Article source: NAUTA architecture & research

This two family house presents a traditional local row house scheme, introvert on the street and open on the back garden. The central rooms, living and dining areas, suffered great lack of light, due to their distance from the two facades.

The ground floor rooms presented existing vaulted ceilings, very valuable for their architecture and space effect. This scheme imposed the preservation of the enfilade of vaulted spaces, yet needing a strategy to avoid the box in box effect and extend multiple internal flows and views.

Image Courtesy © Roberto Micoccio

• Architects: NAUTA architecture & research
• Project: Exercise with the arches n˚1
• Location: Avetrana (Taranto), Italy
• Photography: Roberto Micoccio
• Structural engineer: F. Galati
• Site area: 185 sqm
• Gross Floor area: 353 sqm
• Completion: 2013/02