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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. ALPS VILLA in Brescia, Italy by Camillo Botticini ArchitettoNovember 27th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Camillo Botticini Architetto The house stands on a clearing in the trees, 700 meters above sea level, close to the “Passo del Cavallo”, next to a road that connects Trompia Valley and Sabbia Valley on a steep slope. The landscape is characterized by an open valley to the south and a frame of green mountains with peaks of dolomite rock to the north.  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi
 Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi We are still in a place close to the urban noise but at the same time far away, where the aroma of mountain herbs and grazing sheep seem to have stopped time; and this determines which condition founding: a primary relationship between the artificial intervention and nature.  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi The relationship with the ground and the landscape are the material that construct the project: the ground by communicating with the project operates a principle of “rootedness” into the slope to the north, where the house seems to bite the mountain, and the principle of “emancipation “to the south, with an overhang that throw the home to the valley.  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi To the north, a courtyard open to the Mount allows you to look at the profile of the dolomite rock spiers that at 1200 m above sea level continues the green plane tilted so that virtually close the fourth side of the house. To the south a large window splayed mediates between the interior of the living and landscape, the light coming from the south continued with a bay window to the north patio.  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi Lightweight, integration at the site, opening and closing, no exhibitionism, connection to foundational principle generated by the performance of the ground and the internal organization of space, producing an idea of domestic that offers a contemporary housing responsive to the site.  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi These are the elements that make up the set, with a will of harmony and tension, looking for an architectural shape by the strong expressive intensity, but at the same time a shape of balance and rooting in the use of natural materials such as oxidized copper and wood.  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi The house has an irregular plan shaped like a “C” with a patio where the fourth side is made from a green plane that delivers the planimetric structure that generates the spaces of the house, creating three bodies with variable height increasing from north-est, where the volume disappears by integrating into the ground. The first body has three bedrooms, two of them with windows facing the patio, through the bathroom; while the third bedroom has a subtracting that opens the master bedroom and its bathroom to the east into the clearing. To the south of the second body with a height between 3.50 and 4.50 meters introduces the living room, and open space suspended between the patio and landscape. Its side closed is characterized by the presence of a fireplace that ends with a the same size the south window. The living room continues with the dining area, to the west with the double height body: a continuous space, characterized by a structured cover consists by triangular planes, inside which is recessed the continuous lighting system.  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi The highest part of the body in the west is characterized by a loft under which it has the kitchen opens to the patio, while above it there is a space for the study. It creates an integrated fluid area and open to the outside, simultaneously protected, almost closed on the east and west sides (where they open the window as an excavation of the room and bathroom).  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi Important the levels of access. The main, covered by the overhang of three meters of living, is placed in the to the south-east. Upon entering there is a ramp parallel to a great room with fireplace. Here goes a ladder to the dining room level and then to the mezzanine, where a skylight opens to the sky at north.  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi Access by road has two possibilities.  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi  Image Courtesy © Niccolò Galeazzi  Image Courtesy © Camillo Botticini Architetto  Image Courtesy © Camillo Botticini Architetto  Image Courtesy © Camillo Botticini Architetto
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