The Housing project in Verona stems from the idea of inhabiting the border between city and countryside with restraint, continuity, and sobriety. Two horizontal volumes, a central entrance, and integrated greenery create a residential complex that engages with the landscape without imposing itself, conveying a sense of domesticity, compositional clarity, and a balanced relationship between architecture and context.
Housing Verona
Design: Massimo Farinatti, Federica Gaidano, Luciano Galimberti
The concept was born on the thin edge where the city stops and the countryside begins to dictate its own rhythm. In this open landscape, made of rows of vines, fields, and expansive light, the architecture chooses not to impose itself, but to blend in with the site with a calm, horizontal, and measured presence. The two volumes that comprise the project seek continuity, not effect; they do not claim centrality, but construct a silent order. The entrance, gathered in a central connecting element, thus becomes a legible threshold, almost a point of balance between the intimacy of living and the expanse of the surrounding landscape.
The materials, the arrangement of the openings, the design of the horizontal bands, and the presence of greenery combine to define a simple yet intense living experience. The roof gardens extend domestic life upward, while the internal courtyard and pedestrian paths create a shared, protected, and profoundly human dimension. Nothing is overt: everything is entrusted to restraint, clarity, and the desire to offer quality without ostentation. The result is a residential complex that finds its strength in discretion and its most authentic and enduring form in its dialogue with the context.
Strategy
Translating an extra-urban context into a measured architecture: compact volumes, horizontal signs, no rhetoric.
Build a clear and recognizable threshold: a central entrance as an element of orientation and identity.
Integrating greenery and environmental comfort: walkable roofs and edge landscaping for privacy, seasonality, and mitigation.
Design
Structure in two longitudinal bodies connected by a central partition that organizes accesses and routes.
Brick base and plastered upper levels: controlled materiality and interpretation through continuous bands.
Terrace coverings and pergolas: extending outdoor living, providing shade, and enhancing usability.
Outdoor spaces for socializing: an internal courtyard, portico, and pedestrian paths designed for a human-scale community.
Results
A distinctive and understated residential complex, capable of interacting with the countryside without imposing itself on the landscape.
Improved quality of life thanks to integrated greenery, protected shared spaces, and usable roofs.
A consistent and enduring image: simple detail, stable proportions, reinterpreted traditional materials.
