ARCHITECTS
Toti Semerano
AREA
4042 m²
YEAR
2008
PHOTOGRAPHS
Stefano Zanardi, Nicolò Gandolfi, Carossio
NURSERY
Vivaibambù
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Toti Semerano
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Givierre
INSTALLATIONS
Salentina plants
METALLIC WORKS
Metasistemi
GLASS WORKS
Vetreria Calasso
METALLIC WORKS
Metasistemi
ARTWORK
Hidetoshi Nagasawa
CATEGORY
Houses, Residential
LOCATION
Casarano, Italy
GLASS WORKS
Vetreria Calasso
MANUFACTURERS
Agape, Antonio Lupi, Arclinea, Artemide, Depadova,
Falper, Gervasoni, Modulnova, Viabizzuno, Zucchetti, Aura, Aura Illumination, Bontempi, FIR
DESIGN TEAM
Stefano Antonello, Giuseppe Apollonio, Mauro Aschedamini, Carolina Bozzi Colonna, Valeria Crasto, Luigi Cremonesi, Ludovica Fava, Iride Filoni, Clémentine Gautreau, Joao Loureiro, Marta Montinari, Andrea Piscopo, Sergio Rollo, Simone Romaro, Giuseppe Scarabello, Gunar Thom, Caterina Zaccaria, Stefano Zanardi, Salvatore Musarò, Stefano Sabato
Text description provided by architect.
Turning a country house, lost in the Agro di Casarano from an anonymous building without quality in a meeting place between art and architecture was not a recent request.
It would have been much simpler to demolish the existing one and redesign the whole lot from scratch, instead we chose not to make a clean sweep.
But rather to accept the actual state as a starting point: the old factory building is It was wrapped in a new wrapping.
Once crossed the threshold of the internal enclosure, the discovery resumes in the succession of private gardens, which are an integral part of the interior space.
Each room in the house corresponds to one of these small, communicating but visually separate gardens.
That each room has its natural continuation outside, without affecting its exclusivity and privacy. Each garden has its own precise connotation of color and smell.
A white wooden lining that redefines the volume, unifying it, and redraws the score of the facades.
In some places the lining is detached from the house and becomes a fence. The house houses an important collection of works by the Japanese artist Hidetoshi Nagasawa.
Their installation, both inside the building and in the garden, is an integral and foundational part of the concept of domestic space.
