Blue House / studio gamp!

Blue House / studio gamp! - Exterior Photography, Windows
© Lorenzo Zandri

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Montefiascone, Italy
  • Architects: studio gamp!
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  333 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Lorenzo Zandri
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Fiandre, Artemide, IPF, Irsap, Mutina, Pecchioli Firenze, Poroton
  • Architects: Valentino Anselmi, Valerio Palmieri, Marco Grippo, Matteo Murzi, Roberta Nocco
  • Engineering Consulting: Fabio Giraldo
  • Landscape Architect: Luca Dionisi
  • City: Montefiascone
  • Country: Italy
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Blue House / studio gamp! - Exterior Photography, Windows
© Lorenzo Zandri
Blue House / studio gamp! - Exterior Photography, Windows
© Lorenzo Zandri

Text description provided by the architects. The architectural firm gamp! has finished planning two Villas in Montefiascone. Two houses, one for the clients themselves, and one for their friends to use during weekends and holidays. Three houses - two above ground and a third underground - which were designed on the renovation of two tuff buildings dedicated to the deposit of agricultural machinery and from which the sediment was inspired, stand in the Tuscia land-scape, a gentle countryside, dotted with tall oaks. The architects explain that “the idea was to imagine simple, almost archetypical, houses, which would blend harmoniously with the almost intact landscape of the Tuscia without altering its balance, retracing an established image, without giving up on the characteristics of a modern project.”

Blue House / studio gamp! - Exterior Photography, Windows, Brick
© Lorenzo Zandri

Though spatially fluid, the architecture is rigorous in its functional organization and is able to open the interior space to the exterior space thanks to the accurate positioning of the windows, as well as the predisposition of spaces toward outdoor life. The first two houses present a pitched roof, the third has a garden roof; in all three the existence of a chimney is made evident by its dimensions. “These are apparently traditional houses, though we have played with their geometries through slight deformations and through the way they rest upon the ground; particularly in the light blue house the planimetric deformation, which is visible in the living room, makes the space ever-changing and lacking symmetry”.

Blue House / studio gamp! - Interior Photography
© Lorenzo Zandri
Blue House / studio gamp! - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Table, Windows, Chair
© Lorenzo Zandri
Blue House / studio gamp! - Interior Photography
© Lorenzo Zandri

Wanting the houses to fit harmoniously into the landscape brought the architects to choose traditional materials, terracotta, trowelled plaster, travertine, and stone for the exterior; stoneware, ceramic, and wood for the interior, guaranteeing durability and easy maintenance, “and especially giving the architecture the capacity to absorb the passing of time, a characteristic we like to think belongs to good architecture”.

Blue House / studio gamp! - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Shelving
© Lorenzo Zandri

The use of traditional material corresponds to a not so usual positioning of them: the recycled terracotta tiles completely cover the smallest house, from the walls to the ceiling, in the light blue house the wainscoting climbs up the walls; on the inside, stoneware and ceramic come up the walls and fireplaces to draw translucent diaphragms and volumes. The surrounding landscape is dotted with simple metal gazeboes, which define a sort of hypothetical building, “a counter alter to the commodity of the internal living space”.

Blue House / studio gamp! - Exterior Photography, Windows
© Lorenzo Zandri

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Cite: "Blue House / studio gamp!" 17 May 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/982003/blue-house-studio-gamp> ISSN 0719-8884

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