Alps Villa by Camillo Botticini
23/01/2015.
Lumezzane [Brescia] Italy
metalocus, ALEX DURO
metalocus, ALEX DURO
The relationship with the surroundings is the main goal that Camillo Botticini faces in the design of this private single house. The design of all the façades seeks or avoids light depending on the orientation, with an irregular "C" plan scheme with a courtyard as a central space. Different visions of the surrounding from the inner spaces constitute an active part of the design.
Description of the project by Camillo Botticini Architetto
The house stands on a clearing in the trees, 700 meters above sea level, close to the "Passo del Cavallo", next to a road that connects Trompia Valley and Sabbia Valley on a steep slope. The landscape is characterized by an open valley to the south and a frame of green mountains with peaks of dolomite rock to the north.
We are still in a place close to the urban noise but at the same time far away, where the aroma of mountain herbs and grazing sheep seem to have stopped time; and this determines which condition founding: a primary relationship between the artificial intervention and nature.
The relationship with the ground and the landscape are the material that construct the project: the ground by communicating with the project operates a principle of "rootedness" into the slope to the north, where the house seems to bite the mountain, and the principle of "emancipation "to the south, with an overhang that throw the home to the valley.
To the north, a courtyard open to the Mount allows you to look at the profile of the dolomite rock spiers that at 1200 m above sea level continues the green plane tilted so that virtually close the fourth side of the house. To the south a large window splayed mediates between the interior of the living and landscape, the light coming from the south continued with a bay window to the north patio.
The house has an irregular plan shaped like a "C" with a patio where the fourth side is made from a green plane that delivers the planimetric structure that generates the spaces of the house, creating three bodies with variable height increasing from north-est, where the volume disappears by integrating into the ground.
Important the levels of access. The main, covered by the overhang of three meters of living, is placed in the to the south-east. Upon entering there is a ramp parallel to a great room with fireplace. Here goes a ladder to the dining room level and then to the mezzanine, where a skylight opens to the sky at north.
Text.- Camillo Botticini Architetto.
CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-
Architectural design.- Camillo Botticini Architetto.
Collaborators.- arch. Lucia Fanetti, Ing. Paolo Dellana, arch. Giorgia Guseo and arch. Stefano Farina, Ing. Franco Palmieri (structural engineering), Planex srl (services engineering), Baglioni Costruzioni srl (construction company), Geom. Roberto Migliorati (supervisor of construction).
Location.- Passo del Cavallo Brescia, Italy.
Dates.- 2011-2012 (schedule), 2013-2014 (construction).
Program.- Private single house.
Client.- Private.
Area.- 360 m².
ABDArchitetti was established in 2008 by the fusion of Camillo Botticini’s and Giulia de Appolonia’s architecture studios. This collaboration arises from a substratum of interests and similar education, taking advantage of the complementary formative paths and professional experiences, as well as a common interest on working abroad. On this research for a synthesis, a “reactive” architecture comes to life based on its conceptual content, giving birth to original and creative solutions.
Camillo Botticini was born in Brescia in 1965. He graduated in architecture from Milan Polytechnic University – facoltà di architettura, Politecnico di Milano – in 1990, under professor Sergio Crotti with whom he collaborated as an assistant for ten years. In 2003 he obtained his doctorate in research (Ph.D.) in Architectonic and Urban Design at the Milan Polytechnic University. His Dissertation was published by Clup Milano, entitled ‘Relazioni, progetto ed identità dell’architettura contemporanea’ and became an University professor at Milan Polytechnic University where he still teaches Urban Planning and Architectonic design. He began his professional career in 1991, collaborating with S. Crotti, G. Canali and G. Belotti. In 1993, opened his own private studio in Brescia.
Giulia de Appolonia was born in Pordenone, Italy in 1969. She enrolled the Faculty of Architecture, Milan Polytechnic University (Facoltà di architettura del Politecnico di Milano) in 1988. In 1991 was awarded the Erasmus study abroad scholarship to attend FAULT, Lisbon and in 1993 was awarded the Comett scholarship. She graduated in architecture with honors (cum laude) in 1994. She also collaborated for several years with Carrilho da Graça in Lisbon, where she had the opportunity to manage large scale projects for the public sector, developing works of great complexity and showing her coordination and management capacities as team leader.