The main idea implies the definition of  a new urban green block, where two main actors, the old existing villa and the new building are in constant dialogue. The urban empty space between these two elements is thought as a new public space, a public garden, for the all neighborhood.

The project is completed with the small church on the north side and a dependence on the south side. The parking lot is designed as the atrium of the new urban block, with its greenery and trees. New building and parking lot form a hinge where is located the entrance.

The typology of the building presents a central core containing the vertical circulations and services. This conformations allows for space rationalization and cost containment.

As in other projects, sustainability is a key issue: Minergie standard (LEED), common spaces, greenery, solar panels and sustainable heating systems, energy saving certifications and respect of given budget.

40. Upgrade of primary schools / Savosa / 2009-2015

62. House G3 / Bissone / 2012-2013

05. House BB / Arogno / 2012 – 2016

The typology is that of a court house, spatiality that is found in the houses of the adjacent core, interpreted in a contemporary key as a response to the situation of proximity to a road, to a view that does not play a fundamental role and to the need for intimacy part of the clients. The few openings towards the outside frame scraps of landscape and take them inside the house; the inner courtyard merges between exterior and court space in a spatial continuum. This type of internal patio construction is in analogy with those found in the nearby historical center of the country. The surface of the ground floor is substantially divided in equal parts between internal rooms and the courtyard partially covered: this decision underlines the great importance of this environment that is able to connect spatially and visually all the rooms of the house. Both on the ground and on the first floor there are two large windows overlooking the internal courtyard, the windows on the facade open the kitchen and the living room on the surrounding landscape of the vineyards.

07. House CZ / Melano / 2006-2008

The house is located between a farm road and a river and extends over the entire length of the lot for 56 meters, perpendicular to the waterway. This placement confers an order and a clear ending to the messy built-up behind.

 

The house relates with the surrounding both to a territorial scale with the mountains and the valley behind it and to a more near staircase with the garden and the vineyards. Deliberately, instead, the view is closed at an intermediate distance where the cantonal road and the nearby buildings are located.

 

This idea is realized through a sequence of spaces developed on one or two levels that are articulated with characteristics of orientation, of proportions, of lights, of different atmosphere. The architectural elements that bind all the spaces are the plinth that unifies the entire construction and the beam-roof that gives an image linked to the rural context where the roof covers both internal and external environments.