casa a Tivoli

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A residential building for two families  in a  site with the   view on the city of Tivoli.  The project has been realized in the  area  where  the  Travertine  Quarries  are  part  of the surrou -  nding  landscape.  The  main  request  was  to  obtain  private  spaces open to the landscape but enclosed. The other impor- tant  aspect  was  the  sun  exposure .  The  south  side  of  the  building  has  the  windows  set  back  to block the sun  in the  summer and  permit  to  enter in the winter. The north side  is  flat without any  elements  to allow the light enter in any part of the year. The  project  idea: a  single  block,  divided  in  the  middle,  cut  out,  rotated  and superimposed. The arcades on  the ground  floor  -  spaces  open  to the garden, and the ter -  races  on  the  first  floor –  spaces open to the landscape. The  building  appear  as a  solid block, white and apparently her -  metic, the tuff  stone  sign  the  surfaces that were 'cut out' to  represent the  opening  towards  the  surrounding landscape. The internal  space  merges  with  the external space, and the  two units  appear  to  be  the  same ,  but they stand out from  each  other   by  the  different  internal  spatial  conformation.