VILLA N in Arezzo, Italy by ARCHITETTURA MATASSONI

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Given the low quality of the surrounding urban fabric and its proximity, Villa N has been endowed with a rather introverted character.

A limiting element that, as often happens, has then become the starting point for establishing the main organizational strategy of the project; it is based on a central lung that should have guaranteed a large breath to the living area, despite this initial condition of compression.

This large and three-level space has been closed and only partially covered; it was carefully defined so as to be perceived as a “collector” into which the interior spaces flow without detachment.

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• Architects: ARCHITETTURA MATASSONI
• Project: VILLA N
• Location: Arezzo, Italy
• Software used: Autocad

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Thanks to it, the whole living area acquires an almost monumental character; it seems the result of the transformation of a disused building, originally intended for a productive purpose and with dimensions adequate to it.

If it were not for the extremely refined appearance of all the surfaces, in fact we could almost think of an operation of industrial archeology; for this reason, at the time, we insisted a lot to use more raw materials and dark colors, but the customer did not understand this solution.

The resulting sensation is difficult to convey through photography.

The sleeping area on the first floor is very simple; it has a more private connotation, in a certain sense atmospheric, due to its sensitivity to changes in natural light.

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From a compositional point of view the volumes of the villa have been gradually deconstructed to the point of dematerializing the architecture and reaching the edges of the small lot; in this way we wanted to circumvent the problem of mass concentration in the center with the formation of useless perimeter areas: a problem to manage if the volume is abundant and the surface of the lot is scarce as in this case .

The result is a sequence of connected and well-defined external spaces as environments.

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In this progression both the architectural and natural elements form an artificial micro landscape, a very structured garden that can be traveled in many ways.
Ultimately, the villa is an architectural object, necessarily closed to relations with the context on the urban scale, but open to the landscape scale thanks to fragmented forms but which should have been able to react in some way with the territory; or at least the intent was this.

Finally it must be said that the linguistic choice was influenced from the beginning by the preference expressed by the Client for right angles, flat surfaces and the clarity of the forms; a very heavy compositional constraint that pushed us to try to overcome its static nature disarticulating the masses.

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Tags: Arezzo, Italy

Categories: Autocad, House, Residential, Villa

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