The client has at disposal a plot in a small buildable area at the western end of the urban area of Bologna, and he plans to build his future home in it.
The illustrated project is part of a small range of alternative drafts, radically different from each other, proposed to the future inhabitant to give him a way to evaluate the pros and cons focusing on his actual needs and predilections. An interesting and constructive dialogue between client and architect, and the pretext for a more general reflection on the typology of the suburban villa.
In this hypothesis, the wish to make the most of the surrounding garden suggested minimising the footprint on the ground by developing the house on four levels: the underground garage, the living area with kitchen on the ground floor, the rooms for the son and guests on the first floor and the main study room on the attic floor.
The design plays on the vertical decomposition of an almost cubic volume. Sliding upwards, the element of the facades, each parted in three, generate alternating openings. On the ground floor the living area opens up at the corners, blending in with the surrounding greenery, on the first floor the windows of the most private rooms are framed in the centre, on the attic the volume opens up again at the corners to generate the terraces and verandas staring at the landscape of the hills.
The vertical projection is not only suggested by the facade scheme: the double volume that overlooks the living room and the movement of the staircase in its airy space suck the gaze upwards and reveal the sense of the composition also from the inside.
