House PC

Designed by Gruppo Vid’A in Porto Palo di Menfi, House PC is a single-family house, intended to re-shape a corner of the village, still becoming an integral part of it.

The house is located in Porto Palo (Menfi), a small sea village on the south-west coast of Sicily, where the houses are apparently placed randomly, but they actually suggest some kind of “consolidated order” on the whole.

The building results from filling an empty spot left by a collapsed house. The new building faithfully follows the shape of the original one, but it has a completely new structure, stemming from the overlapping and rotation of different shapes.

Elevating on three levels. the structure gradually looses its consistency, with wide holes overlooking the internal patio and the Sea of Africa outside.

Through the rotations characterizing the different levels and the progressive dematerialization of the volumes, the building is intended to re-shape a corner of the village, still becoming an integral part of it.

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Gruppo Vid'A, House PC, Menfi, 2015

Gruppo Vid'A, House PC, Menfi, 2015

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Gruppo Vid'A, House PC, site plan

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Gruppo Vid'A, Casa PC, ground floor

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Gruppo Vid'A, Casa PC, first floor

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Gruppo Vid'A, Casa PC, second floor

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Gruppo Vid'A, Casa PC, east elevation

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Gruppo Vid'A, Casa PC, south elevation

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Gruppo Vid'A, Casa PC, section

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Gruppo Vid'A, Casa PC, section

House PC, Porto Palo, Menfi, Sicily
Program: single-family house
Architects: Gruppo Vid’A (Gaetano Gulino, Santi Albanese)
Structural engineering: Gaspare Francesco Ciaccio
Contractor: Impresa Edile Ardizzone
Completion: 2015

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House PC

Designed by Gruppo Vid’A in Porto Palo di Menfi, House PC is a single-family house, intended to re-shape a corner of the village, still becoming an integral part of it.

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