







Location: Castelnovo, Italy
Architect: Andrea Oliva , Andrea Pelati
Material: Brick
Completion date: 2009
Built area: 390m2
Photographs: Kai-Uwe Schulte-Bunert
Collaborators: Luca Paroli, David Zilioli
Architect: Andrea Oliva
Story:
To the borders of the country of Castelnovo Sotto, beetween the stream Morella and a roman road, in a landscape context characterized from channels, ditches, rows, shrubby stains, gardens, villas and agricultural houses it places the “House on the Morella”. Its typological value is defined by its relationship with the road and as an integral part of the landscape; this is achieved through the enhancement of internal and external viewpoints and through the interaction between solids and voids (porches and windows). The relationships between architecture and landscape, closeness and distance, public and private and the observer and the observatory are also considered. Inserted between rural landscape and observer to 60mt from the road, suspended by the ground to protection of the tall stratum of superficial wather and to memory of the installations “terramare”, the residence is composed of two staggered elements to northeast: the porch or climatic mitigator and the housing space or insulating body.
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