Wardrobe / ES-arch

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Madesimo, Italy
  • Architects: ES-arch: ES-arch – Enrico Scaramellini Architetto
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  35
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Marcello Mariana

Text description provided by the architects. The project is based on two specific conditions: - on one side the client’s needs, looking for a small and intimate space; - on the other a small, special and precious place. The alpine landscape dominates the place: it becomes evident the condition of a privileged and unique space.

Wardrobe / ES-arch - Windows, Door, Facade
© Marcello Mariana

The concept of size guides the project. Great is the land, the landscape: small is the place, the space. There is a mutual relationship that inspires the design process. What is the role of the "room" in relation to the landscape? How the landscape reflects, "adopts” the room? The point of view changes in a frenzied search for balance.

Wardrobe / ES-arch - Windows
© Marcello Mariana

A micro retreat for weekends, a place for contemplation, a clearing house from a daily hectic urban condition. A small wooden box fits between two existing buildings. Inside, the wood shows its nature in warm tones; outside, the surface treatment with silver-gray paints echoes the colors of the centenarian woods of rural buildings. The wooden panels, assembled with different development of the vein (horizontal - vertical), react to sunlight returning different geometric compositions.

Wardrobe / ES-arch - Windows, Beam
© Marcello Mariana

Outside, almost in a mimetic condition, the new wooden facade seems to hide itself, in the shadows of the landscape, and then to confirm, with sunlight, its presence, dazzling, throwing a visible signal at a long distance. Inside, the space becomes a privileged place overlooking the landscape. Almost an abstraction, an estrangement that allows to emphasize the privileged status of the "spectator". A second level of thinking regards the stability of the building’s image in the landscape: spaces lived for short periods consolidate their status of "closed" places.

1st floor plan

The light that reflects differently on the wooden panels changes the appearance in colors and tones, the uninhabited façade lives of its own life. Finally, the project underlines yet another ambiguity: as a wooden container, as furniture and furnishing, it is "a wardrobe in the landscape". The project operates in small size, uses simple devices to find a contemporary language within strongly characterized environmental contexts.

Wardrobe / ES-arch - Image 3 of 16
© Marcello Mariana

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Cite: "Wardrobe / ES-arch" 20 Apr 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/227104/wardrobe-es-arch> ISSN 0719-8884

© Marcello Mariana

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