address        Annone Veneto (VE)

period            2002 - 2004

the project for the interiors of this farmhouse located in the farming plain of east veneto has a tight connection with the building tradition of the area: spaces, materials and techincal solutions may be considered a never-ending conversation beetween modernity and the tradition recoverd with radicalness; therefore in the choice of the space solutions, some rooms recover unusual functions; materials make no concessions to contemporaneity, albeit for the terseness of their shapes, which is made possible by new technologies. the fireplace in the living-room is built with handmade bricks baked in a klin. the bricks are laid in overlapping lines in order to show that they are used just a decorative element; the hearth in the kitchen is built with bricks, stone and wood according to the tradition and seeks a synthesis through its pre semi-circle shape; the staircase that leads to the upper floors recovers elements belonging to the traditional wooden staircase, which were closed with boards in order to avoid heat dispersion.