A Rural Odyssey | Jimmi Pianezzola

The rural house in Veneto is a traditional well-known typology. It is made basically by small rooms, a fireplace, a canopy-porch to live outside, a barn, elements like ante litteram greenhouses.

Clients wanted a healthy construction, a fireplace to cook pizza and bread, a huge porch to host friends (also Wintertime), an open plan at the first floor.

We imagined a journey from Middle Ages to information technology age and back. The house is set as an all-in house like a spacecraft landed in countryside.

According to tradition the building is placed like the typical ones.
Porch and greenhouse are meant to be both solar tanks during cold months and canopies projecting shadows in summertime. Every opening is designed to be well positioned from the standpoint of internal space, view from the outside, internal light and ventilation.

Straw-bales are used as large bricks to close the wooden structure. The plasters are completely free of cement (to promote breathability) and with light aggregates (for example lime and hemp). The building package is cheaper than traditional techniques and ensures very low energy consumption, moreover the production process and the life cycle of the building consume very low levels of the so-called "gray energy".

Structural design: Arpostudio

Construction firms: Casalogica s.r.l.

Photo: Alberto Sinigaglia, Jimmi Pianezzola