After some months of silence, after the grapes harvest and the wine bottling, we have decided it was time to publish some updated photographs we have been shooting on the site of this house on the hills near Piacenza that we have designed for a couple of small wine producers.

As the construction process developed, we realized that our feeling of ‘ownership’ progressively decreased through a (sometimes painful) passage that will soon deliver the building from our hands to the ones of the inhabitants. In the same way, the decisions we now have to face are less and less related to the organization of space, light and… architecture, but rather dictated by clients taste, practical needs and… unexplainable obsessions. It is perhaps in this transition, and because this ‘suspension’, that is possible to find the right moments to shoot, look at and share our photographs without caring too much about things that are still too unfinished, or things that will soon be too defined and characterized…

Construction of boundary walls

Construction of the roof

Construction of the roof

Construction of the roof

Covering the roof

Cladding the boundary walls

Cladding the boundary walls

Cladding the boundary walls

Cladding the boundary walls

The Northern facade

The Northern facade

Looking South through the house

Looking South through the house

Interior view of the upper floor

Looking North through the house

Interior view of the ground floor

The Southern porch

The North-Eastern corner

Brickwork

Brickwork

previous posts about this project:

Bricks from scratch

The Harvest – Brick from scratch – 2

We have previously posted here few drawings and images of our first project for a ‘built from scratch’ private house near Piacenza, Italy. The 140 sqm villa is going to be inserted in a 4 hectares hilly terrain partly occupied by our client’s vineyards. Everybody knows that the end of september is the right time for the harvest… and since we have started to work on site a couple of months ago, we thought this was a good time to publish a sequence of the way we have progressed in ‘filling our bucket’.

Tracing the house profile on the ground

On the edge of the crater

steelfixing on the cellar level

pouring the concrete foundations

the cellar walls timber formworks

the concrete ‘bucket’ is built…

ground floor timber formworks

isolation of the cellar walls

gathering grapes and fixing steel

the ‘silted up’ cellar

the predalles slabs set into place

ground floor formworks

previous posts about this project:

Bricks from scratch

After a neverending year of sketches, design, writings, phone calls, meetings, documents and contracts, next week studiometrico is going to go on site with its very first ‘built from scratch’ project. A 140 sqm private house will be located on a hilly terrain nearby Piacenza (70 km south of Milan) and inserted within a group of existing buildings and rural facilities. The house has been designed for a mature couple that loves nature, sustainable energy, wine and… bricks. The house should be completed before summer 2009 and the project should then continue with the realization of a new wine cellar. We are very happy to publish some images and drawings of this project.

Interior views of the house:

Overall plan:

Ground floor plan:

Mezzanine plan:

Sections: