Villa Girasole | Marco Merigo

Villa Girasole stands in the beauty of the hills and vineyards of Verona. The house itself has a very strong identity and its own beauty seen from an historical point of view. How could we design an interior and a pavilion that could take the existing elements and potentiate them? Taking a theoretical background from the different modern movements we found that we could improve the existing by considering architecture as an experience, the experience that is perceived through space. We propose ultimate simplicity and abstraction, by using only straight horizontal and vertical lines and rectangular forms. Furthermore, the formal vocabulary is limited to the primary and the three primary values, black, white, and grey. The works avoids symmetry and attains aesthetic balance by the use of opposition. This element of the movement is embodied by the construction of crossing joints in the design. This neoplastic concept of design is applied to the revolving part (workshop+main expostion), the gallery (eating area) and the pavillion (night area+exposition).