Architecture, houses, are like novels: some long and rewritten several times, others very short.
Novels written by several hands, partly by its users and partly by its designers.
The inhabitants of these places are authors and at the same time protagonists of the tale while the architects, after all, are only extras.
And it is with this awareness that we like to look at the project especially in renovations of houses that preserve a historical memory.
Understanding the past in order to be able to remove the superfluous and reconnect with history through abstraction.
"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that we like the night because it suppresses details to a minimum, just as our memory does." Jorge Oteiza
Architecture becomes narrative and every space in the house reveals a story where past and new visions mingle.
The relationship between history and matter is silent but powerful.
The history of the place emerges powerfully when the material, the surface, the patina, the imperfections are perceived.
Most of the original floors have been retained and restored.
While in the refurbished spaces (service areas such as bathrooms and kitchen) microcement was used; a homogeneous material, capable of being a suitable background for antique textures and surfaces.
The colours chosen for the new resins echo the tones of the Palladian marble in the corridor.
Terracotta is complementary to the green of the palm trees in the 19th-century courtyard, while powdery is complementary to the dark green of the evergreens visible from the girls' room.
This chromatic complementarity creates a continuous outward attraction by including outward glances in the composition of the interior.
