2002

RESIDENCES IN THE MOUNTAINS

project for a 22-home residential complex located in the woods - Pelago (Florence)  

The goal of this project is to use simple, easily-recognized, homogeneous and repeatible construction typologies to make a compact settlement, with no dispersal around the territory.

To better represent the house archetype, we conceived of an elementary cell, a classic house with a double sloping roof, very similar to the kind drawn by children.

These elementary cells have been brought together in such a way as to create visual tunnels from the outside which allow a view of the valley below.

The buildings' planimetric placement, in an eliptical form, follows the topographical curves of the hillside and emphasizes the view of the woods and the valley on the convex side. Simultaneously it confers more intimacy and meditation on the inner concave side.