Between the glimmer of Lake Maggiore and the green of the mountainside, in the municipality of Ghiffa, a new ATOMAA site has begun.
The “Villino Capriccio” has a distinctive and surprising story. It began in the 1960s with a deliberate act: the choice of this spot on the shores of Lake Maggiore, where Mr. Agostino decided to build this house, with its clean-cut geometries, with his own hands, as a home for himself and his family.
Passing from his daughter to the current client, the villa has gone through decades without substantial changes, preserving its special relationship with the garden on the slope and the 180° view of the lake, from the Swiss Alps to the north to the Lombard Mottarone to the south.
Rather than demolishing the existing structure and erasing this past life project, the design intervenes with a radical transformation, yet one that stays in continuity with that spirit.
By completely rethinking the interior spaces, new spatial configurations are created, transforming the facades and building new, unexpected relationships with the outdoors.
Energy efficiency is the pretext for transforming the building envelope, which, while keeping the roof geometry unchanged, works within the existing pattern of the facade’s divisions to build new relationships.
The new windows are inhabited micro-architectures, places suspended between inside and outside.
“Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!”
