Villa Anelli is a private Inhabitable Work by Fausto Ferrara on Lake Garda, a residential commission of more than 2,200 sqm for a high-level private client.

The project does not treat the lake as a mere view, but as an active part of the architecture. Water, light, air and reflections enter into the construction of space, while the relationship between interior and exterior is articulated through thresholds, protected terraces and spatial sequences designed to preserve privacy, intimacy and a direct relationship with the landscape.

Villa Anelli belongs to Ferrara’s research into the Inhabitable Work: the private house is not conceived as an object of representation or a display of status, but as a Work in which scale, construction and the value of the commission are subordinated to the quality of dwelling. The considerable dimension of the project does not generate exhibited monumentality; it is brought back to a precise measure between body, space, protection and place.

Kenneth Frampton explicitly cites Villa Anelli among the works in which Ferrara deepens the dialogue between construction and nature. In his reading, Ferrara’s architecture does not impose itself upon the landscape but becomes part of it, restoring a sense of measure through controlled surfaces, constructive precision and the relationship between matter, light and perception.

Villa Anelli therefore also demonstrates Ferrara’s capacity to undertake large-scale private residential commissions without reducing architecture to a real-estate product: more than 2,200 sqm are organized as a system of thresholds, protection, spatial continuity and a direct relationship with Lake Garda.