The agricultural landscape of the Verona area is an orderly pattern: cultivated fields, rows of vines, rural roads, and a light that, season after season, redraws distances. In this context, the project fits like a measured episode, rooted in the landscape without imposing itself. The house unfolds in a sequence of sober volumes, organized to create thresholds, courtyards, and depths; verticality is entrusted to an emerging body that serves as a point of orientation and a lookout, without interrupting the predominantly horizontal layout.
Villa Verona
Design: Massimo Farinatti, Federica Gaidano, Luciano Galimberti
The materials contribute to a clean language: mineral and plastered surfaces, metal inserts, and wooden elements that define shadows and measure the openings. Large windows and horizontal openings create continuity between interior and exterior, while the courtyard with water and porticoes creates a protected domestic space, where weather and light become the design's primary focus.
Natural light, filtered and often grazing, is the primary compositional tool: it flows over textures, accentuates edges, makes geometry legible, and gives depth to elevations. The result is a lasting balance between built environment and landscape, where architecture seeks not the exception, but the everyday quality of space.
Strategy
Rooted without gesture: inserting itself into the Veronese plain with a measured architecture, closer to the continuity of the landscape than to formal exception.
Horizontality as a rule: favoring a relaxed development, capable of building a stable relationship with the agricultural horizon and with the scale of the site.
Thresholds and depths: organizing volumes to generate courtyards, porticos, and passageways, transforming the exterior into part of domestic life.
Light as a design material: using natural light, often grazing, to make geometry legible, measure openings and define the atmosphere.
Material simplicity: choose a simple vocabulary (stone/plaster, metal inserts, wood) as a tool for durability and coherence.
Design
Composition by volumes: a sequence of compact bodies defines calibrated solids and voids; an emerging volume introduces verticality as orientation and a belvedere, without denying the prevalence of the horizontal.
Courtyard with water: the courtyard/pool becomes a spatial and climatic device, a protected place that orders the fronts and creates a collected domesticity.
Interior-exterior continuity: large windows and horizontal cuts extend the gaze and the light, while porticos and pergolas create shade and thresholds.
Controlled chiaroscuro: mineral textures and plastered surfaces work with grazing light to give depth to elevations and precision to edges.
Detail as a measure: metal and wood are not ornaments, but tools for defining thicknesses, shadows, joints, and hierarchies of openings.
Results
Balance between home and countryside: a coherent insertion into the landscape, capable of taking root without imposing itself, maintaining a discreet and recognizable presence.
Everyday quality of space: visual and spatial comfort achieved through thresholds, courts, and depths, with an intentional use of light and shadow.
Architectural legibility: clear geometries, ordered volumes, and controlled proportions make the project stable over time, beyond fashion.
Experience the outdoors as a room: porches, pergolas, and courtyards transform the outdoors into a natural extension of the living space, with varying degrees of privacy.
Consistency of language: essential materials and calibrated details create a sober identity, aligned with the nature of the context and the client.
