Council Houses A.L.E.R.

Situated at the limit of the old core of Castendolo, a village on the hills situated south of Brescia, the building develops along an ancient stone wall which constituted the fence for the property of a noble palace. The closeness of the project to a new future road led to a solution that would minimixe the exposure of the dwellings to the exterior. The low-cost intervention presents a sequence of five small dwellings that are designed on a plan that relates the kitchen-living room to a space that leads to the bathroom and the bedroom, thus creating two small courtyards in the sequence of the parts.

In the first court the glazed living room opens towards an external patio that establishes both visual and physical continuity between internal and external while enlarging the space through a canopy. The second courtyard presents itself as a secondary space accessible from the kitchen.

The use of brick treated with coloured leveled drafted malt for the walls and the use of Siberian larch for the depot cubes and for the canopies translates the models of the local rural architecture in a ensemble which does not want to be merely historical.