“A house that looks”, that’s how it was thought Villa in Salento built by architects in FMA. The artist’s home and studio Emanuele Gatto (part of the Raum W47 group from Frankfurt) is located in the countryside of Copertino, in the province Lecceand she is baptized Scorched earth for its ability to connect modern life with the horizon. The two volumes that make up the building are joined by a glass passage. Easy to see inside but also outside. Then the visceral relationship between inside and outside is driven by the concept of transparency. And again, just outside the windows, a dry, barren, red-dotted landscape forms a background alongside a pipe. completely white to experience face to face the tranquility of Puglia.
From Germany in the asylum of Italy, Emanuele Gatto responded to the need to return to the origin by wishing for a project that would be realized in a summer address: in a quiet environment to live together with nature all around. In this way, the house shop really breathes with the Apulian landscape and takes the best of the destination: the play of light and shadow and the beauty of the Mediterranean scrub. The structure is compact, the volume is simple and the eye of this modern architecture are the windows and also two double portholes, which in the bathrooms remind of a boat in full sail. “This is a typical Mediterranean house, where the understanding of the relationship with the place plays a key role in the conceptualization and creation of the architecture,” said the designers of FMA.
Heart Scorched earth it’s the living room. Yes, the living room, conceived as one large space, plays a fundamental role: it opens up to daily life and conversations, forming a modern agora connected to the garden through a vestibule. Thus, the path between inner and outer parts is one walking area liquid. Connection to the sleeping area is ensured by a container corridor. The bedrooms, on the other hand, were conceived as a horizontal and unique observation point: an open tent for intimacy and rest. “The idea of the project was to return the echo of traditional forms, through the simplification of volume, for example, or the exclusion of the formation of balconies, and at the same time to support sustainable and bioclimatic solutions,” added. architects. The real protagonists (also) are the materials. The house is therefore a multi-material space that initiates a dialogue between landscape and architecture.
Alessia Musillo is the editor of Elledecor.it. She graduated from the State University of Milan with a thesis held at the Treccani Foundation in Milan, she also studied modern languages at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK) and semiotics at the University of Tartu (Estonia). After collaborating with various newspapers, he transforms current events into stories by writing about cities, design and pop culture for the website Elle Decor Italia. You can follow her on Instagram (@alessia__musillo) or by reading Elledecor.it. His articles are journeys on the path of contemporary life. His vehicle? The word.