Villa in Brianza
Designer: Andrea Carmignola Architect - 35a Architecture Studio
The project involves the construction of a two-family villa on two floors above ground, and the creation of a large garden on the south side serving the new building.
From a linguistic point of view, the building is distinguished by simple shapes and stereometrically recognizable and contemporary volumes. The presence of “horizontal planes” cantilevered by 1.79 m (floor and roof), which form covered porticoes on three sides of the house, act as a counterpoint to the “vertical partitions” of the infill walls outside the house.
The latter are diversified on the two levels by a different material and color matrix.
On the ground floor there is a white stone cladding that extends to the entire floor and ideally forms the base of the building. On the floor above, the introduction of a dark gray facade plaster, in addition to giving the architectural forms an extreme elegance and refinement, tends to dampen the volumetric impact of the floor above.
Even the slightly inclined aluminum roof (with a maximum slope of 7%) is never visible from the street level given its minimal slope.
The natural appearance is guaranteed not only by the maintenance of various trees present on the site, but also by the formation of large flowerbeds with trees and shrubs interspersed with the glass parapets of the balconies on the first floor of the building. In addition to constituting the counterpoint to the rigor of the geometric shapes of the building, they have the pretentious purpose of bringing a psycho-physical improvement to the inhabitants who can enjoy a quality green roof.
The elevations of the building present a homogeneous language on all four fronts but different in the composition between the full-empty spaces depending on the practical and aesthetic needs.
The building will be entirely made with a load-bearing structure in xlam: an eco-sustainable choice dictated by the particular sensitivity of the clients towards an architecture as natural as possible in all respects, environmental and energy saving.
The perimeter walls are made of solid fir wood panels with 5 crossed layers of 10cm thick, with an external coat composed of a double layer of wood fiber panels of 16cm thick with a breathable facade sheath to protect the fiber and metal profiles and a double sheet of fiber-reinforced lightweight concrete to form the ventilated wall.
The floors will be made with laminated wood beams and overlying planking, the roof in particular will be made of wood fiber insulation of about 22cm and stapled sheet metal.