Lorenzo Noè Studio di Architettura

Villa Molli

Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti

Villa Molli 

Lorenzo Guzzini

ARCHITECTS
Lorenzo Guzzini

ENGINEERING
Eng4arch

LEAD ARCHITECT
Lorenzo Guzzini

MANUFACTURERS
Ceadesign, Flaminia, Metra, Life Cucine

AREA
360 M²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Sala Comacina, Italy

CATEGORY
Houses

Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti

Text description provided by architect.

The context of the villa construction is Lake Como. The height of insertion of the building is the so-called “half hill” that is the part of mountain that is between the lake and the wood, the part that historically was to agricultural vocation.

Among the “new wood” it is still visible the past presence of man, who occupied that territory with stone houses.

Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti

The land in which the building is located has a double inclination: it hangs from west to east and from south to north and thanks to a retain wall above it, it passes the historic pedestrian street that connects most of the northern villages of the lake.

The project site has an amazing view of the Comacina island.

Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti

This view, however, does not face frontally, but is shifted to one side.

The set of perceptions during the survey generated the idea of composition of the building.

It consists of two higher volumes at the ends of the lot, connected on the ground floor by a large living room and on the first floor by a terrace.

Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti

The other idea that shaped the interior space and its perception was the respect of the slopes of the place that minimized the excavations.

In this way the indoor lounge is spread over 5 different levels, to generate different perceptions of the lake.

The choice to divide the building into two bodies was also to take advantage of the exposed sides to the island, keeping traditional holes on the lake front of the buildings, opening instead the north-east sides with more generous openings that frame the island and its colors that change continuously during the day.

Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti

Internally the tension and drama of the spatial telling is given by the passage between sleeping and living areas and by the continuous passage from light to shadow in the paths that make the spaces alive.

Finally, the detail of the cladding in stone owes much to the traditional constructions of the lake.

Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti

Also here the roof and facade merge and the mere gesture of tilting the slopes generates a variation on the theme, that transforms the two centimeters high facade splits into slabs.

Technological innovation, constructive tradition and invention of language try to merge in the best possible way.

Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti

The idea to rotate the volume of ninety degrees to each other, is given by the strong link with the place: on one side one of the two towers recalls the existing traditional house its neighbor, positioned in an anomalous way respect to the tradition, because it set in the mountain for the long side and not for the short one.

While the other closes the system, positioning itself in line with the tradition, with the head tympanum towards the lake.

Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti

The pool in the villa is not here a mere cliché, but it is the boundaries between the interior and the exterior landscape of Villa Molli.


Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti


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Villa Molli
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© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti
Villa Molli
© Giorgio Marafioti


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