Casa Di Sassuolo

Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali

CASA DI SASSUOLO

Enrico Iascone Architetti

LOCATION
Sassuolo, Italy

CATEGORY
Houses

PROJECT YEAR
2011

PHOTOGRAPHS
Daniele Domenicali

Text description provided by architect.

This family house is located in an extensive 1960s residential spillover area outside Sassuolo, Modena’s ceramic manufacturing heartland.

Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali

Its stand amid other detached houses surrounded by small gardens on a plot once occupied by a detached house, now demolished.

The high-end design used prefabbricated wooden elements for the aboveground storeys on a concrete undergruond level.

Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali

The thermal insulation and umidity control afforded, went a long way to obtaining class A energy certification.

Choosing joint-mounted prefabrcated wooden elements provided the advantagies of on-site safety and assembly occurancy, that cut overall worksite time considerably.

THE WHOLE ARCHITECTURE IS A PLAY ON OPPOSITE

A large apparently monolitic volume whose more secluded sides have different size glazed lights giving glimpses into deep interiors and providing views onto the outside.

Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali

The ventilated wall is clad with extra-thin laminam ceramic slabs. Its gray-black shades lending materiality and elegance.

The windows and door frames are in burnished bronze. The laminam ceramic sladdings cover both walls and roof, the latter also laid with photovoltaic film.

Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali

The programme try to be an example of how tecnology and sustainability can be happily combined with quality architecture and lifestyle. On the north side, the house present a compact front with the ground level parking area.

To the east , wooden floor terraces with glass parapets mediate the extend of daylight enetering the interior.

Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali

Throughout light, natural, zenital and artificial is the definig factor of the interior spatial design.

Led stripe lighting set above the windows creates a hiatus between indoors and outside, making the house glean like a diamond.

Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali


Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali
Casa Di Sassuolo
© Daniele Domenicali


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