VILLA MINIMA #2
LOCATION: Perugia, Umbria, Italy
DIMENSION: m² 85
DESIGNER: Francesco Napolitano
TEAM: Maurizio Giodice, Pietro Migliorati
THANKS TO : Andres Besomi Terrazas
This design involves the detached pavilion of an ancient rural house, now converted into a luxury residence. The main operation of the project concerns the distortion of a triangular form: the walls which surround the space lift up and rest upon each other, creating a mutual and seemingly precarious equilibrium. This lifting creates openings to frame views in three different directions: the village, the countryside, and the woods.
THIS WORK IS PART OF ” VILLAE MINIMAE ” PROJECT.
Villae Minimae
“Villae Minimae” (Small Villas) is a collection of five isolated single-family villas that were developed and studied at a 1:200 scale.
In all five cases, the projects were designed as ‘appendices,’ or as additions detached from larger properties but located in the immediate vicinity of those project sites. Thus, the villas never
contain more than two bedrooms, and interior spaces are minimalisic. Beyond to pure functionality, we were explicitly requested to think of these projects as artifacts, or as machines for observing the landscape.
The projects have in common a provocative and utopian approach.
All projects are based on the distortion of a simple geometric figure; each distortion is a device designed to correspond to a panoramic view from the interior space, framing nature and allowing for contemplation of the landscape. This characteristic underlines the iconography of the projects: the dichotomy between nature and edifice.
The villas, designed between January 2013 and April 2014, are presented here with a selection of
drawings: two sketches, a diagram of the operational distortion, floor plans, elevations, sections,
and renders. Given their conceptual nature, these projects occupy the border between case study and divertissement.
