to re-start
is a project to restore and extend a vacant ruin into a house for a
leisure-time farmer. The small plot of land and the impossibility of
extending the house on ground level are the starting points.
The idea is to design a house that is not limited by its walls,
claiming the surroundings for itself.
A ‘forest’ of columns establishes continuity with the exuberant flora
of chestnut and cork trees present in the surroundings.
On the first floor, the structure extends slightly to accommodate
two bedrooms.
Finally, the extra stones, recovered from the ruin, find a new place as
an access to the house, in a kind of Pikionis attitude.
year: 2023
programme: ruin transformation
status: work in progress
surface : 100m2
![front façade](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4085eed005a11d4a8317957525f551e17fdb6d11afc65729b7b399f9b3096d14/C-copiar.jpg)
![ruin photo ©Federico Farinatti](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c202a8d9122be4ec73e60744fb01ebe341001ba28f1196c65523e053dea3329/FEDERICOFARINATTI_240108_STUDIOLO_RESTAURANT_083.jpg)
![ruin and castle view photo ©Federico Farinatti](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5851ee3a6432946f69ebce07327e62a5b0a47b4261691332761d45a6f60865ec/FEDERICOFARINATTI_240108_STUDIOLO_RESTAURANT_089.jpg)
![site plan](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3da1770903a87235dde15f97c7a4f3f6aa45a10f8fe0533e3f2268c357d4530b/planta-jardim.jpg)
![chamine and columns](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/799235249775e3b0bf96b57524b46997d1a79cf2b1fe9d008aafe002bf03f64d/CHAMINE.jpg)
![existing and new](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/403536aa1575619b32590e537b92d5e20ebdd4ee2c4fa0a3b9695df9bf4e4e08/UMBAU-SCHEMA.jpg)
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