Casalgrande padana

The project is located at 125 km south of Lima city in a beach named “Las Palmeras”. The house is organized into three levels: the first level contains all service areas, garage and guest rooms; the second level comprises the house principal rooms; and the third one is intended to be the social areas: kitchen, living-room, dining-room, terrace and swimming pool. The underlying conceptual proposal seeks to reduce to the minimum the architectonic shapes and forms so as to concentrate all the sight-seeing force on the upper volume, principal figure which seems to be wishing to float over the other levels of the house. More

A few miles from Turin, behind the Superga hill, on a hilltop that is a foretaste of the plateau that separates the main city of Piedmont from Langhe and Monferrato, stands the elegant silhouette of Castello di Montaldo. A stern castle, its first stones laid in the year 1011, built at the request of Landolfo, Bishop of Turin. The remains, dating back to the 18th century, are instead the result of the many changes the castle experienced over the years. In this case, it was Count Carlo Emanuele Ferrero d’Ormea who made the major renovation works, turning it into a sumptuous villa as his main dwelling. As it changed hands, the castle was also inhabited by a few religious orders, then in recent times it was converted into a hotel and spa tha... More