MASSERIA DAGILUPI

Typology
Receptive

Place
Ostuni-Italy

Year
2018

The project aims is to redevelop and transform an abandoned ancient farmhouse into a receptive structure, located between the city of Ostuni and the coast, in a relevant environmental context characterized by a centuries-old olive grove. The rural layout is spread over three levels, ascribable to the typology of the “compact farmhouse” flanked by a courtyard circumscribed by high dry stone walls: it is made up of a building, on two levels, in masonry from rooms vaulted in irregular stone blocks; on the lower level there is an ancient “articulated type” oil mill, entirely excavated in the calcarenitic geological bank. The intervention strategy foresees the re-functionalization of the farm complex through punctual and widespread interventions relating to restoration and conservation using a contemporary language, without distorting the original structure and keeping the identity character intact. Particular attention has been paid to the treatment of the surfaces which, while integrating the different materials that form the body of the building, guaranteeing an overview, allowing the different textures of materials and the different construction techniques that have followed one another over time to be read and recognized. preserving the traces and enhancing the evolutionary reading of the building and the historical stratification of the interventions. Three independent housing units have been created in the building, each with a small courtyard of relevance, which guarantees a relationship between internal and external spaces, reinterpreting the typical characteristics of Mediterranean houses. With the recovery of the pre-existing historic courtyard, the common areas of reception, living and services on the ground floor are also in close dialogue with the surrounding landscape.