Giubiasco

Casa Paradiso

The intervention stems from the need to expand the living spaces of the ground floor of an existing house, adding a studio and a generous living area: the project involves the total refurbishment of the building in addition to the addition of volumes placed in continuity with the existing one.
The space to the northwest houses the new living room, entirely glazed, in relation to the outdoor space and the pool. On the side, adjacent to the new volume, a space is designed to accommodate a study room, also glazed, to replace the small garage.

The transparent architectures are simultaneously subtended by an exposed concrete plane – supported by blades at right angles to each other – that protects them, unifying the project in a single gesture and generating at the same time a series of new covered and uncovered outdoor spaces with different functions: entrance, porch, summer dining and access areas to the swimming pool and the new parking shed.

The design respects the existing building. The new architecture specifies the perimeter of the building by embracing the existing house, thus redefining, filtering, the relationship between indoor and outdoor spaces.