Elogio Del Grigio House
Elogio del Grigio House
Antonino Cardillo
ARCHITECTS
Antonino Cardillo
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Giampaolo Piva
QUANTITY SURVEYOR
Massimo Maggi
CONSTRUCTION TEAM
Giovanni Lancini, Giovanni Locatelli, Andrea Pennati
YEAR
2023
LOCATION
Castiglione Delle Stiviere, Italy
CATEGORY
Houses
This house, built on the outskirts of Castiglione delle Stiviere, on the slope of a moraine hill to the south of Garda, is inspired by the image of the fog-bound lake.
Its frontage appears in the form of a miniature palazzo, a symmetry of elongated openings, an entrance arch, and a hipped roof. In the manner of an ancient pianura dwelling, this dominates the side of the building facing the sunset.
According to Hegel, consciousness is a discernment of greys. And this architectural design is a journey around a truth. The Soul of this house, therefore, is arranged for listening to that which is unsaid.
In the interior, a living room measuring 10.1x4.36x5.23 meters reunites distant echoes, extending the geography of a place in times seemingly far-off: the rectangular cuspidate rooms of Marrakesh, window panes somewhere between Venetian windows and the marble hammams of Istanbul crossed by hidden waters.
The living room of the house of greys is thus a mutable constellation of imaginaries. Its idea forms inhabit a diaphanous space.
Tonal gradients link and distinguish in equal measure, conferring that psychological character of the Wagnerian leitmotiv that weaves subtexts.
So, through the acquired faculty of a conversation, the virtue of the grey reconstructs an architecture of chromaticisms.
