Tuscanyhouse

At Casa al Pozzo, we set out to create more than just a house, we envisioned a living space that would exist in quiet harmony with the Tuscan landscape. From the start, our goal was to design a home that felt like a natural extension of its surroundings, both respectful and deeply connected to the land. Caption We followed the contours of the site to shape a building that nestles gently into the hillside, allowing the architecture to adapt to the terrain rather than impose upon it. This approach fostered a strong sense of flow between indoors and out, where every space opens out to the landscape and draws the eye to nature. Caption Sustainability was a driving force behind our choices. We integrated photovoltaic panels subtly in... More

The house is located on the slope of a hill facing south and overlooking Lake Trasimeno. With an elongated shape, it has two lateral appendages: to the west the volume turns towards the ground creating a basement floor surmounted by a terrace, to the east it rises in a small tower. Caption All the facades are clad in rough gray stone crossed by horizontal brick strips, in dialogue to the facade of a church located in the hamlet adjacent to the site. The external stairways are in basalt stone and brick. The lighting of the steps is placed inside the custom designed iron balustrades. The entrance to the house is created in a niche on the north-facing wall in correspondence with the garage and driveway. The wall on which the entrance do... More

The property, an antique Tuscan farm whose original nucleus dates back to 1712, lies near Casale Marittimo, a small town of the Alta Maremma, located 10 km inland from the sea. The challenge was to introduce and involve minimal and contemporary architectural elements in an environment rich in nature and tradition. The solution adopted to achieve this objective has been to maintain as much as possible the vernacular architecture of Maremma using local technologies and materials for the external envelope, juxtaposing minimal design and clean interiors. The help of local workers during the construction phase has been crucial for plugging the building in the landscape and environment context and to respect local architectural traditions. Act... More

Casa OTThe house is located on the first floor of an eighteenth-century building, located in a small village in the Tuscan Apennines, situated on the high valley of the Sillaro river.The intervention recovers and renews the space exalting its original structure, which, over the centuries, has undergone numerous transformations dictated by the various functions that the building has received. In fact, the uses that it hosted are different: from inn to post office to tavern, up to having, after 2000, an exclusive residential use.From a first reading, the importance of restoring its original conformation to the space immediately emerged, eliminating the internal partitions, which altered the layout and the volumes.An approach as philological a... More