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During the site works of the house with garden and caves, studiometrico was asked to think of possible ways of re-using the ruins of a small existing building that layed adjacent to the main house. The initial task was to insert a very small room for guests without completely filling the hollow volume. Some empty space should have been preserved to bring natural light into the caves below the house turning the ruins of the building into a patio. An early design proposal featured a hanging two storey prefab living unit of 2 by 4 meters. Although this seemed like a convincing solution and an exciting design challenge, a new discovery completely changed the project: another ‘secret’ room was found on the opposite side of the ‘patio’. After long negotiations the small room was purchased by the owner of the house for the given purpose…

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Since last February the works on this small house with a beautiful panorama and some hidden caves have been (slowly) developing through the interior finishing and installation phase. Studiometrico is eventualy about to leave the house in the hands of its new inhabitants. Here are some among the last ‘un-furnished’ and ‘un-inhabited’ pictures we have been shooting this month.

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Since last Summer studiometrico is busy demolishing and re-constructing a private house on the countryside North of Rome. The project development started in 2005 and has been previously posted with the title House with garden and caves. Since works completion is getting close, we make here available few pictures showing the house before, through and after its troubled transformation.

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studiometrico is currently developing the project of a house with many secrets..