The project: house in poplar
Architects: MIDE Architects
Location: Scorzy, Italy
space: 5,274 SF
photos by: Alessandra Bello
House in Poplars by MIDE Architects
Aiming to enhance the rural context, the contemporary residential project The House in the Poplar features a single-storey, T-shaped building with a double roof and large stained glass windows creating an ever-changing atmosphere. Its roof is made of wood beams reclaimed from old villas, while the exterior walls are rough concrete with a texture that mimics a sugarcane field.
Designed by MIDE Architects, a studio whose Countryside Villa project in Montebelluna and the house surrounded by the Greenery project in Stra are already featured on our site.
Behind the project, there is a desire to enhance the existing context, by reinterpreting the specificity of the rural buildings in a contemporary key. The wide plot, bordered by a stream, made it possible to design a one-story building with a double roof. To reduce the visual impact of the new building, the project incorporates a T-shaped floor plan, allowing for better orientation of the rooms, each with a different destination.
The house is characterized by a deep continuity between the interior and exterior spaces and the generous natural lighting that characterizes the interior spaces: the large glass windows in the living room allow the space to expand, constantly changing during the day.
Designing and building a house in the Veneto countryside means interacting with the construction techniques of traditional rural constructions, choosing specific materials, and invoking forms and suggestions. The ceiling of the living space is achieved with wooden beams recovered from the demolition of the roofs of the old villas. The building recalls the atmosphere of these places and the chromatic color of the surrounding environment.
The materials and surfaces for the project were selected from a careful site assessment. The external concrete walls have a rough surface obtained with special moldings with a print of a cane field typical to be found in the Veneto countryside.
Some of the typical agricultural components, such as the spontaneous vegetation by the verandah and the wooden overhanging roof, are used as devices for protection from the sun. The project integrates traditional and contemporary construction techniques.
— MIDE Architects
