Inhabitable Work
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Project • By Fausto Ferrara • Private Houses
Villa Anelli
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 a... More
Project • By Fausto Ferrara • Museums
Museo della Luce
The Museum of Light is a Spatial Work by Fausto Ferrara conceived in Pucón, Chile.
The project does not treat light as a subject to be represented or as a scenographic effect. Light becomes a constructive material of architecture: it participates in the generation of form and makes perceptible the relationship between body, space, matter and time.
Water, sky and landscape are not a background to the building. They enter into the construction of the Work through reflections, openings, thresholds and variations of light, continuously transforming the perception of space. Architecture does not simply separate interior and exterior; it establishes a condition in which the boundary itself becomes a place of relation.
Matter acquires pr... More
Project • By Fausto Ferrara • Temples
Temple of Silence
The Temple of Silence is a Total Spatial Work by Fausto Ferrara, built in Torrenieri, Tuscany, as a private non-denominational sacred pavilion.
The Work originates from a radical question: can architecture exist beyond function and return human beings to a condition of presence? The Temple is neither a hall, a church nor a meditation facility understood as a service. It is a place in which architecture suspends purpose in order to preserve another condition of dwelling: silence, inoperativity and a return to oneself.
The entrance does not coincide with a façade. A large curved wall interrupts direct movement and transforms access into a sequence of thresholds. The body is required to slow down, deviate and momentarily lose its habi... More