Redevelopment of Faro "Murro di Porco".
Hotel within the protected area of Plemmirio .
Second place at the Pram (Premio sul Restauro delle Architetture Mediterranee) in the Category Graduates.
In the coastal zone of protected area of Plemmiro, just outside of Syracuse, on the trail of what was once the small town of Greek fishermen vintage is the lighthouse Murro di Porco. The structure dominates the coastline, with its minimal and severe architecture that interacts with the landscape consists of lush Mediterranean vegetation, a cliff low profile towards the blue of the Mediterranean sea that opens to Africa as an eye on Europe world.
The project plans to redevelop the lighthouse building, consolidating the structures,
fully preserving the character of the architecture.
The real structure of lighthouse is converted back into a small multifunctional space support to the activities of protection and development of the protected area of Plemmiro, places where you can make meetings and conferences on the theme of conservation and the landscape of the Mediterranean.
Keep surfaces and morphologies of the place is the starting point of the project, which is developed starting from the base portion on which the buildings are based on the context and looks like its natural continuation.
The project designs a new building that growing under the walking level of the lighthouse looks more like a large square on the sea than as a volume. Inside a few rooms for those who want to enjoy the beauty of an unspoiled landscape and all that the sea can offer. The centers of the building are two: the large stone courtyard where overlook all the little guest cells, that incorporating the reef enhances the lines of the lighthouse lantern; and community kitchen that looks into the sea where guests of all nationalities can come together, experiencing the cultural value of the food that binds and unites all nations that border the Mediterranean.
The structure is designed as a monolithic , that emerge the spaces as empty excavated from within. The strength of the stone of the cliff meets the continuity of the load-bearing concrete body, which in time will change the surface and color with the passage of time merging the colors of the landscape.
The rooms are imagined as the cells of a monasterale structure, life inside the building is clean and simple, as the nature of the place requires.
