casa duo embraces its city and pure landscapes
Within the Tuscan countryside, Italian design studio PAN Architetti unifies two adjoining properties into one morphological composition that seamlessly embraces its pure and concrete context. Reviving the unique historic constructions’ simplistic typology, Casa DUO reveals a program which homes two particular person households , bearing in mind their distinct up to date life whereas making certain every part’s privateness is totally maintained. Alongside the outside the residence stays delicate to its context, with the street-facing entrance boasting a white stone and brick façade that integrates with the encircling city panorama, whereas the rear façade opens out onto an idyllic winery.
all photographs by Andrea Wyner
revealing a spatial and typological duality
Starting their restoration, the crew at PAN Architetti have been met with a simplistic typology attribute of the modest building that was carried out in Versilia between the Nineteen Twenties and Fifties. To be able to improve and unite the 2 particular person constructions, the architects generated an optimized morphological-architectural reference to a dualistic character and a recent inside rearrangement. Dealing with the streetscape, at first look Casa DUO seems to be an introverted, nearly ascetic residence, with a minimalist stone and brick façade punctuated solely by slim shuttered home windows. The house’s rear, nonetheless, transforms the non-public relational area into one that’s extroverted, with massive home windows that mix the construction into the pure panorama of the olive grove forward. The 2 residential sections step out onto a typical decked patio which affords picturesque views of the surroundings and transitions the ‘ephemeral’ boundary between the within and out of doors.
pan architetti unites two constructions as one
Though united morphologically, the 2 homes stay divided by a vertical ‘acupuncture’ to answer the completely different spatial wants of the 2 residing households. Inside Casa DUO, the design and program reveal an identical duality to its exterior. ‘Whereas from the skin one would count on an inside typical of the outdated constructions with load-bearing partitions, when you cross the doorway thresholds the area explodes and expands into a very up to date spatiality with broad open versatile areas and double heights,’ writes PAN Architetti.
Defining the interior area is a minimal coloration and materials palette, exuding pure tones and glossy textures. Sensible surfaces product of uncovered and polished concrete, birch plywood, oak, and stone function all through the house, the supplies partly repurposed from the unique website. Preserving the outdated DNA of the constructing and injecting it into the brand new, the constant design language establishes an emotional connection between the household artefacts throughout the 2 sections.
