The box enclosing the small holiday home talks about the relationship between its inhabitants and the light. The volume is modeled as a scratched stone block in order to reveal the shape of living. The mass is affected to allows the incoming of the light, in the points where is established the dialogue between the inside and the outside. The passage of light inside the wall thickness, to reach and fill the living space, is emphasized by the subtraction of the matter. The scratches in turn establish a dialogue with light, allowing a shadows game. A game in which the variation of the geometries of the shadows interacts in a new way with the geometries of the splayings, allowing a dynamic facade.
The need to notch the volume is so calibrated in order to preserve the intimate secret of living. It is pushed from the desire to assign a plastic image to the small house, that tries to interpret the vernacular and picturesque character of the context in a contemporary aesthetics dimension. The project born from a small house in the seaside village of Tonnarella, characterized as a volume devoid of expressive ambitions like the popular housing in seaside and in rural villages. The house is located in an area on the border between the inhabited tissue, which is frayed here, and the open space of the countryside. The settlement system is no longer recognizable because it has been compromised by a series of interventions that have engulfed its original character, reorganizing itself into a whole characterized by accentuated dichotomies.
The project starts instead from the idea of preserving some formal typological characters, trying to overturn the sense of the vernacular, often taken as a sinister emulation of false historicism, in an operation of figurative abstraction of the elements of consolidated language in the existing tissue. The new hospitality function needed to maximizing the spaces with a distribution system, where the connective is reduced to the essentials, to find a relationship with the common space and with the landscape in the volume superimposed on the roof. The juxtaposition is marked by a chromatic difference to highligts the relationship between the proportions of the original volume and those of the new one.
