Studio Labirinto. Living in the "Campagna"

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LA CASA DELLA STORIA LIVING IN THE laquoCAMPAGNA)) Una casa nella campagna romana inaugura la nuova stashy bull A house in the Roman campagna is the first issue in gione professionale del laquoLaboratorioraquo testo perentorio the new professional season of the laquoLaboratorioraquo the ed impegnativo questopera riflette pratiche e contraddishy building is a witness of customs and contradictions of a zioni di una piugrave generale condizione progettuale more generai professional condition di FranceKo Moscblnl s tessa costruzione su unaltura rappresenta un bull This house a t Genazzano was begun by Avviata dagli archittetti Paolo Martellotti Pia Pa- gesto clamoroso spiazzata comegrave da ogni possibimiddot architects Paolo Martelloui Pia Pascalino and scalino e Claudio Presta nellS I questa casa aGe- litagrave di mediazione con il contesto un gesto di vio- Claudio Presta in 1981 Standing in oneof the nazzano - uno dei piugrave suggestivi luoghi della lenza come sempre accade quando il progetto si most delightful parts of the Roman countryside i t campagna romana- egrave contro ogni immediata a p- materializza nonostante tanti equivoci sull ap- is contrary toevery immediate appearance a parenza una costruzione di tipo rurale Risponde paesamento e sul rispeuo dei luoghi Ma se il co- ruraltype ofbuilding In this se n se i t replies toa in tal senso ad una problematica cui larchiteuumiddot struire egrave giagrave di per seacute una violenza delluomo sulla problematical issue t o which the archi tecture of ra del nostro secolo - preoccupatasi prevalente- natura una costruzione come questa lo diventa in our century chieny preoccupied with citi es has mente della cittagrave- non ha mai tentato di dare una modo ancora piugrave clamoroso proprio per il suo neverat tempted tofind an answer in terms of a risposta in termini di riproposizione critica La porsi come modello culturale volutamente estramiddot criticai reappraisal Theculture of the Mode m stessa cultura del Movimento Moderno nellana- neo alla cultura del luogo Ancora molto vi sussimiddot Movement itself in analysing the town-country liuare il rapporto ciuagrave-campagna ha lasciato ammiddot ste di quellavanguardismo ad olt ranza che era relationshipleft biggaps precisely in its pie lacune proprio nell interpre tare il tipo della lelemento cara tterizzante della precedente formiddot interpretation of the rural house In fact even casa rurale infalli quando lo ha fau o s i egrave sempre mazione di questi architeui eppure esso sembra when i t did try to interpreti t i t was always as a trattato di unabitazione a ridosso del tessuto urmiddot teso a darsi una c redibilitagrave ed un rigore che diano house against an expanding urban fabric bano in espansione al puro gesto Il valore di una memoria remota ed So i t would have bee n unthinkable t o bui l d in this Impossibile quindi sarebbe s tato pensare di insemiddot alla costruzione stessa il senso di una meditata rimiddot piace a pieceof architecture stillthoughligtf as an diare in questo luogo unarchitettura pensata flessione teorica La casa diventa a llora un testo urban fact Equally unthinkable would ha ve been sempre come fatto urbano egualmente impossimiddot di confronto con l intero patrimonio della cultu ra the idea ofa sort of seasonal house seeing tha t the bile pensare a una sorta di casa stagionale visto architeuonica da quella antica a quella moderna clients who had turned from being bourgeois luso continuativo che ne richiedevano i commi tmiddot senza fal si pudori e moralismi Si osservi cosi per urban dwellers intoenlightened peasants wished tenti trasformalisi da borghesi cittadini in illumimiddot la collocazione stessa dell opera come negazione e t o li ve there ali year round Situated thus on the nati contadini assorbimento ad un tempo del valore del s ito il highest point of a hill the house reflects the signs Collocata cosi su una collina di cui occupa il pun- nesso con certa architettura federiciana come Camiddot of its privileged position Overlookinga sma ll to piugrave elevato la casa riflette i segni della s ua po- stel del Monte ad Andria o per quella successione valley with no natura barriers t o defend i t from sizione privilegiata affacciata su una piccola valmiddot the winds il is li t up by the su n f rom dawn tili le se01a barriere naturali che la difendano dai dusk It was thiscondition t hat necessitated a venti con il sole che la illumina sin dall alba Da double rela tionship with nature onc inside and questa condizione scaturisce la necessitagrave di un one outside and m ade light and shade so doppio rapporto con la natura uno allinterno e important refracted light which creates dazzling uno allesterno e l importanza assegnata alla luce contoursand the shade which solidifies thc e all ombra la luce che rinfrangendosi crea quinmiddot apparent provisionality if not even te abbacinanti lombra che solidifica quell appamiddot transitoriness of a construction like paper rente provvisorietagrave se non addirittura abili tagrave a rcrutecture della costruzione da archi tettura di carta Non po- Unable tocompare itself with any adjacent built t endosi confrontare con un tessuto costruito a diamiddot fabric the work stands in skeleta l solitude the cente lopera si erge in scheletrica soli tudine con soleother presence being t ha t of a ruined la sola presenza del vicino rudere di un rifugio per shepherds hut nearby Likc that ruin the house pastori Allo stesso modo di quel rudere la casa tends to shut itself up in itself projecting a tende a chiudersi in se stessa proiettando disquieting symbolic i m age drenched with allesterno uninquietante immagine simbolica history an d memories grondante di storia c di memorie Aochored to its close reference of symbolic and Ancorata a uno stretto rimando di elementi si mmiddot alchemica elements the house is fur thermore bolici ed alchemici la casa egrave inoltre percorsa da crossed from fouror thogonal directions(twoof quattro direzioni ortogonali due delle quali solmiddot which areonly visual) aimed a l evoking the four tanto visive tese ad evocare le quattro direzioni directions oflhe universe as imagined in a large delluniverso cosl come sono immaginate in gran part of Mediterranean and orientai beliefs A vita l parte delle credenze medi 1erranee ed orientali importance is therefore attached lo the piace and Importanza fondamen ta le assume quindi il luo- to thc signs which referto i t characterise i t and go i segni che ad esso rimandano e che lo carattemiddot configure i t Thus in the design ofoneof the rizzano c lo conformano Cosi nel disegno di una faccedilades- the one most exposed t o the su n and delle facciate- quella piugrave rivolta al sole e direttamiddot most directly illuminated - the need was felt to mente illuminata- si egrave sentito la necessitagrave di afmiddot assert the high position through signs of fermare la posizione elevata con segni di misura- measurement capable of picking out the symbols zione capaci di inviduarne i simboli introdotti Si introduced Thiscxplains thesetbacks which spiegano cosi gli arretramen t i che danno spessore enhance the entrance pillars ai pilastri del vestibolo fatti appartenere alla pamiddot These are made t o belong lO theextcrnal wall in a rete esterna soluzione preferita a quella di un au- solution preferred t o t hat of an autonomous front 10nomo corpo avan7ato Tut 1 i gli spazi danno sul- di corti e spazi interni alternati alla citazione di block Allthe spaces give onto the courtyard la corte che diventa quindi il luogo centrale in cui un esempio clamoroso come quello di Pa lazzo which thus becomes the centrai core in which this questa casa immersa nella natura ritrova la natumiddot Massimo alle Colonne del Peruzzi Si osservi poi house immersed in nature finds nature ra immersa in se s tessa come la migliore ereditagrave della cultura italiana ramiddot immersed in itself lnsidc the distribution overtly All interno la distribuzione egrave in aperto contrasto uonalista degli anni 30- e in particolare la l ezio- contrasts with any strictly functionaltheory the con unipotesi strettamente funzionale unica dimiddot ne di Terragni- venga fatta reagire con la schemiddot only funda mental distinction being between the stinzione fondamenta le quella tra la zona rurale maticitagrave da manuale di certa a rchitettura minore rural a reaof the warehouses and the home dei magazzini e labitazione vera e propria di quegli s tessi anni a ncobullmiddota legata a i pedanti detmiddot proper Ma al di lagrave di tutte le questioni legate alla casa co- tami di un buon compilatore come il Dagoberti But aside from a li questions todowith the me costruzione in s~ questa casa nella campagna Se la successione di spazi diaframma t i di pallamiddot building as a construction in itself 1his house in romana si fa soprattutto testo fondamenta le per diana memoria si contamina cosigrave con certi casca- the Roman architectural thinking in recent years la comprensione della cultura architettonica ro- mi da architettura coloniale non potragrave scanda lizmiddot is a lmost a denouncement of the dramatic crisis mana di questi ultimi anni quasi una denuncia zare se non per una sorta di cinismo per nulla ma- in progress The ranks of thedissolved della drammatica c risi in a tto Ricomposte le fil a scherato e fatto appena intravvedere dietro experimenta l group known as Studio Labirinto del disciolto gruppo sperimentale noto come Stumiddot un architettura che ha come fondamentale termimiddot having been re-formed Martellotti Pascalino and dio Labirinto Martellotti Pascalino e Presta han- ne di paragone unicamente e soltanto se stessa e Presta have founded the ne w professional no dato vi ta alla nuova struttura professionale del la propria storia Se si tratta allora di unarch itetmiddot partnership bullLaboratoriobull bullLaboratoriobull tura poco pensata per luomo e piugrave invece per la In tbeir first and most challenging project they Ebbene alla loro prima e piugrave impegnativa occamiddot propria storicitagrave se non per la propria pregnanza ha ve displayedcommittment courage and sione hanno saputo rispondere con un dispiegamiddot c dati tagrave non mette conto certo discuterne se mmiddot ambition which eclipse the bitter but inevitable mento dimpegno di coraggio e dambizione che mai sono le s trizzatine docchio a cena architettumiddot surprises typical ofany verification a number of possono far passare in secondo piano le amare ma ra americana o a certe province dellarchitettura ingenuities and a few hardly marginai errors of inevitabili sorprese proprie di qualsiasi verifica come quella svizzera a far avvenire come sbanda- formulation The percmptory placing of a alcune ingenuitagrave ed alcuni non marginali errori menti tal uni piaceri del testo che lopera tende buildingon topof a hill is in itself a scnsational

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