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Polistena, Italy
1991-1993
Carmelia Elia

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The building configures itself as a parallelepiped body, articulated between the courtyards that acquire, through the family quotidian, different activities.
The automobile and pedestrian entrances are made through the courtyard, of representative character, that occasion in contemporary, the necessary distance capable to favour the necessary privacy.
The interior courtyard is the axle of distribution of the well being and services of the house, occasioning in the quotidian an open air room. The dimension and shape of the openings, that relate the interior and the exterior, are intimately connected with the characteristics and wishes of events and sensations that one intends to activate in the different inhabit spaces. The articulation in two levels warrants a first separation between the resting area and the living area. A central area with double right foot, marked by a quadrangular skylight, connects directly the resting spaces and the living ones, amplifying the real dimension of the events. Two terraces, which communicate between themselves in the upper floors, allow the wander in the private space in a straight visual relation with the rural landscape that evolves this part of the house.