Sorrentino House

Casa Sorrentino was created as a continuum of the pre-existing building: an old building whose construction system is based on the use of tuff, a local limestone. Consistent with this construction system, this new dwelling has been built to accommodate and integrate the contemporary way of life with traditional materials and construction techniques. The house looks like a monolith with pure forms, interrupted only by the presence of two cracks on the elevations representing the passages from the external to the internal space. Access to the dwelling on the main front is filtered through a vestibule that marks the passage from exterior to interior and from a public dimension to a private one. In plan, this element defines a cut that acts as a joint between the old building and the new. The structure made entirely of stone, in order to meet current earthquake requirements, incorporates a system of white reinforced concrete ring beams. As with the stone, these elements are designed to respond to a static function and have a formal value that characterises the architecture.