renovation of
a single-family villa

© Andrea Ceriani It is indeed the relationship with the surrounding green that leads the formal and functional choices related to it, through constructive techniques, materials, and morphology to create a visual system made of dialogue with nature, not contrast with it.

© Andrea Ceriani The intention is to give back to architecture its role as a component of the landscape, facilitating its inclusion in the green, seen as a compositional space of life and not just as a contour.

© Andrea Ceriani The project is based on the reorganization of the interior spaces, obtaining larger and brighter rooms.

© Andrea Ceriani On the ground floor, the living area has changed to generate an open space, expanding the existing windows to increase the brightness of the interiors.

© Andrea Ceriani Also, the master bedroom is located on the same floor and it’s characterized by a private bathroom and an integrated walk-in closet.

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© Andrea Ceriani The overhang of the bedroom is marked by a new linear opening and a wood covering of the exterior walls like a bowindow.

© Andrea Ceriani Part of the garage has been transformed into a kitchen expanding the spaces of the living area, which was obtained in the basement, also by closing up the existing porch.

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© Andrea Ceriani The intervention also provided a simplification of the fronts, with a new design of solids and voids, keeping the movement of the different volumes of the building, emphasized using different materials such as larch wood staves, left to natural oxidation, and light tinted plaster.

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