Casa y
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Project • By anonimous • Residential Landscape
Casa Y
A concrete box is buried on site in order to obtain more privacy in the public spaces. The crystal façade on the south side allows light to enter during all day providing different degrees of luminosity.The empty space in one-and-half-height changes when one start to descend. The kitchen-top emerges from the stair steps and faces the dinning room and the end of a more intimate and dim living room.A corridor begins in the access and is placed above the cupboard before reaching the bedroom, which floats over the empty space crossing the crystal façade, and flies towards the garden looking for the view of the sweetgum-tree on the west.The bedroom splits itself from the edge generating a strip of light that descends all the way to the living ro... More
Project • By F:L architetti • Private Houses
CASA Y
Set on the hills just outside the city of Turin CASA Y is a family house designed for a professional couple with 3 children. Clients’ needs were very large spaces devoted to family life and a low-impact energy and house. Tucked into the hillside, this discreet volume consists in the juxtaposition of two simple parallelepipeds, one in fair- faced concrete and the other in glass covered with cor-ten steel.
Concrete and cor-ten are a stylistic choice and a functional one, the answer to the client’s need of ease of maintenance and long-term durability. The living area with the kitchen forms a large environment whose ample loggia projects outwards, overlooking the valley. The rest of the building is nestled into the sloping terrain. A long na... More
Project • By anonimous-led • Housing
Casa Y
A concrete box is buried on site in order to obtain more privacy in the public spaces. The crystal façade on the south side allows light to enter during all day providing different degrees of luminosity.
The empty space in one-and-half-height changes when one start to descend. The kitchen countertop emerges from the stair steps and faces the dinning room and the end of a more intimate and dim living room.
A corridor begins in the access and is placed above the cupboard before reaching the bedroom, which floats over the empty space crossing the crystal façade, and flies towards the garden looking for the view of the sweetgum-tree on the west.
The bedroom splits itself from the edge generating a strip of light that descends all the way to... More