Ellipse 1501 House, Rome, Italy
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| Ellipse 1501 House | |
| Designer | Antonino Cardillo Architect, Rome, Italy |
| Location | Rome, Italy |
| Date | 2007 to 2007 |
| Building Type | Small House |
| Climate | Warm Temperate |
| Context | Hill or Cliffside |
| Architectural Style | Expressionist Modern |
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| Building Details | |
| Area | 140+80 sqm |
| Stories | two |
Near a rocky slope behind a thick blanket of pines lives a house in the shape of a tower. It’s not round but its geometric set-up dilates toward east and west to welcome in the low, warm extended light of the sun at dawn and dusk.
A double wall made from progressive monolithic castings of lightweight concrete develops the perimeter of an ellipse, supporting, above it, a stretched out slanting cover. In the internal space between the two walls an ample interspace comprises the accessory area (stairs to the bedroom, bathroom, boiler, storerooms, cupboard) serving the occupants of the house and contributing to stabilising the temperature of the large central hall.
Inside, the original compositional set-up is reinterpreted by means of a cross-sectional system, rotated in plan relative to the largest axes of the ellipse. It co-ordinates several stereo metric spaces including the guest bedroom on the ground floor and the open plan bedroom on the first floor.
All around, deep excavations in the outside wall suggest unexpected fleeting routes towards the rocks and the wood on the outside breaking up the sky into a multitude of quadrants. Over the course of days, nights and seasons the thick reveals of the windows register the changing colours of the celestial hemisphere. Thus the light of the sky makes a mutable architecture articulating the passing of time, so the light colours the space and changes with itself. In supporting these changes, the fabric remains in its original essence: colourless or tending to grey.
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- Concrete Design, DAAB, Köln, Nov 2008, pp. 136-143
- «Noithat Magazine», HCM city, Vietnam, Sep 2008, pp. 56-61
- Artindex Catalogue 04, St-Petersburg, Jul 2008, pp. 150-151
- «Landscape Design» n. 26, Beijing, Jun 2008, pp. 24-31
- «Tasarim Design» n. 182, Istanbul, May 2008, pp. 124-130
- Anna Krenz, Pustka do mieszkania, in Vox Design, Warsaw, January 2008, pp. 54-57
- Be the One vol. 2, n. 8: Elliptical esthetics, Bangkok, January 2008, pp. 122-123
- Devyani Jayakar, Celestial Vision, in Home Review, Mumbai, October 2007, pp. 58-64
- Perspective, Hong Kong, October 2007, p. 34
- L'Arca n. 229, Milan, October 2007, pp. 64-69
- Modern Design n. 3, Malaga, September 2007, pp. 44-47
- Jana Martin, My Concrete Heart, in Moli.com, New York, August 2007
- Matt Hussey, Ellipse 1501, in Thecoolhunter.net, New York, July 2007
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http://www.thecoolhunter.net/architecture/Ellipse-1501-House/ http://www.moli.com/p/moliview/1_193010/article http://www.antoninocardillo.com
