Architects:Archiplanstudio

Area:460m²

Year:2022

Photographs:Simone Marcolin,Giuseppe Gradella

Lead Architect:Jacopo Rettondini

City:San Giacomo delle Segnate

Country:Italy

Text description provided by the architects. The intervention is organized in two buildings, a workshop intended for self-sufficient elderly homes while the lower and longer volume is hosting a counseling room and an archive.

The residential building consists of two fronts that relate differently, with a variation of systems, towards the landscape and the urban environment.

The public room has a wooden side that establishes a relationship with the garden and a metal front that denies the hostile side border.

The facade on the open public space defines the access hierarchies while the rear front enriches the possible dialectics with the outside: the portions of the lower openings cut out a fragment of the countryside, while the upper portion covered in polycarbonate, is configured as a lantern which, illuminated at night, it becomes an element of orientation in the surrounding agricultural fields context.

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Project location

Address:46020 San Giacomo delle Segnate, Mantua, Italy