SdM
SdM
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Forli, Italy
Single-family villa
In an ordinary residential context, a building takes shape that stands out for its ability to question the compositional rules of domestic architecture.
It is not a formal gesture for its own sake, but the result of an experimental design process, carried out in close collaboration with the Client, who showed openness to an unusual and rigorous language.
The starting point was not a predetermined concept, but rather a sequence of simplified 3D models, developed as tools for dialogue and reflection.
Through these, certain established principles of traditional construction—such as the verticality of walls and the clear separation between façade and roof—were challenged.
The research led to a compact volume, characterized by a pronounced inclination that merges walls and roof into a single continuous surface.
The heart of the project is represented by a large inclined wall which, merging with the roof, defines the three main fronts of the building.
The fourth front, more contained and introverted, opens only partially, allowing the sloping terrace to emerge.
This compositional choice generates a dynamic architecture, sculpted by light and by the movement of surfaces, capable of conveying a strong identity without ever resorting to excess.
One of the most technically significant aspects was precisely the continuity of the envelope.
The project required particular attention to the management of joints, eaves lines, and connection details, in order to preserve the idea of a homogeneous and enveloping surface.
The formal language is thus translated into a concrete structure, built with rigor and coherence.
This intervention represents an effective synthesis between expressive research and constructive control.
It is an architecture that takes a stance, proposing a dwelling where form and function merge into a single and measured gesture.
The result is a space to be lived in and observed, offering new possibilities for relating to the context, to light, and to time.
More than an autonomous object, the building behaves as an open system: it invites experimentation, suggests paths, stimulates questions.
A project that does not impose itself, but allows itself to be read in its complexity, and that finds in the simplicity of form its most radical character.
