Located in Ticino, Switzerland, architect Davide Macullo has created a minimalist house which incorporates copper mesh screening for transparency as an integral part of the architect’s ecological and site-sensitive design. The site was previously home to a cluster of typical old rural buildings and elements of the new house echo this.
The landscape appears to ‘flow’ through these volumes that become protected living spaces; a continuation of the green environment modeled as if to be part of the building. The construction is enhanced by an entrance ‘cave’ sheltered by the landscape and follows the slope in an organic and fluent sequence of spaces, each relating to each other and to the surrounding landscape.
This typology aims at offering an alternative to the ‘box-shaped’ construction common on these hills; an alternative to the more urbanised forms, often alien to the landscape and typified by an aggressive attitude of building with little respect for the environment. The design and construction of the House in Ticino has been realised according to the principles of sustainability and with bio-ecological materials.
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