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C+V House

This is a project by Giovanni Vaccarini Architetto and it is located at Teramo, Italy. Project's program: Single family house. There are fifteen images for C+V House.

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Project details

Project name: C+V House
Location: Teramo, Italy
Program: Single family house
Area: Site Area: 450 m2 • Built-up Area: 280 m2
Year: Project start: 2004 • Completion: 2005
More details: Cost of Construction: 300,000 Euro
Client: Francesco Capece and Venanzi Ilenia
Project by: Giovanni Vaccarini Architetto
Others: Contractor: Di Ferdinando Michele

Project images

Designer's statement

C+V is a suburban house between the plain and the hill.

The project idea is to construct a building with an approach completely open to the hill, as a sort of green "sea".

The plan is defined by a development on three levels:

Basement level, fully excavated in the soil, an internal patio is the element around which to organize the space, making a game between underground spaces
Ground floor is the collective part of the building, where a large sliding glass door marks the border between the open roof garden and the covered living area. The space revolves around a laminated metal stair that connects with the first floor
The first floor receives the rooms and three private spaces of the building (bath / sauna, gym, studio)

The main compositive topic is played on the metaphor of the macro-transposition of a piece of the game of tetris.