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chiuro house

private home 

The project was inspired by the client's request to have a private residence for two people incorporating a traditional sloping roof to convey an immediate sense of "home". 

The south sloping site  is surrounded by an ordinary residential zone to the east, west and south.

An urban planning limit did not allow building to be planned in the northern most isolated area of the  lot. 

Working on a decisive modification of the original topography of the site of the land towards the south, the house protects and closes off the view of the residential surroundings through a private courtyard. A courtyard open to the north with a view of the apple orchards and the surrounding mountains at a higher altitude than the residential surroundings. All the rooms of the couple's daily life open onto the courtyard. 

The section of the house organizes and contains the new differences in height and natural profiles of the terrain. 

The lower level of the house with the service space and garage is in direct relationship with the existing road and the neighborhood to avoid excavation of the land. 

The level of the residence is raised compared to the street to give greater privacy, intimacy and overall unity to the living and sleeping areas which are also visually related to each other. The kitchen space can be expanded in the summer months by opening two large twin sliding glass partitions which directly connect the large space/terrace to the south with the courtyard and garden to the north, doubling its size. 

The reinforced concrete structure of the house anchors it directly and strongly to the surrounding landscape and orography and at the same time becomes the external finish of the entire casing, guaranteeing solidity and zero future maintenance. 

The profiles of the built volumes and the retaining walls and organization of the external space are aimed at maximum integration with the naturalness and orography of the landscape.