Villa Tia

The Villa Tia project is located in a hilly area in the center of Tuscany near Pisa. The project area offers a suggestive panoramic view towards the valley surrounded by greenery. The idea behind this work is to create a building that is able to touch us emotionally and is able to create those emotions that we inexplicably feel when faced with the quality of certain built spaces, strongly linking the project to the place, without necessarily referring to or reinterpreting the typology. construction and materials of the traditional Tuscan rural house. The relationship we seek in the project and which is capable of generating this atmosphere is between architecture, place and man and refers to the bond that the built space is able to establish with the land and vegetation, with natural light and views of the landscape , with materials and sounds, with colors and objects. Therefore, seeking the quality of the project, thanks to the emotional atmosphere generated by an architectural space with a simple shape, but by complex internal spaces capable of capturing images of the surrounding natural space, creating a building that stands out from the external, organic and natural landscape , through architectural forms derived from pure geometries, composed of a few materials in a single chromatic trend. The project takes shape by exploiting the natural slope of the land: the sleeping area is underground and opens only to the south-west onto the valley; above, there is the living area, made up of a single rectangular volume, which follows the east-west direction, it extends towards the valley across the entire area and constitutes a suggestive visual telescope that leads the gaze from the internal space to the countryside; above, a small translated volume, supported, highlights the entrance to the house and defines the formal emergence of the building.

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Notes:

• ARCHITECTURE PUBLICATIONS:

ITALIAN CULTURE MAGAZINE OF THE PROJECT N° 37. DECEMBER 2008, PAGES 34-35

• ADDITIONAL NOTES:

2nd PLACE ARCHÉS ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2008. REPORTED IN THE "LIVING" CATEGORY FOR THE 2009 ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE GOLD MEDAL COMPETITION. INCLUDED AMONG THE "BEST INTERNATIONAL WORKS" AT THE BARBARA CAPOCCHIN INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD .