Villa Sassoli in Bologna - 1979

The image I got on a very rainy 1st of May in 1980 was that of a native hut, surrounded by a wild vegetation, that only in a short part suggested the lines of the construction: born as a swimming pool roofing and its connected facilities it was built around 1970 after Scarpa’s idea. This architectural building, realized with structures made up of prefabricated elements that allow the whole indoor flexibility, had been abandoned a little while after its construction and nobody thought to “reuse” it for that very “repulsion” towards the recovery of what already exists, victims, as we are, of the last dying track of deviant consumerism. And no expert, though already well-known, has ever wanted to try the recovery of a structure, modest and original at the same time, in order to reuse it as a large family fixed abode. For this reason together with an innate passion for matter, I found myself that morning of that rainy 1st of May strolling the humid property where the desolation, the remaining water in the swimming pool and the cloudy and foggy weather gave almost the impression of a lunar setting.

The important intervention points can be summed up like this:

  • Reuse of the swimming pool and its roofing through a system of intermediate floors having structures made up of steel: these intermediate floors were like “suspended levels” both for their slimness due to the used structures and for the used connections ( modular stairs, etc ).

  • The widening of the front glass window: the glass window which covers the entire frontal part, represents a constant element of the relationship Indoor / outdoor, emphasized by the possibility of opening it entirely through a system of sliding tracks; with this opening we get the connection between inner and outer space with very pleasant contrasts, i.e. the first intermediate floor moquette that matches the lawn and the outer nature.

  • The baring of prefabricated structural elements and the creation, on the roofing top, of a shining loophole one meter wide and closed by thermic transparent windows: this hatch in the roof emphasizes the already mentioned relationship between outer-indoor and strengthens the sign of originality and beauty.

  • Solutions about the indoor furniture: they have been numerous from the particular fireplace to the transparent table in the living room that allows the light to pass from the roof to the living room below which was obtained from the original swimming pool- space.

  • To this we add a special chromatism obtained from the matching of new colors: from light blue to old rose for the moquette, from grey to indigo for the walls.

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