Ceno House

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.) characteristics, has allowed for the shaping of an architecture in close relationship with the context, avoiding aprioristic choices that usually determine projects dropped from above and alienated from the place. The volume was thus subdivided into several volumes, which in a horizontal development follow the natural course of the land, integrating with it. Each volume accommodates a different living function within it, so that even the users themselves, moving from one body to the next, experience the surrounding landscape as a part of the dwelling. Arranged along the east-west solar axis, a path traverses and distributes the open and closed spaces, culminating in an infinity pool, from which one can admire the landscape of the valley below as if suspended in air.