Contemporary volume

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Project • By OOIIO ArchitecturePrivate Houses

Tornado House

Tornado House is located in a quiet residential area of Madrid capital. It is a domestic project tailor designed to a family with two children. Javier de Paz Javier de Paz Everything is though for them, every space and detail. During the home design and construction process all decisions always started from listening to the needs of those who would be the inhabitants of the house, in order to be able to give the closest possible response to their tastes, budget, way of life, aspirations... That is why Tornado is actually like a suit, a true "taylor-made house". Javier de Paz Javier de Paz Its architecture is simple and emphatic, as well as purely functional and practical. Its carefully composed prismatic volumes stand... More

NewsNews • 11 Aug 2022

Casa Aco by Giuseppe Gurrieri Architetto merges a contemporary volume with Italian rural vernacular

In Italy’s Apulian countryside, Casa Aco by Giuseppe Gurrieri Architetto is a renovation and expansion of two typical rural buildings – or Trulli. Alongside the refurbished, curving buildings, a new volume inserted in their midst expresses a contemporary style that integrates with the existing materiality, chromatics, and geometry.  Filippo Poli The small size of the renovated rooms and their rigid floor plans contrast with the flexibility and minimalism of the new building. And distinguishing between old and new conditions, a long and narrow skylight highlights the boundary between the two states, highlighting how the outer wall of the trullo has been incorporated into the new building.  Filippo Poli... More