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VILLA MINIMA #5

LOCATION: Kish Island, Persian Gulf, Iran
DIMENSION: m² 200
DESIGNER: Francesco Napolitano.
TEAM: Saeed Amirzadeh, Pietro Migliorati.

 

The villa is leaning on two rocks not far from the coast and easily reachable by swimming. The space between the eastern rock and the concrete platform allows a small motorboat to dock. The operation of distortion determines a large terrace for the dining area and a covered loggia for the bedrooms. The large windows of the living space frame the sea and the coast on the other side.

 

THIS WORK IS PART ” 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.

 

SEE THE OTHER VILLAS

 

 

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