Project: Casa Del Masso
Location: Como Italy
Client: private owners
Architect: Marco Castelletti Architetto
Interior + Landscape: Marco Castelletti Architetto
Structural design: Ingeneer. Vittorio Montanini
HVAC: Ingeneer. Vittorio Montanini
Lighting design: Zumtobel
Main Contractor Impresa Biacchi s.a.s. – Plesio (Co)
Landscape contractor Impresa Biacchi s.a.s. – Plesio (Co)
Site Area: 3000 sq/mt
Built up area: 200 sq/mt
Budget: 750.000,00 euro
Cost per sq. metre 1.800,00 euro
Architect homepage: www.marcocastelletti.it

Located in Como, Italy, This modern lakeside house is set on a sleep slope overlooking the street below and boasting an endless view of the lake at its feet. The house can be clearly seen from across the lake. Designed by architect Marco Castellett, The home’s vertical configuration adopts a uniquely Italian architecture style, with a twist of modernism within its unusual profile. A long set of stairs leads from the street to the home’s entrance, which covered by an overhanging hall, and into a glass atrium.

The materials used to build the house enhance the volumetric composition and the difference between the horizontal volume, suspended and completely covered by white marble dust plaster, and the vertical covered with a natural stone called Iragna, laid down in horizontal layers with different length and thickness.

The home’s main floor – a horizontal volume – faces the lake and houses the living areas and bedrooms. The home’s second level – the vertical volume – contains the service wing. This functional and fashionable design is clad in a combination of Iragna stone and white marble-dust plaster, lending the home an authentic yet contemporary flair.

The building stands by the side of the client’s old house designed by engineer Luciano Trolli in 1955, and it takes advantage of a little tract of flat land, as does the original residence. The house is linked to the street by a long flight of steps which wind along the slope and down to the house, which is organised over two floors.

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Posted on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 9:45 pm and is filed under Modern House.
Tags: Italy, Luciano Trolli, Marco Castellett, Marco Castelletti Architetto Structural, Marco Castelletti Architetto, Masso Location Como.