The manor house occupies the lower part of the monolithic block, but the real life of the house is on the roof, a ship's deck, where the long swimming pool is immersed in white stone from which emerges the white, steel loggia, the crow's nest; its lightness is balanced, to the south, by the solid, white cube of the guest-house.
If the natural configuration of the land is preserved, as well as the variegated, spontaneous Mediterranean vegetation, marked by rows of old olive trees - random harmony - the project tries to be a sign of natural artifice.
House overlooking the sea, single-family residence
Design:
Lúcio Rosato
Design team:
Lúcio Rosato,
Ermano Flacco,
Sandro Antonucci, engineer.
Project site:
Riparo Bardella di Ortona (Chieti)
Construction phase:
2000/2006
Photography:
Tommy Della Frana, Pasquale Carfagna
Lúcio Rosato
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