Villa SW Bellagio
The design choices for the construction of the new house are consistent with the conservation and enhancement objectives of the place and from these derive the architectural language adopted.
The building appears as a composition of simple volumes with a rectangular plan covered in Moltrasio stone in the base part, the underground garage and the ground floor of the house, and white plastered in the upper part of the first floor and the attic floor. which form a series of terraces rising from the bottom up.
The design choices for the construction of the new house are consistent with the conservation and enhancement objectives of the place and from these derive the architectural language adopted.
The first choice is undoubtedly that of not modifying the conformation of the land which has a sloping course and to adapt the new volumes to its course in order to leave the green areas on the sides and upstream unchanged without having to build external walls and works of regulation.
The position, the conformation of the site in which the new construction can be planned suggests inserting the new building according to a sloping trend, in the sense that we wanted to design the housing unit as a sequence of episodes following a perceptive path that leads to conquer the view of the landscape with greater openness and intensity as you go up from the road.
A further choice is to simplify the language and composition to reduce the architecture of the building to a few essential gestures.
Obviously the language of the new house is not accidental, the particular formal solution is suggested by the place and its constraints, by the traditional materials, the Moltrasio stone and the light plaster and refers to the happy period of rationalist architecture that remains in the exemplarys buildings built in Como and along the banks and which are a local heritage to which the house wants to refer.
The building appears as a composition of simple volumes with a rectangular plan covered in Moltrasio stone in the base part, the underground garage and the ground floor of the house, and white plastered in the upper part of the first floor and the attic floor. which form a series of terraces rising from the bottom up.
The rhythmic sequence, in relation to the lay of the land, arranges in succession the suspended volume of the swimming pool above the underground garage, the terrace connecting with the porch of the ground floor on which the volume of the first floor.
The ground with sloping terraces has been studied according to the amount of sunshine to allow the sun's rays coming from south towards the mountain to have the sun on the terrace and swimming pool on the ground floor during the summer months.
The views are oriented towards the view of the lake according to a succession that from the ground floor to the attic floor overlaps the full height and width windows of the living area, the ribbon window of the bedrooms and the windows on the attic terrace in order to orient and project the internal rooms towards the external view of the landscape which on the ground floor is framed by the side walls of the infinity pool.
