Architect：Gian Luca Zoli;Nicola Montini

Location：Cotignola, Italy

Project Year：2011

Category：Private Houses

The project concerns the drastic restructuring of some buildings, among which the main was used, for decades, as a bakery by the same family. The works include the demolition of good part of the buildings, restoring the wood-burning oven that becomes the distribution centre of the new two_floors house. The “villa” regains a central role typical of the colonial landscape, underlined by the coverage with four pitches, by the constant rhythm of the first floor windows and justifies the reason "a gelosia" of the ground floor bricks.

This confirms the view of the previous farm building especially for the chimneys external brickwork that always have the bakery at rural landscape. The full height entrance porch extends to the upper floor in a lodge that goes to frame an adult walnut-tree, protagonist of the large garden; another northern lodge defines the classical façade dialoguing with the depth of the fields.

The driveway and pedestrian access to the house is axial to the existing pine and oak, while access to the cultivated fields is moved almost to the western edge of the lot.

The traditional approach of the project voluntarily hides the contemporary matrix , revealed in the treatment of certain details and especially the interior governed by an unexpected spatial complexity.

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