Architects: Carlo Scarpa Photography: Åke E:son Lindman Construction Period: 1978 Location: Verona, Italy
Located in Bardolino, on the eastern shore of Lake Garda, this 1974 building looks like an ancient ruin, which is thus born, “from the ground, itself a portion of land with its roof terrace overlooking the lake”. The morphological configuration of the area itself, delimited to the west by a steep slope, to the north and east by an embankment has, in fact, suggested to man to bury a large part of the house in the ground and to play with interesting design ideas. The most evocative of them is the roof that becomes a habitable place, inspired by the threshing floor of Venetian farms, an irregularly shaped brick surface from which to admire the splendid surrounding landscape as if there were no borders, as if the real roof was heaven. Pure poetry.
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