AP House bears witness to the rebirth of an ancient rural hamlet situated on the top of one of the highest hills in Urbino, highly esteemed for its landscape and environment. The new system of buildings stands on ancient remains dating back to Medieval Communes.
Linked to each other on the hypogeum level, the structures rest on a red concrete platform (38 X 20 mt) dominating the surrounding landscape. The core of the houses, which forms a single housing unit, reestablishes a central role to this site in the landscape, restoring a direct and empathic dialogue between new buildings and historical stratification.
The structures, in their stone shell, free from any superfetations such as gutters or drainpipes and in their measured proportions, are offered to the landscape as pure, discreet and silent artifacts recovering their identity and affinity with the rural cultural matrix of the place.
If the project with its architectural compositions and rigor, faithfully interprets the typical formal themes of this Italian region (Marche), in its interiors, in the treatment of the materials, the design of the plant and its furnishings, it wants to vindicate its remarkable contemporaneity.
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PROJECT AP house
ARCHITECTS GGA Gardini Gibertini Architects
LOCATION Urbino (PU), Italy
YEAR 2107
LEAD ARCHITECTS Alice Gardini, Nicola Gibertini
PHOTO Ezio Manciucca
