Winning project, judging panel - Aldo Rossi, Carlo Aymonino and Guido Canella
The primary goal of this project was to recall the site’s strong architectural traditions: a patio house of roman origin, which is in turn – with its use of stone and plaster, block shaped volumes and the prevalence of filled spaces over voids – is the ‘hortus conclusus’ of the traditional Pugliese farm house. The design comprises two attached family houses, characterised at the ground floor by the patio (impluvium) surrounded by the daily activity rooms. The large living room faces a porticoed garden, with a reflecting pool, thus creating an ‘interior-exterior’ space for each house. The bedrooms are located in the upper floor, accessible by a corridor around the patio facing towards the atrium. The roof is connected directly to the garden by a flight of exterior stairs and is partly terraced, evoking the ‘solarium’ of a roman house.