part of the dwelling. Arranged along the east-west solar axis, a path traverses and distributes open and enclosed spaces, culminating in an infinity pool, from which one can admire the landscape of the valley below as if suspended in air.