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American Sixtiesarchitectonic project by Hugh Hardy
interior architecture by Stamberg Aferiat Architecture
photos by Paul Warchol
text by Matteo Vercelloni
The scheme of this house refers back to the typical design of a Palladian villa - despite the difference in time, style and scales - with a protruding central body and two lateral symmetric sheds that stretch out into the landscape, thus delimiting the inhabited area.
For a holiday home of the end of the 1960s, Hugh Hardy reinterpreted this original scheme and associated the central body - the two-storey house equipped with a platform for sun-tanning on the roof - with two lateral and symmetrical lower constructions connected to it by suspended foot-bridges which are not really attractive.
Entirely covered with vertical wood planks, according to the typical American building tradition, with no ornaments whatsoever and a roof with sloping pitches, this house looks like an ensemble of different volumes based on a fa硤e composition characterised by alternating simple figures: portholes in different sizes, window panes in different lengths conceived either as large horizontal openings or as thin vertical slots.
Everything looks so asymmetrical and unexpected, if compared to the reference planimetry. The two lateral buildings
more: www.internimagazine.it/s013001000... (232)
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